The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Where I show / that to suppose Peter not chosen by the Apostles / to take upon him the government / is to do him injury: he answereth / he was appointed unto it off God, and lawfully. As if to be appointed ⟨p. DCIX⟩off God / and lawfully / could not stand with the Apostles choosing of him: or their election were not the election of God. For if he mean he was chosen to it by Christ immediately: it is that in question / whereof he bringeth not a letter of proof. But / this judgement of mine hath no ground off scripture, or ether learned, or ancient authority. What ground off scripture I have / let the reader judge off that already / and to be alleged in the next divis. For authority: I have showed that Musculus (whom he hath made his pillar in ¹this behalf) affirming that Peter was in many places the chief, is against him which saith / he was always chief: and for me / as giving thereby to understand / that this cheiftie varied / and was sometimes put upon other. Which is also confirmed by Calvin: ²who in saying / the Apostles gave this unto Peter for the most part, that he should speak first: confirmeth both that he had his preeminence off the Apostles / and that he had it not always. Secondly / I have here alleged the Scholiast / that all was done by common consent. Whereto he answereth / he saith not Peter was at every assembly chosen chief: which is vain. For if all were done with consent: then Peters forespeaking / a part of that which was done / was likewise. What will he say to Gratian / his good expounder? which in this cause is more favourable then the Papists he hath followed / which fetch Peters chiefdom from our Sau. Christ: for he confesseth / that Peter was chosen by the Apostles. Where out off the scholiast I showed / that this ³presidentship off Peter was not done imperiously, with dominion, or power: he answereth no lawful jurisdiction, not of the king him self, is so. Which smelleth off Anabaptistrie / and is before confuted. For if the word (imperiously) which I used / be taken often in evil part: yet may not I beseech you a Prince / do princelike? which is the word the Scholiast useth. may not the higher power do things with power? both which the Scholiast denieth to have been done of Peter. But there is in superiority humility. If you mean that Princes must be humbly minded / I grant: