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…

Likewise for Marriage he cometh back again into the body of the church / and for baptism unto the church door / what comeliness / what decency / what edifying is this? Decency (I say) in running and trudging from place to place / edifying: in standing in that place / and after that sort / where he can worst be hard and understanded. S. Luke showeth / that in the primitive church both the prayers ¹and preachings / and the whole exercise of religion was done otherwise. For he showeth how S. Peter sitting amongst the rest / to the end he might be the better heard / rose / & not that only / but that he stood in the midst of the people / that his voice might as much as might be / come indifferently to all their ears / and so standing / both prayed and preached. Now if it be said for the chapters & Litany / there is commandment given / that they should be red in the body of the church / in deed it is true / and thereof is easily perceived this disorder which is in saying the rest of the prayers / partly in the hither end / and partly in the further end of the chancel. For seeing that those are red in the body of the church / that the people may both hear and understand what is red / what should be the cause why the rest should be red farther of / unless it be / that either those things are not to be heard of them / or at the least not so necessary for them to be heard as the other which are recited in the body or midst of the church. And if it be further said / that the book leaveth that to the discretion of the ordinary / and that he may reform it if there be any thing amiss / then it is easily answered again / that besides that it is against reason / that the commodity and edifying of the church should depend upon the pleasure of one man / so that upon his either good or evil advise and discretion / it should be well or evil with the church: Besides this (I say) we see by experience of the disorders which are in many churches and dioceses in this behalf / how that if it were lawful to commit such authority unto one man / yet that it is not safe so to do / considering that they have so evil quitten them selves in their charges / and that in a matter / the inconvenience whereof being so easily seen / and ⟨p. 135⟩so easily reformed / there is notwithstanding so great and so general an abuse.

Likewise for Mariage he cometh backe againe into the body of the church / and for baptisme vnto the church dore / what comelines / what decency / what edifying is thys? Decencie (I say) in running and trudging from place to place / edifying: in standing in that place / and after that sort / where he can worst be harde and vnderstanded. S. Luke sheweth / that in the primitiue church both the prayers