A18080:1219
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.
That both this bishop and archbishop / had their beginning by bare custom: and not by the institution off God / cccclxxxv. dlxviij. These two last points being expressly showed off the bishops / and archbishops: may be easily understanded to be true in the Archdeacons / and deans by that dj. dxxxvj. diiij. It is further showed off the archbishop that h• was not (in steed of Archflamins) instituted by S. Peter (as […] pretended) cccclxix. Where is showed that there were no Ar•••lamins under the Roman Empire cccclxxj. not in England / especially in the time supposed cccclxxij. We refuse them also / for that they exercise dominion. Forbidden precisely unto Ecclesiastical persons 20. Mat. and 1▪ Pet. 5. ccccxxj. ccccxxxj. Declared in the example off S. Peter which had no authority given him above the rest off the Apostles / but was in such respect equal dcvij.
That both this bishop and archbishop / had their beginning by bare custome: and not by the institution off God / cccclxxxv. dlxviij. These two last pointes being expreslie shewed off the bishops / and archbishops: may be easely vnderstanded to be true in the Archdeacons / and deanes by that dj. dxxxvj. diiij. Yt ys further shewed off the archbishop that h• was not (in steed of Archflamins) instituted by S. Peter (as 〈…〉 pretended) cccclxix. Where is shewed that there were no Ar•••lamins vnder the Romain Empire cccclxxj. not in England / especially in the time supposed cccclxxij. We refuse them also / for that they exercise dominion. Forbidden precisely vnto Ecclesiasticall persons 20. Mat. and 1▪ Pet. 5. ccccxxj. ccccxxxj. Declared in the example off S. Peter which had no autoritie giuen him aboue the rest off the Apostles / but was in such respect equall dcvij.
Here are confuted / the ends off instituting this authority. Whereof one is pretended / to assemble rhe Synods / and to propound the matters dcxij. dlxxxij. Whereto belongeth / that of those otherwise equal / it is meet (to avoid confusion) that one by choice of the rest / should rule the action: and that it is not