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…

Unto two very good reasons which the admonition useth / to show the inconvenience of making courtesy / and standing at the name of Jesus / and at the gospel / rather then at other names of God / and the rest of the scripture: whereof the one is / that it is against decency and good order which is broken by scraping of the feet / and the other y• it may breed a dangerous opinion of the inequality either of the son of God with the other persons / or of the gospels with other scriptures / M. doctor saith y• it is an indifferent thing / and neither taketh away their reasons / nor setteth down any of his own: this is a slender defence. And it is no malicious dealing / to note those faults which are so general & so open / & yet notwt standing uncorrected or unreformed by those / by whom M. d. would make us believe / that the church is best governed. But I pray you tell me / why do you condemn the serving of two cures / ye allow the having of two benefices? If it be no fault to have two benefices / how is it one to have two cures? for the curate is better able to read his service in .ij. places / than the pastor to discharge his office in .ij. churches. As for the speech of the cathedral churches / either it is nothing / or else it is false. For if he say y• there is either in all those cathedral churches one / or in every of those. 12. churches one / which is able to confute papists. &c. what great thing saith he / which ⟨p. 204⟩sayeth no more of all these churches / then is to be found in one poor house of the university / whose rents are scarce three hundred pound by year? yea what hath he said of them which was not to be found in them even in Queens Mary's time / when there was yet some one almost in every Church / which for fear dissembling / was able notwithstanding to confute the Papists / Anabaptists / Puritans. And if he mean that in those .xij. houses / the worst of the Prebendaries are able to defend the truth against all Papists. &c. all men do know the untruth of it / so that although this sentence be very doubtfully put forth / yet how so ever it be taken / it is as M. Doctor hath rightly termed it / a mere brag.

Vnto two very good reasons whych the admonition vseth / to shewe the inconnenience of making curtesy / and stāding at the name of Iesus / and at the gospell / rather then at other names of God / and the rest of the scripture: wherof the one is / that it is against decencye and good order whych is broken by scraping of the feete / and the other y it may brede a dangerous opinion of the inequality either of the sonne of God with the other persons / or of the gospels wt other scriptures / M. doctor sayth y it is an indifferent thyng / and neyther taketh away their reasons / nor setteth down any of hys own: thys is a slēder defence. And it is no malicious dealing / to note those faults whych are so generall & so open / & yet notwt standing vncorrected or vnreformed by those / by whom M. d. wold make vs beleue / yt the church is best gouerned. But I pray you tel me / why do you cōdemn the seruing of two cures / ye alow the hauing of two benefices? If it be no fault to haue two benefices / how is it one to haue two cures? for ye curate is better able to read hys seruice in .ij. places / thē the pastor to discharge his office in .ij. churches. As for ye speche of ye cathedral churches / either it is nothing / or els it is fals. For if he say y ther is either in al those cathedral churches one / or in euery of those. 12. churches one / which is able to cōfute papists. &c. what great thing saith he / which