The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

The Adm. reason you are not able to stir. For if S. Paul. For avoiding suspicion in a money matter, did communicate the election with ¹the churches: why should he not to avoid suspicion, off partiality / ambition / and tyranny / communicate with them the election off the ministers? Surely he was as far from suspicion off this covetous treachery with all men: as from suspicion off these faults. And so much farther / as such excellent wits / and learning as was in him / are easier overcome off those other vices / then off this pilfering off money: which the grosser / and unlearned sort for the most part offend in. Na why should not S. Paul be in fear off this money suspicion / if he had taken upon him the election off the ministers / shutting out the churches? Do you ⟨p. CCX⟩think that those which would have done him that injury / to think that he would have turned the church money unto his ²own use (which often times with his own hand earned both his own living / and others too / which refused the wages which he might justly have challenged) would not also have suspected him off the same fault / if he had chosen the ministers at his pleasure / without consent off the church? Or do you not think that there are many / which suspect divers off the Bishops that way: which say that for a dish of fruit of the golden gaiffe / they lease out / and make all manner off merchandise of the Lords orchards: that he which hath no gift in his heart / yet if he have a gift in his hand / need no other key to open the church door / and enter into a benefice? If therefore for the avoiding of suspicion of corruption by money / it was needful for Saint Paul / to communicate the election off such ministers with the church: how much more was it needful / for the avoiding off both the suspicion off that vice / and divers others / he should do the like in the ordinary ministers? And if that where needful in S. Paul / for upholding off his honest estimation to the greater fruit off the gospel: I say as I said / what Archbishop shall dare take upon him the making off a minister, without consent off the church? For if Saint Pauls innocency of life / which (as the diamond a pebble stone) might shame all the Archbishops that live this day / had need off this aide:

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