A18078:797
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…
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.
printed by John Stroud?, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The reply unto the next section which is contained in the 106. 107. and a piece of the. 108. pages.
The reply vnto the next section whych is contained in the 106. 107. and a peece of the. 108. pages.
For that which is in the. 105. page / and concerneth the surplice / I have answered before. There followeth the interrogatories or demands ministered unto the infants in baptism / for the proof whereof is brought / in the first place Dionysius Areopagita, a worthy cover for such a cup. For to let pas / that M. doctor allegeth the celestial hierarchy / in stead that he should have cited the ecclesiastical hierarchy / this testimony being found in the one / and not in the other: dare M. Doctor be so bold / as to delude the world in so great light / with such babbles as this? doth he think that the author of these books of hierarchies / being so full of subtle speculations / vain and idle fancies / wicked blasphemies / making one order of popes / an other of prelates / the third of sacrificers / and then of monks (some of which orders came not many hundred years after that time / wherein Denis the Areopagite lived) which mentioneth many foolish ceremonies and corruptions (that no other author neither Greek nor Latin stories / nor others divers hundred years after doth make any mention of besides him) I say doth he think to abuse men / and to give them such dross in stead of silver / such chaff in stead of corn / as to make us believe that he that wrote these books of hierarchy / was s. Pauls scholar? for the better blazing of this Denis arms / I will send the (reader) unto that which Erasmus writeth of this Denis of M. Doctors / upon the. 17. of the Acts of the Apostles / where he also showeth together with his own judgement / the judgement of Laurentius Valla. I am 1not ignorant what Nicephorus a fabulous historiographer / and of no credit in such matters (and in those matters especially / which might like or mislike those times wherein he wrote) sayeth of S. Pauls communicating with Denis / and another / concerning the heavenly and Ecclesiastical hierarchy. But because I think M. Doctor be now ashamed of his Denis / I will follow it no further.