The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

That every teacher in the church was called Rabbi: those ¹know / which have any skill in the tongue from whence it was taken. So that what honour the D. can draw to the ministry by that word / groweth no more to the bishop then to all other teachers: and it contained a profession off obedience, in respect off those that were taught / not in respect of one teacher towards an other. If the Evangelists had turned it Lord which I corrected in the second edition) yet the degree off superiority signified by this word Lord must be very small. Seeing it was used by a women off honest ²estate / to one whom she supposed no other but a gardener. Where therefore he would prove that the word Lord given to ⟨p. DCLVI⟩Athanasius by the Synod signifieth some high degree and authority / because the Emperor and his nobles were called only Lords without other addition: he trifleth / seeing it is manifest by that alleged / that with them being a common title almost to the basest sort of men / it had no such honour shut in it as he pretendeth / but was great or small / according to the persons it was applied unto. So that or ever that word will help him / he must show that the bishops then were set in great outward dignity.

That euery teacher in the churche was called Rabbi: those ¹know / which haue any skill in the toung from whence it was taken. So that what honour the D. can draw to the ministrie by that word / groweth no more to the bishop then to all other teachers: and it conteined a profession off obedience, in respect off those that were tawght / not in respect of one teacher towardes an other. If the Euangelistes had turned it Lord which I corrected in the second edition) yet the degre off superioritie signified by this word Lord must be very small. Seing yt was vsed by a women off honest ²estate / to one whom she supposed no other but a gardener. Where therfore he would proue that the word Lord gyuen to ⟨p. DCLVI⟩