A18080:457
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
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And where it is supposed / that the church hath leave to oppose against him that is to be elected: I have showed how manifest mockery it is / off the church off God. As for that which is said off master Bulling. and Master Calvin jointly / that they have affirmed off the signification off the word as much as he: it is a manifest untruth. For master Calvin never affirmed / that the scripture ever used that word, to note the ceremony off laying on off hands. Off M. Bullinger it hath been before spoken.
And where yt is supposed / that the churche hathe leue to oppose againste him that is to be elected: I haue shewed howe manifeste mockerie yt is / off the churche off God. As for that whiche is saied off maister Bulling. and Maister Caluin iointly / that they haue affirmed off the significatiō off the worde as muche as he: yt is a manifeste vntrwthe. For maister Caluin neuer affirmed / that the scripture euer vsed that worde, to note the ceremonie off layinge on off handes. Off M. Bullinger yt hathe bene before spoken.
There followeth in this second rank Oecunemius / whose testimony is so flat against the Ans. signification off the word lifting up off hands, and therefore also against the sole election off the bishop: as a clearer could not be required. His words be thes / it is to be noted, that the disciples with fasting, and 1prayers did make elections by voices. Now seeing by the word disciples Saint Luke / and the Scholiast following him / continually through the story of the Acts / note the people which believed: it is manifest that the Scholiast doth both conclude upon this place / that the people did choose: and concludeth it also of the word / lifting up off hands. Whether in attributing the same word unto Paul / and Barnab. he mean thereby the ceremony off imposition off hands: I will not (as in a thing not worth the travail) stand. It is enough for me to have showed / how this testimony maketh directly against that / which the Doctor affirmeth: that is to say / that the word lifting up off hands signifieth in this place off the Acts / only the ceremony ⟨p. CCIII⟩