A18080:1180
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If the rare preaching off some / be but Mens fault and not the offices: then our Archbishops whether off sinister favour or as guilty them selves / play their parts evil. Considering that divers fault openly in this even the chief point off their office / and have had for any thing I have heard / good pennyworths off it. Where still appeareth how dangerous it is to the church / to lay such weight off the churches welfare in one man. In the next divis. let the reader judge how untrue it is / that there were bishops off 100. churches in the Apostles times. the two next are answered. Whether thes devised degrees / were asteppes for the Pope to clime up, let it be judged off that alleged: and namely off that in M. bBeza / whose judgement is the same with mine here. how this doth not impeach the holy doctrine of the Son off God, confirmed in the Nicene Council: I have cshowed That I do confess here the kind of government by elders to have ceased, or that one Bishop was over a whole diocese, before the council off Nice: is utterly untrue. The next let the reader likewise judge.
Yf the rare preaching off some / be but Mens faulte and not the offices: then our Archbishops whether off synistre fauour or as gyltie them selues / play their partes euil. Considering that diuers faulte openly in this euen the cheif pointe off their office / and haue had for any thing I haue heard / good peniworthes off yt. Where still appeareth how daungerous yt is to the churche / to lay such weight off the churches welfare in one man. In the next diuis. let the reader iudge how vntrw yt is / that there were bishops off 100. churches in the Apostels times. the two next are answered. Whether thes deuised degrees / were asteppes for the Pope to clime vp, let yt be iudged off that alledged: and namely off that in M. bBeza / whose iudgement is the same with myne here. how this doth not impeache the holy doctrine of the Sonn off God, confirmed in the Nycene Conncell: I haue c