The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Where to declare the unlikelihood off our bishops with ¹them in times past / Theodoret bishop 26. years is showed to have had never a halfpenny, &c: his answer is / he professed voluntarily poverty. Whereto I have little to reply / but that the D. for advantage spareth not the honour of his authors: it being a great reproach in so great wealth as the D. supposeth he might lawfully have had / to be so beggarly. The next I leave to the readers judgement. That the office off Archbishop / and Patriarch / by Calvin was nothing but to assemble the Synod / propound ²the matter / gather the voices / &c. I have showed. condemning those names in the general / he must needs condemn them in the particular: for in both those names / the word off dominion is put / which he condemneth. That he condemneth the office with us / is clearer then the sun: and that in divers sorts / first general in that upon the Apostles words (no man may take honour but he that is called as Aaron) he denieth ^ait lawful to set up any government in the church at the pleasure off men, without waiting for the commandment of God and that the church office devised without his commandment, and express ordinance, is unlawful. Whereby appeareth that the admonitions allegation / which the D. ^bother where calleth gross, is in effect as fine as Calvins. Secondly in that he doth in flat words declare / ^cthat the holy ghost took great heed / that one should not so much as dream off principality / and dominion in the government of the church. Thirdly in that he ^ddoth precisely mislike / that any should have pastoral charge over a Province: which he declareth yet more manifestly / when he ^esaith the government of the high priest which was over one nation▪ being a figure off our Sau. Christ, ought not to be followed Whereby appeareth how untruly he chargeth me