The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

but if you mean that humility in Princes / will not suffer to command Princelike / in things lawful: I deny it.

but yf you meane that humilitie in Princes / will not suffer to commaund Princelike / in thinges lawfull: I denie yt.

He addeth / that in rule and authority (meaning civill) there is servitude. If he mean to the lord / I grant: and then it is nothing to the purpose. If that Kings are servants unto their peoples / ¹which only can have place here: I deny it / for the cause before assigned. Where we see again how the D. as if he led Princes in a string / maketh them to bear up my Lord Archbishops train. For seeing he seeth it denied him to rule princelike / or with power: for shift off answer he wresteth the sceptre out of their hand / saying the king him self may not do so. if the Scholiast had said that Peter did nothing tyrannically / nothing with oppression / which two are aswell denied unto Princes / as to bishops: then the D. answer would have served. But when he saith / he did nothing ²princelike, nothing by pour: it is manifest he taught / that the rule lawful in Princes over their subjects / was not meet for Peter over the other Apostles. Where he addeth / the Scholiast saith Peter rose, &c. as one that had received the Presidentship of the Apostles: to let pas his translation / which in steed off disciples understanded ³of all the church / hath put Apostles which was peculiar then to the 11. he doth but dally. For I deny not that Peter had received it: but that he had it given off our Sau. Christ immediately / or during his life (both which are in controversy:) there is not a word. Where in the entrance off this divis. he saith / Peter was in all such assemblies the chief, and in an other place / he was the chief in every matter: and for proof saith / the most off the old ecclesiastical writers / in that respect count him chief of the Apostles: it had