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…

Secondarily I do see that M. Doctor will not be shackled and hindered from his ministry by a pair of iron fetters / but if he can get a pair of golden fetters / he is contented to be hampered and entangled / from doing the office of ministry committed unto him. For onles these should be the causes which should move him to take the one / and refuse the other / verily I see none. For where as he saith it is a help / & maintaineth religion / in deed that is the reason of the papists which M. Calvin confuteth in his institution. And although it be good ¹and necessary to punish vice and iniquity / by corporal punishments and by civil corrections: yet it doth no more follow that that should be done by the ministers / then it followeth that for that preaching and ministering the sacraments and excommunication are good and necessary / therefore the same is fit to be executed by the civil magistrate. I grant the ministers have also to punish vice / for as the civil magistrates punish lighter faults with some penalty of money or loss of member: so the church and the minister especially with the church / hath to punish faults by repressions and rebukes. And as the civil magistrate punisheth greater faults by death: so the minister with other which have interest / hath with the sword of excommunication power to kill those which be rebellious / & to cut them from the church / as the other doth from the common wealth. And if it be a help to the ministers office / that he should meddle with civill punishments / why should it not be a help unto the magistrates office / that he should excommunicate and other things pertaining to the ecclesiastical discipline? And where as M. Doctor saith they may not be husbandmen / crafts men. &c. & yet may have civil offices / I think far otherwise / that although neither be lawful / yet the one were more tolerable then the other. For seeing after the ministry of the word / there is no calling under the sun weightier / and which requireth greater exercise of the mind / then the office of the magistrate / it is against all reason to lay this heavy burden upon a man that is already laden / and hath as much as he is able to bear.

Secondarely I doe see that M. Doctor will not be shackled and hyndered from hys ministery by a paire of yron fetters / but if he can get a payre of golden fetters / he is contēted to be hampered and entangled / from doing the office of ministery committed vnto hym. For onles these should be the causes which should moue hym to take the one / and refuse the other / verely I see none. For where as he sayth it is a helpe / & maynteineth relygion / in deede that is the reason of the papistes which M. Caluin confuteth in hys institution. And although it be good