A18080:1130
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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Where I show that James ruled the action Act. 15. and not Peter, considering that he pronounced the sentence whereunto the rest agreed: he saith / first that Peter spake before the rest, which is untrue, for there was great disputation off both sides before 1Peter spake▪ therefore it must needs be / that the cause was propounded by some before. And so it is frivolous he allegeth out off Calvin / to prove Peter prolocutor, for that he stood upon this especially that he might declare the state of the question. as if the Apostles Synod were so confused / that a great part of it was spent / or ever the company were informed of the state off the question. Whereas Calvin meaneth / that S. Peter confirmed pithily / the truth in that question: and not that he travailed to show wherein the question consisted / as appeareth by Peters ⟨p. DCXII⟩whole oration. So that Saint Peters oration is first set down / not for that he spake first: but for that he was the first amongest the Apostles / and Elders / which S. Luke thought good to commit to writing. It is also childish that Peter was moderator, because he spake after there was great disputation: as if every one which cometh between two parties striving to draw them to concord / hath authority over them: considering that there is not a word in Peters oration / which giveth the least inkling off such authority. beside that to help him self / he shamefully slandereth 2the Apostles Synod / attributing unto it a tumult, and bitter contention: where S. Luke saith only great disputation, which may well be without both. Whether it be custom off Synods for the moderator to speak last / and so to pronounce the sentence gathered upon the former voices: I leave it to the judgement off the reader / referring him also to that the bishop writeth in this behalf: who proveth (against Harding / which will have Peter 3chief) that James was chief, because he gave the definitive sentence. Whereby also appeareth that this came ether from Pigghius / or Harding / or from some such popish fen.