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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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But still the A. imagineth off the church as off dogs / and which receiving meat at the hand off their pastor / turn again 1upon him / and rent him: and not as sheep which hear the voice off their pastor. And although there be some hypocrites uhhich do so: yet all the church doth not so. And therefore for their sakes / 2and for the giving the deeper root off love in their hearts towards the pastor: it is meet that this way off free consent should be taken. As for the Hypocrites / when they shall cease to love their pastors / for rebuking their faults: that shall be to the increase of God's glory. Forsomuch as they are by so much more inexcusable before God: as they have refused his admonition / whom they them selves chose for that purpose. And not that only / but the hatred conceived off that duty off the minister / shall be bridled / and holden in rather by ••e remembrance off the judgement / which he once in token off good will gave off him. For even the earthly / and natural man hath this in him / that whom he hath once loved: him if he hate afterward / onles it be for some thing apparently worthy off hatred / he will be loth to utter it. And although for that his manners please him not / he can not love him yet lest he should appear inconstant / and deceived in his choice: he will pretend to love him still. So that the consent off the church in the election of the ministry / being profitable unto the godly / and those which are true sheep / that their love may abound towards their minister ⟨p. CCXXXI⟩/ and in respect off the Hypocrites / and goats / that they may be more inexcusable before God / and less hurtful to men: thes reasons stand still untouched off the A.
But still the A. imagineth off the churche as off dogges / and which receiuinge meate at the hand off their pastor / turne againe 1vpon him / and rēt him: and not as sheepe vvhich heare the voice off their pastor. And althowghe there be some hypocrites vhhich doo so: yet all the church doth not so. And therfore for their sakes / 2