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Name: A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…
Author: Thomas Cartwright

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.

Thomas Cartwright 1535–1603printed by John Stroud?, 1573

[4], 224 p. · 181k words · STC 4712 · ESTC S120563

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The learned writers have thus reasoned against the Pope: that for so much as Apostles / Prophets. &c. are sufficient for the building of the church / therefore there ought to be no Pope. The argument and necessity of the conclusion is as strong against the Archbishop / and all one. For by the same reason that the Pope is cast away as a superfluous thing / for that these offices are able to make perfect the Church / is the Archbishop likewise thrown out of the Church / as a knob or some lump of flesh / which being no member of the body / doth both burden it and disfigure it. And as they say that God gave no Pope to his church / therefore the Pope can do no good / so we may well say / God gave no Archbishop to his church / therefore the Archbishop can do no good.

The learned wryters haue thus reasoned agaynste the Pope: that for so muche as Apostles / Prophetes. &c. are sufficient for the building of the churche / therefore there ought to be no Pope. The argument and necessitie of the conclusion is as strong agaynst the Archbishoppe / and all one. For by the same reason that the Pope is cast away as a superfluous thing / for that these offyces are able to make perfect the Churche / is the Archbishoppe likewise throwne out of the Churche / as a knobbe or some lumpe of fleshe / which being no member of the body / doth both burden it and disfigure it. And as they say that God gaue no Pope to his church / therefore the Pope can doe no good / so we may well say / God gaue no Archbishop to his church / therefore the Archbishop can do no good.

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Neither did God give any archdeacon to his church / therefore he can not profit the church. But it will be said that this argument followeth not / because no mention is made here of the deacon or of the elder / which notwithstanding are both necessary in the church / and therefore that there are functions profitable in the church / whereof no mention is made here. But how easily do all men know / that the Apostle speaketh of those functions here only / which are conversant in the word / and have to do with the preaching thereof: and therefore made here no mention of the deacon or elder. It is said again / that in the Epistle to the Corinth. S. Paul speaketh only of Apostles / Prophets / and

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