The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Calling.

The callings un•• the ministry / are defined off in the word of God. For tha[…] • gifts necessary for the government off the church / fall into the offices prescribed in it 462. Where are rehearsed the proper gifts / whereby they are severed amongest them selves. This is also showed / by that it is not lawful / to diminish those the lord hath set: and therefore not to ad unto them cccclxiiij. Likewise by the demand the Pharisees made unto John ccccxxxvj.

THe callinges vn•• the mynistery / are defined off in the word of God. For tha〈…〉 • giftes necessary for the gouernement off the church / fall into the offices prescribed in yt 462. Where are rehersed the proper giftes / wherby they are seuered amōgest thē selues. This is also shewed / by that it is not lawfull / to diminish those the lord hath set: and therfore not to ad vnto them cccclxiiij. Likewise by the demaunde the Pharisies made vnto Iohn ccccxxxvj.

A calling lawful / and yet extraordinary. page xxx••j. The Apostles / Prophets / and Evangelists are evil distinguished / by the D. cccvij. There can be none off these functions now without an extraordinary calling ccciij. The same could not be a bishop / Evangelist and Apostle at once cccxviij. Epaphroditus was no Apostle / in that sense that S. Peter was ccciiij. An ⟨image 354⟩Evangelist could not without his fault be made a bishop much less could an Apostle 321. Timothy was an Evangelist and no bishop cccxij. The abusing off the writers / both old / and new: to prove Apostles / Prophets / and Evangelists ordinary ministers cccxxvij. What manner a men they were / which after those sent forth into the whole world / called them selves Apostles cccviij. Hereupon / we refuse the callings of Archbishop otherwise called Metropolitan / and our kind of bishop / Archdeacon / and dean: as those which taken even for the very principal church officers / have no ground in the word of God Proved / in that they are contained in nether of the places off the Ephesians / or Corinthians / where all the ministries Ecclesiastical are described / cccxlix. ccccliij. Whether refer / that the archbishop and bishop are new ministries ccccxxxviij. Likewise that the first step / to this kind off bishopric / began at Alexandria: and not in Zion or Jerusalem / and that it was after the Apostles times dxlviij. Also the first step of preeminence to an archbishopric / over many bishops: was but a little before the Nicene Council cccclxxxv.