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…

The third point in this deaconship is / whether it be a necessary office in the church / or for a time only / which controversy should not have been / if M. Doctors english tong had been agreeable with his latin. For in a certain latin pamphlet of his / whereof I spake before / he maketh the deaconship a necessary office / and such as ought not to be taken out of the church: here he singeth another song. There / because he thought the necessity of the deacon made for him / he would needs have deacons: here because it maketh against him he saith there is no need of them / whereby appeareth how small cause there is / that M. Doctor should upbraid the authors of the admonition with mutability and discord with them selves. But that this office is durable and perpetual / it may appear by that which I have alleged before out of the sixth of Timothy / for the necessity of elders: for the arguments serve to prove the necessity of those orders which are there set forth / whereof the deacon is one. And where as M. Doctor saith that every church is not able to find a curate (as he termeth him) and a deacon / I have before showed / entreating of the seniors / that the churches in the Apostles times / might best have said this / being poor and persecuted / although I see not why the church may not have a deacon or deacons (if moe be needful) with as small charges as they may have a collector or collectors.

The thirde poynt in thys deaconship is / whether it be a necessary office in the church / or for a tyme only / which controuersy shoulde not haue bene / if M. Doctors english tong had bene agreable with hys latin. For in a certayne latin pamphlet of hys / whereof I spake before / he maketh the deaconship a necessary office / and such as ought not to be taken out of the church: here he singeth a nother song. There / because he thought the necessitie of the deacon made for hym / he wold nedes haue deacons: here because it maketh agaynst hym he sayth there is no neede of them / wherby appeareth how small cause there is / that M. Doctor should vpbrayde the authors of the admonition with mutability and discord with them selues. But that thys office is durable and perpetuall / it may appeare by that which I haue alledged before out of the sixt of Timothe / for the necessitie of elders: for the argumentes serue to proue the necessitie of those orders which are there set forth / whereof the deacon is one. And where as M. Doctor sayth that euery church is not hable to fynde a curate (as he termeth hym) and a deacon / I haue before shewed / intreating of the senyors / that the churches in the Apostles tymes / might best haue sayd thys / being poore and persecuted / althoughe I see not why the church may not haue a deacon or deacons (if moe be needefull) with as small charges as they may haue a collector or collectors.