A18080:1124
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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The cock / a glorious and proud bird / which will not suffer 1his victory to be hidden / but proclameth it forthwith by crowing: yet if he be overcome hideth him self. Wherein he showeth a great deal more modesty then the D. which although he have never a spur of argument ether to defend him self / or to offend his adversary: yet croweth as high / as if the mastery were in his hand. But let it go / let us see his fight. To that I alleged of Peter / chosen by the other Apostles to moderate the two first actions / 2notwithstanding it be not set down: he answereth / it is wicked to ground the alteration of the archbishop, and our bishops government, continued long, and practised in the best times of the church, without, yea contrary to the ground off scripture. The long continuance / onles they have salt off the word off God to preserve them / argueth they be rotten / and such as caste an evil savour. That they were not in the best times off the church / hath before appeared: whether it have ground out off the word / that Peter was chosen by the Apostles / although it be not expressed: it may partly appear by that disputation upon 20 Math. for if all the Apostles were left of our Saviour Christ in equal authority ▪ ether Peter took that upon him without calling / or else he received it off the Apostles. But the first is confessed untrue: therefore it hath ground off the word off God / that Saint Peter was chosen off the Apostles unto the presidentship in those actions. And as it hath been showed out off S. Matthew 20. that none off them was higher then other: so off S. Peter it appeareth particularly / in that he / and S. John were sent by the college of the Apostles: 3whereas if he had been made chief by our Saviour / and that from the ascension unto his dying day: it had not been lawful for the ⟨p. DCVIII⟩Apostles by making him their Ambassador / to have made him inferior to the residue. I know what the Papists answer in this point: but the D. bank being discovered / I think he will change his creditors.