The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Secondly / the church receiveth greater damage by an Archbishop keeping it in error: then the common wealth by any outrage off tyranny. For there can be no tyranny in the government off the common wealth so extreme / wherein there is not something tending to preservation off it / and consequently off the church. But in the government off an Archbishop fallen from the truth / and in the swing off his uncontrolled authority keeping the truth under: there is nothing but destruction and ruin / without step or footing off the favour off God towards the upholding off the church. Seeing therefore tyranny in the common wealth is not so great an enemy unto the common wealth / as a church tyrant unto the truth: there is better cause to have a Monarchy in the common wealth / then in the church: as that which can not stray so far as the other / from the end whereunto it was ordained. Moreover / the cause why the Monarchy in common wealth can not be condemned / is / for that it is one off those governments / which God hath established / and allowed by his ⟨p. DLXXX⟩word. But the Archbishopric (to let pas that it is contrary to the word off God) it is sufficient in this consideration / that it hath no allowance off the same. For thereupon followeth / that although the abuse off those things which God hath approved / can not destroy the lawful use off them: yet this which hath no further allowance then of the mouth off men / may upon experience off evil husbandry in the church matters / be worthily rejected. So it may be seen / that although the Ans. would make one case off a Magistrate / and archbishop: yet there is as far distance between them / as between heaven and earth. It resteth to show / that the archbishopric hath been so far from nourishing the church peace / that it hath been the knife wherewith all the strings / and knots thereof have been cut in peaces. Against which the Ans. allegeth / first the testimonies off Cyprian, and Jerome. Wherein beside that I have showed / that they help him not: it is before declared / that nether Cyprian's bishop did any thing at all / nor Jeromes (the ordination excepted) but by common consent off all the elders. Not only because they were at making off the church laws (under which wrinkle the D. would hide the excess off the archbishops authority):

Secondly / the church receiueth greater dammage by an Archbishop keping yt in error: then the commen wealth by any outrage off tyrannie. For there can be no tyrannie in the gouernement off the cōmen wealth so extreme / wherin there is not somthing tending to preseruacion off it / and consequently off the church. But in the gouernement off an Archbishop fallen from the truth / and in the swinge off his vncontrolled autoritie keping the truth vnder: there is nothing but destruction and ruine / withowt step or footing off the fauour off God towardes the vpholding off the church. Seing therfore tyrannie in the commen wealth is not so great an ennemy vnto the commen wealth / as a church tyrant vnto the truth: there is better cawse to haue a Monarchie in the commen wealth / then in the church: as that which can not stray so far as the other / from the end wherunto it was ordeined. Moreouer / the cawse why the Monarchie in commen wealth can not be condemned / is / for that it is one off those gouernementes / which God hath established / and allowed by his