A18080:1086
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Yea in the discourse of the Council of Nice / whereon 1the chief credit off the Metropolitan dependeth / he might have red how almost all the Bishops assembled there / had quarrels one with an other. Which when they were not (as doth appear) for diversity off judgement in religion: it is easy to understand / that they were for the causes above rehearsed. And if he could be ignorant of all thes: yet our stories at home / which specify the combats / and going together by the •ares for thes causes / offered unto him a plentiful proof off all thes things. Whereby it appeareth / that this Metropolitaneship was the very apple off contention / in scambling for which / the church was miserably haled in peaces. Therefore forasmuch as the Apostle showeth / that the truth is kept by the bond of unity / and it being most manifest that thes smoky titles off honour / were cause off contention: it followeth that so far they are from that pretended / off being bulwarks against heresies / and schisms: that they were the principal hooks that pulled them in.
Yea in the discourse of the Councell of Nice / wheron 1the cheife credit off the Metrapolitane dependeth / he might haue redd how almost all the Bishops assembled there / had quarels one with an other. Which when they were not (as doth appeare) for diuersitie off iudgement in religion: yt is easie to vnderstand / that they were for the causes aboue rehersed. And if he could be ignorante of all thes: yet our stories at home / which specifie the combates / and going together by the •ares for thes causes / offred vnto him a plentifull proofe off all thes thinges. Whherby yt appeareth / that this Metropolitaneship was the very apple off contentiō / in schambling for which / the church was miserably haled in peaces. Therfore forasmuche as the Apostle sheweth / that the trwth is kepte by the bonde of vnitie / and yt being moste manifeste that thes smokie titles off honor / were cawse off contention: yt followeth that so farr they are from that pretended / off being bulwerckes againste heresies / and schismes: that they were the principall hookes that pulled them in.
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