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…

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 ⟨p. 14⟩preached in England / and by those also that are not of the same judgement / that the Admonition to the Parliament is of. But if it be said / that it is not generally of every one of them / and in all points / or not so often / or not there / where their duty bindeth them / and they are called unto / or not so sincerely / or without mixture / as it ought to be / then there is nothing said / but that / which we fear / may be too easily proved.