The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

That the pressing off the example off the high priest amongest the Jews, draweth a Pope: I leave to be considered off that before written: especially seeing the high priest was not only governor off the Jews / when they were pa•ed in the land ¹off Canaan: but even then also when (as it is known) they were scattered through out all nations in the world. For as S. Luke saith it to have been / immediately after the ascension off our Sau. Christ: so was it many years before his coming into the world. So that he which will frame an Archbishop by that example / establisheth the Ecclesiastical charge off one / over those which were scattered throughout all the corners off the earth. It would be also observed / how here the D playeth on both hands. For when we reason sometime only off the proportion off the law to the gospel / other sometime off the perpetual law off God: we receive answer that we are Jewish enemies to the liberty of the church. But where there is any thing under the law / coming within a furlong off his cause: he gripeth it for gospellike / and which ought to be followed. I see / that M. Nowel thinketh a Metro poltane may be over a Christian province, as the high priest was over the Jews: wherein / I can be but sorry that all the Godly learned / are not off one mind. As for Hyperius, he seemeth to reason upon a supposition: that if the example off the government off the high priest under the law should be followed (which he before denied): that then a man might conclude an Archbishop over a Province / but not a Pope over the whole church. This to be his meaning I think the D. him self will accord me: else let him tell me what to ²answer to him / that saith: that it is not red in the scripture / that ever any off the Apostles / toke unto him self authority or primacy over the other Apostles / but that a most perfect equality is showed to have been in all: that Christ did prescribe them equal offices in all things: that that manner of dominion which was not in the apostles ³time ought not to have been admitted in the ages which followed. Likewise what he will answer to him / which condemneth as new found orders Archdeacons Archelders and vicars. Whereof the 2. first have (as I have showed) better testimony of ⟨p. DCXXXVII⟩