A18080:1073
The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright
The second reply of Thomas Cartwright: against Master Doctor Whitgiftes second answer, touching the Church disciplineThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright: agaynst Maister Doctor Whitgiftes second answer, touching the Churche discipline
Heidelberg: printed by Michael Schirat, 1575
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Howbeit admitting that the bishops succeed unto the Apostles in preaching the word / and governing the church: I have 1showed how that is a whip to drive the archbishop clean out of the church off God. And this is here to be observed / that when it is said the bishops succeed unto the Apostles &c. that must be understanded off the Apostles bishops / and such as they instituted. For what bishops have better right to succeed the Apostles / then they? But those were (as I have showed) bishops off singular congregations / bishops which had no superiority over their fellow bishops / as Jerome doth confess. In the end he saith / If I can prove by good authority, that one was governor amongest the 12. Apostles: it shall not seem strange to have an archbishop over a Province. If upon this that one had government of 12. assembled in a particular place / he can conclude that there should be one governor off the ministers in a Province: I can with better reason conclude ⟨p. DLXXIII⟩/ that there may be one to govern all the ministers in the world. For if because one governed twelve / therefore one may govern all in Province: then because one may govern all in a Province / I will conclude that one may govern all in the world. As touching the number off those which are governed / there is not so much difference between the ministers off a Province / and the ministers off the whole church: as between 12. and the ministers off some whole Province. Touching the distance off place / it is as much between a Province / and the whole extent off Christianity: as between a particular place off an acre breadeth / and some Province. Wherefore this reason is more favourable to the Pope / then to the Archbishop. Peters superiority shall be after seen: where also this sentence of Jerome shall be answered. Only here let it be observed / that the Answ. hath borrowed this reason off Pope Anaclete / which allegeth it to prove Archbishops. 2And it is brought also of Pighius against the protestants / which denied that there ought to be any archbishops: as shall appear hereafter more at large.
Howbeit admitting that the bishops succede vnto the Apostels in preaching the word / and gouerning the church: I haue 1