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A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · Thomas Cartwright

A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift, Index

A ſhort Table of the princypall poyntes / entreated of in thys boke / made according to the order of the Alphabet.

A
M. Doctors Anacletus / counterfait.92.
M. Doctors Anicetus / counterfait.92.
There are now no Apoſtles.63.
The churche was eſtabliſhed in the Apoſtles tymes.51.
Apoſtles appoynted no archbyſhoppes / but byſhoppes.92.
Corruptions entred into the church / immediatly after the times of the apoſtles.96.
Apparell of the myniſters.71. &c.
Apparell of mourners is either hypocriticall / or els daungerous to prouoke exceſſiue ſorrow.201.
Archbyſhops & archdeacons names vnlawfull82. &c.
Archbyſhops names are not ſo auncient as they be ſuppoſed.88. &c.
Archbyſhops and archdeacons offyces vnlawfull.83. &c.
Archbiſhops offices as they were in times paſt / hauehave now no place with vsus / and of the ſmall prerogatiue which they had then aboue other byſhops.122. &c.
Archbyſhops not ſpoken of by Cyprian / nor biſhops / ſuch as oures is / but of S. Paules biſhops.98. &c.
Archdeacons in times paſt / how much they differed from oures now.96.
Arguments of authority negatiuely / or affirmatiuely / out of ye ſcripture good: & the vſe of thē when they be drawne from men.25.
B
Queſtiōs about Baptiſme / anſwered.172. &c.
Queſtiōs miniſtred to infāts in Baptiſme.169
Croſſing in Baptiſme / & wherof it roſe.170. &c
Baſile a poore Metropolitane.94.
Byſhops in tymes paſt / moſt vnlike oure byſhops now.106. &c.
General faults of ye Boke of cōmon prayer.131.
Preſcript forme of prayer at Burials inconuenient.200.
Les lamenting the dead / and les charges about Burials / permitted vntounto vsus / then to thoſe vnderunder the law.200. &c.
Buryall ſermons inconuenient.201. &c.
Buryall places / where they were in the olde churches.69.
C
Cathedral churches in times paſt / & thoſe which are now / greatly differ.204.
Cathedral churches rightly called dens / do hurt / & the good which they might do / if they were conuerted into colledges / or houſes of ſtudy.205. & … ▪
Ceremonies muſt be tried / by rules in the ſcripture: and by which.27.
Ceremonies making in the church / belongeth vntounto Eccleſiaſticall perſons.192.
Difference betwene placing Ceremonies in the church / which were not beſ…e / & tollerating thoſe which are already placed.25.
Chauncelers iuriſdiction vnlawfull.188. &c.
Church hath not power to ordayne / whether preaching / or miniſtring of the ſacramentes ſhalbe priuate / or publike.28.
Church muſt not be framed vntounto the common wealth / but the common wealth vntounto the church.181.
Drunkardes / whoremongers. &c. papiſtes / are neither of the church / nor in the church.50.
M. Doctors Clemens counterfait.88. &c.
Communion receiued by. 2. or. 3. (the reſt of the church departing) not to be ſuffered.147. &c.
Papiſtes ought not to bee compelled to receiue the Communion of the Lord: nor to be admitted if they offer them ſelues.167. &c.
Communicants what they be / which muſt of neceſſitie be examined.164. &c.
Wherupon the miniſtring of the Communion in houſes / & to ſicke parſons / roſe.146. &c.
Common bread moſt conuenient for the Communion.164. &c.
Kneeling at the Communion daungerous / and not ſo agreeable to the action of the ſupper / as ſitting.165. &c
Confirmation of children / ought to be taken away.199.
D
Deacons ordayning wt vsus / in part examined.39
Deacons were in eueryevery church.190. &c.
Deacons office / is only in prouiding for ye poore of the church.190.
Deacons office perpetuall.191.
Deacons may not preach / nor baptiſe.161.
Decōſh. is no ordinary ſtep to ye miniſtery.163
Deanes in times paſt / how much they differed from ours now.96.
Diſciplyne and gouernment of the church / … matters of fayth and ſaluation.26
Diſcipline ſtandeth in 3. principall partes.183.
Dyoniſius Areopagita no archb. but biſh.91.
M. doctors Dyoniſius a counterfait.188
E
Elders in eueryevery congregation in the Apoſtles times.173. &c,
Elders neceſſary in eueryevery churche / & of the cauſes of their office.175. &c.
Elders in eueryevery church alwayes neceſſary / but eſpecially in the time of peace / & vnderunder a chriſten magiſtrate.178. &c.
Elderſhip was kept in the church / vnderunder chriſtian Emperors / & in the time of peace.182.
Elderſhip fel out of the church / through ſlouthfulnes / & ambition of the Doctors.182.
Election of the miniſters ought to bee by the church.44. &c
Pretended differences / to alter the manner of election of the myniſters / vſed in the primatiue church / anſwered.49. &c
Election and ordination differ.58. &c
Euangeliſts no ordinary miniſters.63. &c.
Excommunication doth not belong to one mā / but vntounto the church / and eſpecially to the miniſter / and elders therof.184. &c.
F
Standing lawes of faſting / brought in firſt by the hereticke Montanus.30.
Auguſtines and Ambroſes corrupt iudgement of faſting.30.
G
We hauehave more certaine direction by the goſpel / in the whole ſeruice of God / then the Iewes had by the lawe.35. &c.
Greater ſeuerity ought to be vſed againſt ſins / and eſpecially againſt idolatry / vnderunder the goſpel / then vnderunder the law.42. &c
There ought to be no more ſtanding at ye reading of the goſpell / thē at the reading of other ſcriptures203
Churche Gouernment / compounded of all the good formes of gouernment.51.
H
The churches authoritye in makyng of Holy dayes.151. &c
Of the Apoſtles / and ſaints dayes.152. &c.
Of homilyes reading in the church.81. 196. &c
I.
Iames no archbyſhop / but a byſhop / by Euſebius iudgement.91.
There ought to be no more curteſy at the name of Ieſus / then at the other names of God.203.
M
Abuſes in the celebration of maryage.196. &c.
Metropolitane byſhop what / & that the name implieth no ſupertoritye.93.
Metropolitanes very pore.108. 94.
Miniſters lordſhip one ouer an other / eyther in office / or name forbidden.22. &c
In what ſorte / and howe farre / miniſters / are ſuperiors one ouer another.109. &c
The cauſe of want of miniſters wt vsus.40. &c.
Miniſters reuolting to idolatrye / oughte not to be receiued againe to the miniſtery.40.
Miniſters may not exerciſe ciuill offices.206.
O
Officials iuriſdiction vnlawfull.188. &c.
Ordination and election differ.58. &c.
Receiue the holy ghoſt / an vnlawfull ſpeache of the B. in ordaining miniſters.62. &c.
P
Pariſhes not deuided by Denis the Monke / but by the word of God.69.
Prayers not only in matter / but alſo in forme / ought to belike ye prayers of the ſcripture.138
Particulare faultes in oure forme of Common prayer.136. &c
The name of Prieſt / cannot agree vntounto the miniſter of the goſpell.198.
Prophet no ordinary miniſter.63. &c
R
Reading is not preaching.160
Reading & preaching the word / compared.159
Reſidence or abiding in one certain place required of al ordinary eccleſiaſtical miniſteries.60
Reſidence continuall and neceſſary of the miniſter in hys church.65. &c
S
Sacramentes oughte to be miniſtred / after the word is preached.157.
Sacramentes vnlawfully miniſtred in priuate houſes.28. 142. &c
Scripture containing the direction of al things pertaining to the churche / and of whatſoeuer things can fall into any part of mans life.26
Scriptures Canonicall / ought only to be red in the church.196. &c
Singing of Pſalmes in the church / ſide / by ſide corrupt.203.
T
Theodoret a pore Metropolitane.115.
Timotheus and Titus (by the iudgement of the Scholiaſte) byſhops. 91. but in deede Euangeliſts.65
Aug. iudgement of traditions / very corrupt.31
VV
Widowes in the churche / to helpe the ſicke and impotent in it.191
Women may not miniſter baptiſme / and howe this corruption came into the church.143. &c
Womens churching corrupt.150