The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

The Answ. (as his custom is) taketh his pleasure off me / ¹because upon the words off Jerome (this custom was at Alexandria) I gather that it was not in other places. As if it were not manifest that Jerome noteth where it began: and if it had beginning at Alexandria / it was there when it was not in other churches. If it had had further passage at that time; Jerome should ⟨p. DLXXXIX⟩have done it injury in concealing it. For it would have made much for the credit off that distinction. Which I alleging in the next divis. the Ans. saith nothing unto. Nether is there any so rude an idiot / which knoweth not that a notable / or unwonted thing said off one man / place / or time / is spoken emphatically / and excludeth all other. But as the D. will not understand a general proposition / unless it have the sign (all, or every) before it: so he will not understand that any thing is appropriate unto another / unless it have thes words only, alone, &c. And it is clear how intolerable the D. is in his insultations / seeing Jerome in saying that this custom gat ground by little, ²and little, declareth the truth of my collection. And where he answereth to that I objected off the confounding oftentimes off priest / and bishop / that the bishop is a priest, but not contrariwise: he first answereth not to the argument. For this is not to be confounded / when off two things one is verified of the other / but the other can not return / and be verified of his fellow. Secondly / his answer is overthrown by his exposition of the place of Cyprian / which by one priest in the church, understandeth one only bishop in a church. for thereby it followeth / that ether there was but only one priest in the church of Carthage: or else thes words bishop and priest, were all one: so that whosoever was one / was the other. The next division hath not a word to purpose. for authorities are quoted / to prove that the Apostles appointed Bishops in divers churches / which no man denieth: yea I have namely alleged it before

The Answ. (as his coustome is) taketh his pleasure off me / ¹because vpon the wordes off Ierome (this coustome vvas at Alexandria) I gather that yt was not in other places. As if yt were not manifeste that Ierome noteth where yt began: and if it had beginning at Alexandria / yt was there when yt was not in other churches. If it had had further passage at that time; Ierome should