The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

The Papists say that there may be a bishop of all the whole ⟨p. DLXXXII⟩¹church / because there may be of a province: I / that there can be ²nether off one / nor other. They would establish the Pope by the Archbishop: and I overthrow the Archbishop by the Pope. This is great joining with the Papists. If I would take the advantage off your own words / first that ^athere is the same reason of one over a diocese, and over a Province, and a gain that ^bforsomuch as one was over 12. therefore one may be over a whole province: I need not seek for further defence / as I have there declared. But against this M. Calvin, and M. Nowell be brought: which say there is not the same reason, off one over the whole church, and over a province. let it be so. For the one is a more prouder title / then the other: breaketh in further into the the prerogative of Christ / then the other. And if the church must needs be encumbered ether with Pope / or Archbishop: let us grant so much to the archbishop / that to avoid the Popes iron furnaces / we would be content to grind in his mill: and to a void the scourge off the one / pass by the whip off the other: yet hereof followeth not / but that it is true I have set down. For although they are not in all points a like / nor every reason which concludeth the one / concludeth the other: it hindereth not but there are certain reasons / which conclude both a like.

The Papistes saie that there maie be a bishop of all the whole ⟨p. DLXXXII⟩¹church / because there may be of a prouince: I / that there can be ²nether off one / nor other. They would establishe the Pope by the Archbishop: and I ouerthrowe the Archbishop by the Pope. This is great ioining with the Papistes. If I woulde take the aduantage off your owne wordes / firste that