A18080:518
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It is an easy thing for M. D. Which neither proveth / 1nor improveth any thing by scripture / to ask by what scripture prove, that if the parish choose an unfit minister: the ministers, and elders of the churches should advertise, &c. The scripture I prove it by is / that Saint Paul when he teacheth that all the faithful are members off one mystical body off Christ / which ought to have a mutual 2care one off an other: laid the foundations off this polity. for as in the body off one particular church / every faithful man compared with an other in the same / is a member one off another: so in a more general body off a whole Realm / every particular church compared with other / is likewise member of them. therefore as nature teacheth my hand to help the disorder which is in another part of my body: so the spirit of God out of his word / through a fellow feeling teacheth one church to stretch out her hand / to put a way as it can / the evil which it seethe approach unto another. And therefore when the scripture willeth 3that one should admonish another / it is not only a commandment to every singular man / towards his fellow: but also to one whole company / towards another society.
Yt is an easye thinge for M. D. Which neither proueth / 1nor improueth any thinge by scripture / to aske by what scripture proue, that if the parishe choose an vnfitt minister: the ministers, and elders of the churches should aduertise, &c. The scripture I proue yt by ys / that Saint Paule when he teacheth that all the faithfull are members off one misticall body off Christe / which owghte to haue a mutuall 2care one off an other: laide the foundations off this politie. for as in the bodie off one particular church / euery faithfull man cōpared with an other in the same / is a member one off a nother: so in a more generall bodie off a whole Realme / euerie particular churche cōpared with other / is likewise member of them. therfore as nature teacheth my hande to helpe the disorder which is in another parte of my bodie: so the spirite of God owte of his worde / throwghe a fellow feelinge teachetche one churche to stretche owte her hande / to put a waie as yt can / the euill vvhich yt seethe approche vnto another. And therfore when the scripture willeth