A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…

Galerianus Maximinus the Emperor to the end that he might promote the ¹Idolatry and superstition whereunto he was addicted / chose of the choicest magistrates to be priests / and that they might be in great estimation gave each of them a train of men to follow them. And the christians and christian Emperors / thinking that that would promote the christian religion that promoted superstition / and not remembering that it is often times abominable before God / which is esteemed in the eyes of men / endeavoured to make their bishops encounter and match with those Idolatrous priests / and to cause that they should not ²be inferior to them in wealth and outward pomp. And therefore I conclude that seeing the causes and fountains from whence this pomp and stateliness of bishops have come / are so corrupt and naught / the thing it self which hath risen of such causes can not be good.

Galerianus Maximinus the Emperor to the end that he myght promote the ¹Idolatry and superstition whereunto he was addicted / chose of the choysest magistrates to be priestes / and that they myght be in great estimation gaue eche of them a trayne of men to follow them. And the christians and christian Emperours / thinking that that would promote the christian relygion that promoted superstition / and not remembring that it is often times abhomynable before God / which is esteemed in the eyes of men / endeuoured to make theyr byshops encounter and match with those Idolatrous priestes / and to cause that they should not ²be inferior to them in wealth and outward pompe. And therfore I conclude that seing the causes and fountaynes from whence thys pompe and statelynes of byshops haue come / are so corrupt and naught / the thing it selfe which hath rysen of such causes can not be good.

1. 1Euseb. 8. cap. 15
2. 2Luke. 16. 15.