The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

^dThis argument brought ^ebefore and ^fafter / to prove our Archbishops jurisdiction (that one had care of the whole Province) here is pursued. whereunto I answer here / that care doth not necessarily draw jurisdiction / or rule over that cared for: seeing that there is no minister (I might have said also no magistrate) yea no private member / which ought not to have / and show forth a care / off all the churches which are in Christendom / every one according to the means which the lord hath given. The Prince with his power / the minister with his comfort / and instruction / the private man with the wealth God hath blessed him with / at the least with his prayer: the communion off saints / and fellow feeling in the members off one body / requiring this. Hereof we have example in ^gAurelius / which saith he had ⟨p. DCXXV⟩care off all churches. Bovins a Popish friar / or Monk I well remember not whether / taught in this point in the same school with the D. in esteeming that care off churches implied rule: least the bishop off Rome should be hurt by that speech / expoundeth all churches, all in Africa. Our D. h alleging this place / because in taking care in his sense / for rule with authority / he should ⁵in travailing with the Archbishop have brought us forth a Pope: in stead off all churches, putteth many churches. so that he will never want: for if his places be to strait for his Archbishops measure / he setteth them upon the tenter hooks: if to wide / he layeth them in water and shrinketh them. But what should I stand in confuting this? seeing it is so far off that care proveth rule / and dominion: that it is seen not only in one equal over an other / but even in servants over their masters. As for that that is said / Chrysostoms care restrained here to certain places, can not be understanded off such a general care as comprehendeth all churches: I answer that the care off his own church being properly commended unto him / it is mete that as the churches next do most affect his / bettering it commonly if they be good / making it worse if they be naught: so in that general care over the rest / there should be such dispensation / as to have a greater care over those / then over the rest: as we see in wise Princes / more careful off the borderers / then off those further removed from them.