A18080:568
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
If you would have done simply / you should have named 1Pighius / who proveth diversity of government off the church / as you do by this counterfeit place of Amb. As for the shift wherewith the D. Would help it / that it was permitted to all men to preach, and minister the sacraments, but not without a calling: it is spoken without reason. For what needed there / or how can there be a calling / when all were used to the service of the ministry? Seeing that calling is a separation from other by election / and election is choice of some / with leaving off other some: And the church of Christ is a body standing off many members / and not all an eye / or 2any other one member. And for that there were many in the time off the Apostles / which had not ether knowledge / or dexterity to teach: it can not be said without making the Apostles / Authors of horrible confusion / that they called all men to the ministry off the word / and sacraments. That which is brought out off Bull. and Sleidan / is but filling up of paper. For they condemn not the Anabaptists / because they chose their ministers: but that they excluded the authority of the magistrate.
If yow would haue doone symply / yow should haue named 1Pighius / who proueth diuersitie of gouernmēt off the church / as yow doo by this counterfaite place of Amb. As for the shifte wherwith the D. Would helpe it / that yt was permitted to al mē to preach, and minister the sacramentes, but not withowt a calling: yt is spoken witthowt reason. For what needed there / or howe can there be a calling / when all were vsed to the seruice of the ministrie? Seing that calling is a seperatiō from other by electiō / and electiō is choise of some / with leuinge off other some: And the churche of Christe is a bodie standing off manie members / and not all an eie / or 2any other one mēber. And for that there were manie in the time off the Apostles / vvhich had not ether knowledge / or dexteritie to teach: yt can not be saide vvithout making the Apostles / Authors of horrible confusion / that they called all men to the ministerie off the vvorde / and sacramentes. That vvhich is browght owt off Bull. and Sleidan / is but filling vpp of paper. For they condemne not the Anabaptistes / because they chose their ministers: but that they excluded the authoritie of the magistrate.