The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

And because this place is cited also / to prove that Master Bullinger should think / that the Election 14. Acts / should be made by Barnabas / and Paul: let the Doctor hear what master Bullinger writeth in the page before / saying / That the lord from the beginning gave authority to the church, to choose, and ordain fit ministers, hath been showed before in the second sermone off this decade, by the example off the most eldest churches in the world Jerusalem, and Antioch: whereof the one did not only ordain seven Deacons, but also Matthias the Apostle, the other did set apart to the ministry, the two notable Apostles off Christ Paul and Barnabas: whereunto is added, that the churches off the gentiles being instructed, or directed off Paul, and Barnabas, did choose by voices elders, or governors off the church. Where also he quoteth the same place off the Acts / which is here in question. Thes was I constrained good reader to set down / that thou mightest understand / that the weapons wherewith the D. fighteth against this cause / are not (as he falsely pretendeth) drawn from the ¹godly writers / but ministered unto him by some out off the armoury off the papists / whose they only be. The places which I alleged / prove first that it is usual in the scripture / to ascribe that to the principal in an action / which is common to them with other: then that although S. Luke / had made no mention off the election off the church / but only said / that Barnabas / and ⟨p. CXCVIII⟩Paul chose: yet thereby could not be concluded / that the church had no interest in the election / but only this / that Paul / and Barnabas were the chief in that action. If that be ascribed unto Joshua / which he procured only / and laid no hand unto: how much more may it be ascribed unto Paul / and Barn. which they both procured / and had some doing in? and therefore that example of all is most apt / for that wherefore it is alleged. I perceive there is nothing so clear / which the D. will not essay to darken: seeing he saith / that it rather appeareth, that the people permitted the election off those governors, to Moses. The contrary whereof manifestly appeareth. for after that in the 9. verse / Moses had bid them choose governors:

And because this place is cited also / to proue that Maister Bullinger shoulde thinke / that the Election 14. Actes / shoulde be made by Barnabas / and Paule: let the Doctor heare what maister Bullinger writethe in the page before / sayinge / That the lorde from the beginninge gaue authoritie to the churche, to chuse, and ordeine fit ministers, hathe been shevved before in the second sermone off this decade, by the example off the moste eldeste churches in the vvorlde Ierusalem, and Antioche: vvheroff the one did not onely ordeine seuen Deacons, but also Matthias the Apostle, the other did set aparte to the ministrie, the tvvoo notable Apostels off Christe Paule and Barnabas: vvherunto is added, that the churches off the gentills beinge instructed, or directed off Paule, and Barnabas, did chuse by voices elders, or gouernours off the churche. Where also he quoteth the same place off the Actes / whiche is here in question. Thes was I constrained good reader to set downe / that thow mighteste vnderstande / that the weapons wherwithe the D. fightethe againste this cawse / are not (as he falsly pretendeth) drawne from the