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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.
For the Westmorland Minister: I do / not here appoint any certain particular rule / although I doubt not / there are many ways / which the churches upon the present occasion / shall be able to take: but it is answered before in general / that what way soever the bishop may take / for his knowledge: the same may the church. You tell me often / that it is no matter what I think off this, or that: and I desire not / that any man should weigh what I say / further then it hath weight off the word off God. Which rule if it be kept / in the examination of yours also / as I doubt not it wilt we shall not need to fear any great pray you shall carry away at this meeting.
For the Westmerlande Minister: I doo / not here appointe any certeine parlicular rule / althoughe I doubte not / there are many wates / which the churches vpon the persente occasion / shalbe able to take: but it is answered before in generall / that what way soeuer the bishop may take / for his knowledge: the same may the churche. Yow tell me often / that it is no matter what I thinke off this, or that: ād I desire not / that any man should weighe what I saie / further then it hath weight off the word off God. Which rule if it be kepte / in the examination of yours also / as I dowbte not it willt we shall not neede to feare any great praie yow shall carrie away at this meetinge.
I have showed in part / and more also will appear / how the reformed churches agree with us. And I am assured / that he can not bring one example off any other church which professeth the gospel / where the elections off the ministers / depend upon the pleasure of one.
I haue shewed in part / and more also will appeare / how the reformed churches agree withe vs. And I am assured / that he can not bringe one example off any other church which professeth the gospell / where the elections off the ministers / depend vpon the pleasure of one.