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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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:581p. 112

Now M. Doctor may see by this / that Titus (by the judgement of the Scholiast) was not as he fancieth / the archbishop of all Crete / but that he had one flock / whereupon (for the time he was there) he attended. And that where it is said he ordained ministers / it is nothing else / but that he was the chief and the moderator in the election of the ministers / as I have declared before by many examples. And it is no marvel / although the rest granted him this preeminence / when he had both most excellent gifts / and was a degree above the pastors / being an Evangelist.

Now M. Doctor may see by this / that Titus (by the iudgement of the Scholiaste) was not as he fansieth / the archbyshop of all Crete / but that he had one flocke / whervpon (for the time he was there) he attended. And that where it is sayd he ordained ministers / it is nothing else / but that he was the cheefe and the moderator in the election of the ministers / as I haue declared before by many examples. And it is no maruell / although the rest graunted hym thys preheminence / when he had both most excellent gifts / and was a degree aboue the pastors / being an Euangelist.

:582p. 112–113

Unto the place of Timothy / where he willeth him not to admit an accusation against an elder under two or three witnesses / I answer as I have done before to the place of Titus / that is / that as the ordination of the pastors is attributed unto Titus and Timothy / because they governed and moderated that action / and were the first in it / so also is the deposing or other censures of them / and that for as much as he writeth his epistles unto Timothy & Titus / he telleth them how they should behave them selves in their office / and doth not shut out other from this censure and judgement. And it is more agreeable to the inscription of the epistles / that he should say (admit not thou / or ordain not thou) writing unto one / then if he should say (ordain not ye / or admit not ye) as if he should write to many / for so should neither the ending agree with the beginning / nor the midst with them both. And if this be a good rule / that because Paul biddeth Timothy and Titus to judge of the faults of the pastors / and to ordain pastors / ⟨p. 113⟩

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