A18078:891
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.
From the. 151. page unto the. 171. page / all is answered where these things which are here joined / are severally handled / now unto that in the. 171. and. 172. pages.
From the. 151. page vnto the. 171. page / all is answeared where these things which are heere ioyned / are seuerally handled / now vnto that in the. 171. and. 172. pages.
I answer / ye although it be meet / that as we hope that the homilies which are made already be godly / so those that shall be made hereafter / shall be likewise: yet considering the mutability of men / and that oftentimes to the worse / it is not meet / nay it is merely unlawful / to subscribe to a blank / seeing that we can not witness or allow of those things which we have not seen nor heard. The place unto the Corinthians / is the same unto the Romans / and M. Doctor approving one / hath no cause to find fault with the other. For the homilies first of all I have showed / how absurd a saying / and how unlike a divine it is / to match reading of homilies / with preaching of sermons. For if the reading of the holy scriptures is nothing so fruitful as the preaching of them / much less is the reading of homilies to be for their fruit matched with preaching of sermons. There remaineth that I show briefly / that neither the homilies nor the Apocrypha / are at all to be red in the church. Wherein first it is good to consider the order which the Lord kept with his people in times past / when he commanded 1that no vessel / nor no instrument either besom / or flesh hook / or pan. &c. should come into the temple / but those only which were sanctified / & set apart for that use. And in the book of Numbers / he will have no other trumpets blown 2to call the people together / but those only which were set apart for y• purpose. What should the meaning of this law be? The matter of other common vessels & trumpets / was the same oftentimes which theirs was / the same form / also & the other besoms and hooks / and trumpets able to serve for the uses of sweeping and