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…

several rewards / which thing being of the service book well abolished in certain other things / I cannot see what good cause there should be / to retain it in this and certain other. Now whereas m. D. saith that the place of the. 15. of the Acts alleged by the admonition / maketh nothing against this / he should have considered / that if it be a Jewish ceremony (as they suppose it / ) it is to be abolished utterly. For it being showed there ye all the ceremonial law of Moses is don away through our saviour Christ / this also a part thereof must needs be therein comprised. And whereas he saith / that it being nothing else but a thanks giving for her deliverance / can not be therefore but christian & very godly / I answer ye if there should be solemn and express giving of thanks in the church for every benefit / either equal or greater than this / which any singular person in the church doth receive / we should not only have no preaching of the word / nor ministering of the sacraments / but we should not have so much leisure as to do any corporal or bodily work / but should be like unto those heretics / which were called of the Syriac word Messalians, or continual ¹prayers / & which did nothing else but pray. For the Psalm. 121. spoken of in the 155. page / it being showed that it is not meet to have any such solemn thanks giving / it is needless to debate of the Psalm / wherewith the thanks giving should be made. And whereas in. 101. and. 102. pages unto the admonition / objecting that the coming in the veil to the church more then / then at other times / is a token of shame or some folly committed / M. D. jestingly leaveth the matter to the women's answer. A little true knowledge of divinity would have taught him / that the bringing in or usurping without authority any ceremony in the congregation / is both an earnester matter / then may be jested at / and a weightier then should be permitted unto the discretion of every woman / considering that the same hath been so horribly abused in time of popery.

seueral rewards / which thing being of ye seruice boke wel abolished in certain other things / I cānot see what good cause there shuld be / to retain it in this and certain other. Now wheras m. D. saith yt the place of the. 15. of the Acts alledged by the admonition / maketh nothing against this / he shuld haue considered / that if it be a Iewish ceremony (as they suppose it / ) it is to be abolished vtterly. For it being shewed there ye all the ceremonial law of Moses is don away through our sauior Christ / this also a part thereof must nedes be therin comprised. And whereas he saith / that it being nothing els but a thanks geuing for her deliuerance / can not be therfore but christian & very godly / I answer ye if there shuld be solemne and expres geuing of thanks in the church for euery benefit / eyther equal or greater thē thys / whych any singular person in the church dothe receiue / we should not only haue no preaching of the word / nor ministring of the sacramēts / but we shuld not haue so much leysure as to do any corporal or bodily worke / but shuld be like vnto those heretikes / which wer called of the Syriake word Messalians, or continual