The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Caput 3.

Unto the first division / I have answered. In the second / to ¹prove that Cyprian speaketh off an Archbishop / the D. concludeth thus. it is the principal office of the archbishop, to provide that peace, and unity be kept in the church, &c. but the office off him whom Cyprian describeth, is to keep peace in the church: therefore Cyprian speaketh of an archbishop. This argument is caste in the same mould that those / which he hath untruly compared my reason unto before: ²and it hath almost more faults / then words. But that the simplest may see his dealing / it is to be understanded / that as the pretence off institution off the Archbishop was to keep peace / and suppress schisms: so the only pretence off translating the name off bishop / from many in one church unto one only / was the same: as appeareth by the place off Jerome after ³discussed. To let pass therefore that I have proved / and will after more appear / that there was then nether Archbishop / nor Metropolitan / and for disputation sake to imagine Archbishops then: yet when both the name / and office Cyprian speaketh of / agree unto him which governeth in every church / or (to speak as the D. speaketh) diocese: and the office only without the name / agreeth to the Archbishop: it must needs be meeter •o refer Cyprian's words to the Bishop / then to the Archbishop / seeing that there be more cords off reasons to pull them that ways / then the other. At the least it is clear / that the Argument off the A. is faulty: seeing it was not only the principal office off the Archbishop / to provide for peace / &c. but the same also was the principal office off the Bishop / as that under pretence whereof / that kind off Bishop was instituted.