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…

Our saviour Christ therefore with his household / observeth this law / and for because he would declare that the passover had his end / and that his holy sacrament of the supper should come in place thereof / he doth forthwith celebrate it in the same place. Which if he had not done / neither could he have done it at all (the hour of his apprehension then approaching) neither should it so lively have appeared / that either the passover was abolished / or that the supper came in place of it / being celebrated both at an other time / & in an other place. For the celebrating of the supper in houses in the Apostles times / and in Justin's and Tertullians times / which were times of persecution / I have spoken before / where also I declared that such houses for the time are not private but public.

Our sauiour Christ therfore with hys housholde / obserueth thys law / and for because he would declare that the passeouer had hys ende / and that hys holy sacrament of the supper should come in place thereof / he doth forthwith celebrate it in ye same place. Which if he had not done / neyther could he haue done it at al (the houre of hys apprehension then approching) neyther should it so liuely haue appeared / that eyther the passeouer was abolyshed / or that the supper came in place of it / being celebrated both at an other tyme / & in an other place. For the celebrating of the supper in houses in the Apostles tymes / and in Iustins and Tertullians tymes / which were tymes of persecution / I haue spoken before / where also I declared that such houses for the tyme are not priuate but publike.

And these are his reasons wherewith he would prove / that the sacraments / and therefore also the sacrament of baptism / may be ministered in a private house. He hath certain other to prove that women may baptise / whereof the first is in the. 93. page / and that is / that Sephora Moses wife / circumcised her child / whereunto I have answered partly before / that particular examples / especially contrary to general rules / are not to be followed / and will further answer / if I first admonish the reader / whereupon this baptism of midwives and in private houses rose / that when we know of how rotten a stock it came / the fruit it self may be more loathsome unto us. It first therefore rose upon a false interpretation of the place of S. John. Unless a man be borne again of water & of the spirit,