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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Tract. 2. and 3. according to the D. Off election of the minister.
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.
Whereas you say that offices off greatest charge are only in the Princes choice: Still you confute your shadow: for I speak off those elections wherein divers have interest / saying that it seldom cometh to pass, that upon one mans report off his ability which is to be chosen: all the rest which have interest in that election, vvill give their voices. What word is here / which giveth occasion to speak off the princes elections / which are made by her self alone? you have therefore picked a quarrel / to speak off the well bestowing of offices / onles it should be some profit unto your self / which you imagined might come by sprinkling off thes fair words: I see no end of it. sure I am / it is no answer unto that / which it pretendeth. For my part / I will not contrary that you speak / of the good bestowing off the offices by the prince: And I am well assured / that some of them be bestowed / of most worthy men. But it is good for princes / to have as it were ears off horn / against such sweet songs as these be: and notwithstanding them / to stir up them selves to greater warns in the bestowing off their offices.
Wheras yowe say that offices off greatest charge are onely in the Princes choise: Still yowe confute your shadowe: for I speake off those elections wherin diuers haue interest / sainge that yt seldome commeth to passe, that vppon one mans reporte off his habilitie vvhich is to be chosen: all the reste vvhich haue interest in that election, vvill giue theyr voices. What worde is here / which giueth occasion to speake off the princes elections / which are made by her selfe alone? yowe haue therfore picked a quarel / to speake off the welbestowing of offices / onles yt shoulde be some profit vnto yowr selfe / which yow imagined might come by sprinckling off thes faire wordes: I see no ende of yt. sure I am / yt is no answere vnto that / which yt pretendeth. For my parte / I will not contrary that yow speake / of the good bestowing off the offices by the prince: And I am well assured / that some of them be bestowed / of moste worthye men. But yt is good for princes / to haue as it were eares off horne / againste suche sweete songes as these be: and notwithstanding them / to stire vpp them selues to greater warenes in the bestowing off their offices.