A18080:1115
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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His third answer is out off the B. off Salisbury: which affirmeth that there were archbishops in Jeromes time. But it is to observed / that that assertion off the bishop / proceeded off mistaking Jerome / and some oversight. Which is clear by that in 1an other place / the bishop avowcheth out off Jerome •o Nepotian / archbishops: where there is no mention off Archbishop in any sort. And although the place which the bishop voucheth / be in the Epistle unto Rusticus: yet there is no mention off an Archbishop / as I have before declared. This assertion therefore ⟨p. DCI⟩can not help the D. which hath no better ground. His last proof is Erasmus / who saith that metropolitans have some 2dignity above other bishops: an other of Hardinges bucklers against the bishop in the same place. Where it is manifest / that Erasmus kept his old custom / off carrying fire in the one hand / and water to quench it in the other: and tempered the truth with some leaven off the corruption off those times / thereby to procure safety unto him / and to his books: whilst those which could not abide to look upon the truth barefaced / might at the least bear it being muffled If the Ans. will make his outcries / that I discredit the author when I can not answer them: beside that I discredit not moe then he / I refer me unto the conscience off all men / whether it be true which I have said. And yet do I not say the tenth part / off that which I could allege written off him / by men off excellent learning / and zeal.
His third answer is owt off the B. off Salisbury: which affirmeth that there were archbishops in Ieromes time. But it is to obserued / that that assertion off the bishop / proceded off mistaking Ierome / and some ouersight. Which is cleare by that in 1an other place / the bishop auowcheth owt off Ierome •o Nepotian / archbishops: where there is no mention off Archbishop in any sort. And althowghe the place which the bishop vouchethe / be in the Epistle vnto Rusticus: yet there is no mention off an Archbishop / as I haue before declared. This assertion therfore