A18080:135
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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In the wilderness the church under the conduit off Moses and Aaron / was for the outward face exactly governed ⟨p. XXXV⟩according to the rule that god had given thereof: and yet we read off the 72. upon whom the spirit of Prophecy fell / which was no ordinary calling / as that which endured but for a time as the words of the text (howsoever they be otherwise translated) do declare / which saith / that they added not 1to prophesy any more. When was the church better established according to the rule off the word of god / then in Davids time? and yet then (besides himself) there were diverse extraordinary ministers. For there was the Prophet Nathan / and Gad / with others not off the Levitical order / which only was the ordinary calling off the church. In the new 2Testament the church off Antioch / ceased not after it was established / to have the extraordinary function off Prophets. And onless. M. D. vvill say / that all these functions were unlawful: he must confess that in an established church / ordinary and lawful are not all one. And albeit in these times where there is a church established according to the word off god / the lord doth not use to raise up any such extraordinary ministry / neither is it to be looked for: yet it is a thing which may come to pass / and which hath nothing in the word off god to the contrary. In stead of that you say If any church in England do elect there minister otherwise then the laws off the church doth permit, it can not be excused off schism: you should have said / otherwise then the word off god doth permit. For if it be showed that that order established be corrupt / and the other which they followed in the calling off their minister according to the word of god: then they need not to be afraid off the slander off schism. And where you say such and such parishes must be looked unto, verily they need not therein be ashamed who look upon them. But If ear the look you mean is / to put out their eye in taking away the Minister / that they should be the less able to look unto your unfaith full dealing with the churches off God.
In the vvildernes the churche vnder the conduite off Moses and Aaron / was for the owtward face exactlie gouerned ⟨p. XXXV⟩