The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Those verses off the 22. and 23. off the 25. Acts which you ⟨p. CXCIX⟩allege / show who bore the sweat / in the making of that decree: But yet in that the letters were written in the churches / and not only in the Apostles / and Elders names: and for that the decree ¹is ascribed unto them / by whom the letters are subscribed: it is manifest / that that consent / and subscription off the people / occupied some room in that decree. Nether is that alleged out of M. Calu. any thing against that I said / that the people had to do in it / and gave consent: but giveth as much to the church as I / in saying / the church committed the matter unto the decision of the Apostles, and Doctors: as though it belonged unto the church / and the church / had put it over unto them. It is enough for me / that the churches subscription was there / and that not for a cipher. Therefore although S. Luke / for shortness sake did call it the decree off the Apostles / and Elders: yet S. Paul which gave them to the churches / and which in other places standeth so much upon the authority off the churches / to stop the mouth off the contentious: did not (by all likelihood) omit the authority off the church / to give them the more grace with the churches / unto the which he delivered them.

Those verses off the 22. and 23. off the 25. Actes whiche yow ⟨p. CXCIX⟩alledge / shewe who bore the swate / in the makinge of that decree: But yet in that the letters were written in the churches / and not onely in the Apostels / and Elders names: and for that the decree ¹is ascribed vnto them / by whome the letters are subscribed: yt is manifeste / that that consente / and subscription off the people / occupied some rowme in that decree. Nether is that alledged owte of M. Calu. any thinge againste that I saied / that the people had to doo in yt / and gaue consent: but giueth asmuch to the church as I / in saying / the churche committed the matter vnto the decision of the Apostels, and Doctors: as thowghe it belōged vnto the churche / and the churche / had put yt ouer vnto them. Yt is enoughe for me / that the churches subscription was there / and that not for a cyphre. Therfore althowghe S. Luke / for shortnes sake did call yt the decree off the Apostels / and Elders: yet S. Paule whiche gaue them to the churches / and whiche in other places standeth so muche vppon the authoritie off the churches / to stoppe the mowthe off the contentious: did not (by all likelihood) omyt the authoritie off the churche / to gyue them the more grace withe the churches / vnto the whiche he delyuered them.