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…

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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Reply › The reply unto the three next sections concerning the seniors / beg…: The reply unto the three next sections concerning the seniors / beginning in the latter…Reply › The reply vnto the three next sections concerning the senyors / beg…: The reply vnto the three next sections concerning the senyors / beginning in the latter…

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:834p. 179–180

To be short sayeth he / when he can say no more / it can not be governed when it is full of hypocrites / Papists / Atheists / and other wicked persons / as in the times of persecution / when there were few or none such. I have showed before / how great want of knowledge it bewrayeth / to say that Papists and Atheists be of the church / and I love not as Master Doctor doth to use often repetition / but if there be now moe hypocrites & other wicked and unruly parsons in the church / then there were in the time of persecution (which I will not deny) ⟨p. 180⟩then there is greater cause now / why there should be seniors in every church / then there was then when there were fewer. For the more naughty persons / and the greater disorders there be / the more aid and help hath the pastor need to have / both to find out their disorders / and also when they have found them out / to judge of the quality of them / and after also to correct them with the censures of the church / which standeth in such reprehensions private and open / and excommunication / as I have before rehearsed.

To be short sayeth hee / when he can say no more / it can not be gouerned when it is full of hypocrites / Papistes / Atheistes / and other wicked persons / as in the times of persecution / when there were few or none such. I haue shewed before / how great want of knowledge it bewrayeth / to say that Papistes and Atheistes be of the church / and I loue not as Maister Doctor doth to vse often repetition / but if there bee now moe hypocrites & other wicked and vnruely parsones in ye church / then there were in the tyme of persecution (which I wil not deny) ⟨p. 180⟩thē there is greater cause now / why there should be senyors in euery churche / then there was then when there were fewer. For the more naughty persons / and the greater disorders there be / the more ayde and helpe hath the pastor neede to haue / both to finde out their disorders / and also when they haue founde them out / to iudge of the qualitie of them / and after also to correct them with the censures of the church / which standeth in such reprehensions priuate and open / and excommunication / as I haue before rehearsed.

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