The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

The canons off Arles Council, off that attributed unto the Apostles, and of Antioch follow. The first / hath nothing not granted / and serveth for filling only. The second / supposed of the Apostles / is ¹the same with that of Antioch. That off Antioch / is first unfaithfully translated / after untruly gathered upon. For where the Council saith / that the Bishop president in the Metropolitan city: should have care of the Province, because all men which have business use to come from all places, to the Metropolitan city. he hath pag. 332. turned the words off the Council upside down / putting in steed off because all men &c. wherefore all men, &c. making that the effect which it maketh the cause / and the cause which it maketh the effect. The Councels meaning is / that forsomuche as men do usually for other business / resort to the Metropolitan city: therefore the bishop of it was most fit / to whom controversies should be brought. He translateth also for parish, diocese: and so in steed that the council supposeth the bishop to have under his charge often times / beside those in the town he dwelleth in / certain villages which resort unto his church / as in Hitchin / and divers other places with us: he to be sure to put in enough / supposeth by his translation / that the bishops had a diocese / and their places beside. If by diocese he mean such as ours: I would gladly know / what those places were / which the bishops had beside their dioceses: when as in the largest spread of bishops / they were notwithstanding tethered within the compass off other dioceses. If by it he mean a parish / such as every minister with us is assigned unto: why useth he diocese, to deceive the reader / especially when the Councells words pulled him to the word off paris he? If he will excuse this later fault / and lay ⟨p. DLXVI⟩it upon the translator of the Councels / which turneth Parish. ²Diocese: he confirmeth at unawares that which I said / that at the first a diocese and parish were often confounded. Howbeit that the Councels words can not bear that signification / as we take Diocese / is before declared.

The canons off Arles Councell, off that attributed vnto the Apostles, and of Antioch follow. The first / hath nothing not graunted / and serueth for filling onely. The second / supposed of the Apostles / ys