The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

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.

Yea if M. D. Would haue a litle laid a syde / his inordinate desyre off mainteining that which he hath once written. he should haue founde / iuster cause of this circumspection in our elections / then in this. For if S. Paul an Apostel / endewed vvith suche a gift of discretion of spirites / would not take Timothy / vvhich had bene browght vpp from his cradell in the knowledge of the Scriptures / and had liued in all commendation from his infancie / Timothe I say / whom he had now knowen (as it may be verie probably shewed) of some reasonable time / into companye of his ministe| ⟨p. CLIX⟩rye / withowt suche diligent circumspection: how muche lesse may a Bishop / in authoritie inferor vnto him / in gifte of discerninge spirites / not to be compared. receyue into the mynistery / vpon the Testymonie off one onelie / a man vvhom he hathe not knowen before / and vvhatsoeuer he be / in knowledge of the word of God far behinde / Timothy? And yt is not to be let passe (for further answere to that which ys alleadged owt of Zuinglius / Of a deede, or an example to make a lavv) that yt hath bene shewed / to haue bene the practise of all the Apostles at other tymes / in there elections: and therfore this is not of one facte to make a rule / but off the continuull practise of the Apostles.