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…

Furthermore / seeing the holy days be ceremonies of the church / I see not why we may not here renew Augustine's complaint / that the estate of the Jews was more tolerable then ours is (I speak in this point of holy days) for if their holy days and ours be accounted / we shall be found to have more then double as many holy days as they had. And as for all the commodities which we receive by them / whereby M. doctor goeth about to prove the goodness and lawfulness of their institution / as that the scriptures are there red and expounded / the patience of those saints in their persecution and Martyrdom is to the edifying of the church remembered / and yearly renewed: I say / that we might have all those commodities without all those dangers which I have spoken of / & without any keeping of yearly memory of those saints / and (as it falleth out) in better and more profitable sort. For as I said before of the keeping of Easter / that ⟨p. 154⟩it tieth / and (as it were) fettereth a meditation of the Easter to a few days / which should reach to all our age and time of our life: so those celebrations of the memories of saints and martyrs / straiten our consideration of them unto those days / which should continually be thought of / & daily as long as we live. And if that it be thought so good and profitable a thing that this remembrance of them should be upon those days / wherein they are supposed to have dyed / yet it followeth not therefore that after this remembrance is celebrated by hearing the scriptures concerning them / and prayers made to follow their constancy / that all the rest of the day should be kept holy in such sort / as men should be debarred of their bodily labours / and of exercising their daily vocations.

Furthermore / seeing the holy dayes be ceremonies of the church / I see not why we may not heere renue Augustines complaint / yt the estate of the Iewes was more tollerable then oures is (I speake in thys poynt of holy dayes) for if their holy dayes and oures be accompted / we shallbe foūd to haue more then double as many holy dayes as they had. And as for all the commodityes whych we receiue by them / whereby M. doctor goeth about to proue the goodnes and lawfulnes of their institution / as that the scriptures are there red and expounded / the patience of those saintes in their persecution and Martyrdome is to the edifying of the church remembred / and yearely renewed: I say / that we myght haue all those commodities wythout all those dangers whych I haue spoken of / & wythout any keping of yearely memory of those sayntes / and (as it falleth out) in better and more profitable sorte. For as I sayd before of the keping of Easter / that