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…

But he saith that an archbishop hath not the charge of government over the whole province generally / but in cases exempted / & so may do it more easily: But he should have remembered / that he assigned before the offices of archbishop & bishop / to be in all those things / which other ministers are / & that besides those offices / he giveth them particular charges. So that where the office of the minister is but to preach / pray / & minister the sacraments in his parish / the office of archbishop & bishop / is to do the same / and more in the whole province or diocese. And so it followeth that it is easier for a minister to discharge his duty in his parish / then for an archbishop or bishop to discharge their duties in any one parish ⟨p. 130⟩of their province or diocese. For they have in every parish more to do / and greater charge / then the minister of the parish hath / then much less are they able to do their duties in all the parishes of their provinces or diocese.

But he sayth that an archbyshop hath not the charge of gouernment ouer the whole prouince generally / but in cases exempted / & so may doe it more easely: But he should haue remembred / that he assigned before the offices of archbyshop & byshop / to be in all those things / which other ministers are / & that besides those offices / he geueth them particulare charges. So that where the office of the minister is but to preach / pray / & minister the sacraments in hys parish / the office of archbyshop & bishop / is to do the same / and more in the whole prounice or diocese. And so it followeth that it is easyer for a minister to discharge his duetie in hys parish / then for an archbyshop or byshop to discharge their dueties in any one parishe ⟨p. 130⟩of their prouince or diocese. For they haue in euery parish more to doe / and greater charge / then the mynister of the paryshe hath / then much lesse are they able to doe their dueties in all the paryshes of theyr prouinces or dyocese.

After M. Doctor translateth out of M. Calvin / the papists reasons for the supremacy of the Pope / and M. Calvins solutions. For what purpose he knoweth / I can not tell / unless it be to blot paper / I know not what he should mean / and the quarrel also which he picketh / to translate this place / is yet more strange. For he saith that the authors of the admonition / borrowed their arguments from the papists / when the contrary is true / that they use the reasons which they of the gospel use against the supremacy of the pope / to overthrow the archbishop. And master Doctor doth use reasons to defend the archbishop / which the papists use to maintain the Pope. For M. Doctor would prove / that for because there is one king over a realm / therefore there may be one bishop over a province / and the papists use the same reason to prove the Pope to be a bishop of the whole church. Show now one reason / that the authors of the admonition brought of the papists / to prove that there should be no archbishop. But now I perceive his meaning / and that is / that he thought to get some comfort for the archbishop in M. Calvins solutions made unto the papists reasons for the supremacy: and therefore he hath haled and pulled in as it were by the shoulders / this disputation between the protestants and the papists touching the supremacy. And what is it that M. Calvin saith for the archbishop? It hath been before showed / what his judgement was touching having one minister over all the ministers of a province / and that he doth simply condemn it in his commentary upon the first chap. of the Philippians. Now let it be considered / whether in these sentences he hath said any thing against him self. The papists object that for so much as there was one high priest in Jury over all the church / therefore there should be one bishop over all. To whom M. Calvin answereth / that the reason followeth not: for saith he / there is no reason to extend that to all the world / which was profitable in one nation. Hereupon M. Doctor would conclude that M. Calvin alloweth one archbishop over a whole province.