THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN WHITGIFT, D.D.,

MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DEAN OF LINCOLN, &c.
AFTERWARDS SUCCESSIVELY

BISHOP OF WORCESTER AND ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

THE FIRST PORTION,

CONTAINING

THE DEFENCE OF THE ANSWER TO THE ADMONITION,
AGAINST THE REPLY OF THOMAS CARTWRIGHT:

TRACTATES I-VI.

EDITED FOR

The Parker Society,

BY THE

REV. JOHN AYRE, M.A.

OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, MINISTER OF ST JOHN'S
CHAPEL, HAMPSTEAD.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

vii

3

13

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45

46

ADVERTISEMENT

Preface to the Godly Reader.

Cartwright's Epistle to the Church of England

Answer to the Epistle to the Church

Cartwright's Address, The Author to the Reader

Whitgift's Reply

Epistle to the Church of England

Cartwright's Answer to the Whole Epistle to the Church

Whitgift's Reply.......

A brief Examination of the Reasons used in the book called an

Certain Notes and Properties of Anabaptists, collected out of

Tract. 1. Whether Christ forbiddeth Rule and Superiority unto

the Ministers

148

II. Of the Authority of the Church in things indifferent 175

III. Of the Election of Ministers

296

Of Ministers having no pastoral charge; of Ceremonies

used in ordaining Ministers; of Apostles, Evangelists,

and Prophets....

469

V.

Of the Residence of the Pastor

506

VI.

Of Ministers that cannot preach; and of giving Licences

to preach

538

THE present Volume contains a portion of archbishop Whitgift's Defence of the Answer to the Admonition. Of this there appear to have been at least two editions bearing the date of 1574. The text of one of these, designated Def. B., has been adopted, and that of another frequently consulted. The two editions, bearing date 1572 and 1573, of Whitgift's Answer to the Admonition have been collated; as also the first and second editions of Cartwright's Reply. These are distinguished respectively as (when the readings vary) Answ. 1 and 2 ; and as Repl. 1 and 2. A copy of the Admonition has, moreover, been collated; and its various readings marked Adm. It is in the University Library, Cambridge: it is not, however, the first edition; but another, probably the first, is in the Bodleian library at Oxford, and has been referred to.

There have been added in the notes some extracts from Cartwright's Second Reply, which was a Rejoinder to the Defence. That Second Reply is a bulky quarto: it was therefore impossible to introduce any large portion of it; but the editor has thought it desirable to give the reader some notion of the mode in which Cartwright retorts upon his antagonist. Where practicable, his own words are quoted; elsewhere it has been attempted to give briefly the scope of his argument. The editor has endeavoured to discharge this part of his task with as much impartiality as possible.

The writings of archbishop Whitgift will, it is expected, occupy two more volumes. The last will be accompanied by an index and a biographical account of the author.

April, 1852.

J. A.