The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Why Illiricus calleth him metropolitan, I have showed. He saith I forget my self, which call him in one place metropolitan: they are silly contradictions always which he chargeth me with. For he might have remembered that I said / that this word metropolitan doth signify nothing but bishop off the chief City: in which sense I can easily afford Cyprian to be a Metropolitan / without any great hinderance off my cause / or help off his. I pass the next diu. having nothing but importunate / and shameless begging of things in controversy. As that Cornelius had a province under him, that Cyprian was Metropolitan, that the place off Cyprian is truly expounded off an Archbishop, that I give the Papists advantage, in saying that the place maketh as much for a Pope, as an archbishop, that is to say nothing for ether. Unto the next / I have ⟨p. DXXXIIII⟩answered where I laid open the vanity off his answer / that writers pass by the title off archbishops: saving that it is to be noted / that where the D. hath before affirmed in plain words / that the name off Pope was common to all bishops: here to give some colour ¹unto his answer / he would make us believe that the name off Pope was common not unto all, but to many bishops, &c. what M. Fox saith in that behalf / I refer it to the reader. That the name off Pope was common to all bishops / besides the testimonies I alleged before / may be seen in the bishop of ^aSalisbury / and M. ^bBeza: which both affirm the same.

Why Illiricus calleth him metrapolitane, I haue shewed. He saithe I forget my selfe, which call him in one place metropolitā: they are selie contradictions allwaies which he chargeth me with. For he might haue remembred that I said / that this worde metropolitane doothe signifie nothing but bishop off the cheife Citie: in which sense I can easely aforde Cyprian to be a Metrapolitane / withowte any greate hinderance off my cawse / or helpe off his. I passe the nexte diu. hauing nothing but importunate / and shameles begging of thinges in controuersie. As that Cornelius had a prouince vnder him, that Cyprian was Metropolitane, that the place off Cyprian is trwly expounded off an Archbishop, that I gyue the Papistes aduantage, in saying that the place maketh as muche for a Pope, as an archbishop, that is to saie nothing for ether. Vnto the nexte / I haue