A18080:194
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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Saint Paul grounding him self upon this place off our 1Saviour / doubted not to draw forth the authority he had to excommunicate / against the incestuous man / which was notoriously known to have offended the whole congregation / and Hymineus / which had corrupted the purity off the doctrine. 2And if the A. say truly / that that doctrine off our Saviour Christ touching excommunication / may be carried no farther then to that case off private and secret injuries: then Saint Paul drew the sword / and taught to draw it / where it ought not. And although there be no mention made off the admonitions: yet they must be off necessity presupposed / forasmuch as it was not lawful / to have proceeded to that extremity off cutting off by excommunication: if the offenders had left any place to admonitions / and would have suffered themselves to have been cured by gentler medicines. What also that Saint Paul upon the public admonition which he 3gave unto certain offenders / menaceth them that if they admit not his admonitions / and reprehensions / he will not spare them: doth he not in those words give them the threat off excommunication? And if he do▪ then it is clear / that those admonitions being public / were off public / and known faults / whereby followeth that this rule off admonishing and reprehending / are forerunners unto excommunication / even in public faults. And as he here fighteth against a manifest truth: so he hath himself for adversary: which affirmeth 4/ that against an heretic / both thes two admonitions which our saviour Christ speaketh of / and the excommunication afterward / ought to be practised, oneles he will say / that an heretic which is known to one only / ought so to be handled and that he which is notoriously known / ought to be free from that censure. The place of M Calvin / is altogether from the purpose, for I do not say that private admonitions ought to be applied unto public offences / the Apostle of them giveth order that such offenders should be rebuked openly. ⟨p. LXVIII⟩5