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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.
But that as he hath not done: so he can not do / there being no one step / of any such either particular cause / or general rule / either mentioned / or to be gathered of that place / or of any other scripture. It must therefore be esteemed that S. Paul did that / of a general equity / and common convenience / which ought to be used in such grave / and weighty matters off the church.
But that as he hathe not done: so he can not doo / there being no one stepp / of any such either particular cause / or generall rule / either mentioned / or to be gathered of that place / or of any other scripture. It must therfore be estemed that S. Paul did that / of a generall equitie / and common conuēience / which owght to be vsed in such graue / and weightie matters off the church.
Yea if M. D. Would have a little laid a side / his inordinate desire off maintaining that which he hath once written. he should have found / juster cause of this circumspection in our elections / then in this. For if S. Paul an Apostle / endowed with such a gift of discretion of spirits / would not take Timothy / which had been brought up from his cradle in the knowledge of the Scriptures / and had lived in all commendation from his infancy / Timothy I say / whom he had now known (as it may be very probably showed) of some reasonable time / into company of his ministe| ⟨p. CLIX⟩rye / without such diligent circumspection: how much less may a Bishop / in authority inferior unto him / in gift of discerning spirits / not to be compared. receive into the ministry / upon the Testimony off one only / a man whom he hath not known before / and whatsoever he be / in knowledge of the word of God far behind / Timothy? And it is not to be let pass (for further answer to that which is alleged out of Zuinglius / Of a deed, or an example to make a law) that it hath been showed / to have been the practise of all the Apostles at other times / in there elections: and therefore this is not of one fact to make a rule / but off the continual practise of the Apostles.