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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.
And so do you complain.
And so do you complaine.
Therefore you are Anabaptists / or in the way to them.
Therfore you are Anabaptists / or in the way to them.
I will not lay to your charge / that you have not learned Aristotle's Priorums / which saith / it is asystaton, as often / as the mean in any syllogism / is consequent to both the extremes. But have you not learned that / which Seton / or any other halfpenny Logic telleth you / that you can not conclude affirmatively in the second figure? and of this sort / are every one of your surmises contained in this Treatise / which you entitle an exhortation. &c. And if I liked / to make a long book of little matter (as you do) I would thus gather your arguments out of every brasich which you ascribe / as common unto us with the Anabaptists / as you make ado / upon every place / which is quoted by the admonition to the Parliament. But answer I pray you / in good faith / are you of that judgement / that the civill magistrate should ordain ministers? Or / that there should be no excommunication / which we know was in the primitive / and is used in certain the Heluetian churches? If you be / your controversy is not so much with us / as with the bishops / which both call ministers / and excommunicate. If you be not / why is that Anabaptisticall in us / which is christian and catholic in you? and why do you go about / to bring us in hatred for those things / which you do no more allow / then these / whom you thus endeavour to discredit? We do not say that there is no lawful / or no ordinary calling in England / for we do not deny / but that he may be lawfully called / which is not ordinarily / as M. Luther / Melanchthon / Zuinglius / Oecolampadius. &c. and there be places in England / where the ministers are called by their parishes in such sort / as the examples of the scripture do show to have been done / before the eldership and government of the church be established. I know not any / that saith / that the gospel is not truly