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…

The place of S. Matthew is as strong against women's baptising / as it is ¹against their preaching. For the ministry of the word and sacraments can not be pulled in sunder / which the Lord hath joined together from time to time. For Noah which was a preacher unto the old world of the will of God / was ordained also of God to make the Ark / which was a Sacrament and seal of his ²preaching touching the destruction of the world. And Abraham whom the Lord would have to be the Doctor of his church / which was then in his family / was also commanded to minister the Sacrament of circumcision unto his family. The priests and Levites which were appointed to teach the people / were also appointed to sacrifice / and to minister other sacraments in the church. Likewise the same Prophets which God stirred up to preach / he also ordained to con firm the same by signs and sacraments. The same may be also brawn through out the new Testament / as unto every of the twelve / and afterward to the. 70. power was given / both to preach the gospel / and also to confirm with signs ³and miracles which were seals of their doctrine. ⟨p. 140⟩And S. Paul by the commandment that our saviour Christ gave him to ⁴preach / undertook also to baptise / although there were no express words that licensed him thereunto: for he knew right well that it was the perpetual ordinance of God / that the same should be the ministers of the word and sacraments. Whereupon it followeth / that for as much as women may not preach the gospel / no not by the laws of the realm / that they ought not to minister baptism. But M. Doctor riseth up and sayeth / that a woman in the time of necessity / and when there is none other that either can or will preach / may preach the gospel in the church.

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