The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

There followeth the open violence done unto August. words. Where first let the reader observe again / that this wresting of the example of Eradius / against the election of the church / was taken from Pighius / as appeareth manifestly. But for answer ¹unto Pigbius / and the D. it must be understanded / how for that election of Eradius to be bishop after August. decease / there were assembled two bishops besides August. 6. Elders beside Eradius / with the rest of the clergy / and people. For what purpose all thes / if it were in Augustine's power to choose only? After it appeareth that Augustine did call the people to have there consent / because he had experience off trouble / and discontentment of the people off Milan: for that Severus the bishop there / did appoint his successor before his death / without speaking any thing thereof unto them: which could not be avoided off Augustine / if he meant to choose any against the will off the people. For it had been better for him to have appointed one as Sever us did / without communicating the matter unto them: then in communicating it / to take one against their wills. Again where the D. upon those words I vvill have Eradius my successor, would have that Augustine only had the election off him: he is confuted by and by after with his own words / I say that I vvill ⟨p. CCLXXIX⟩have him, because I know that you vvill have him. And after he willeth that the public notaries / should as well note their voices, as his vvill in this matter: that (saith he) your consents fall not to the ground, or become void. Whereunto also pertain / the subscriptions of them which followed. Which although the D. saith are referred only unto the petition off Augustine, to be discharged off the hearing off civill matters: yet the words sound otherwise. For when he required their subscription to those Acts: it is clear that he must be understanded / to have spoken off both those matters. otherwise he would have required subscription to that Act / and not unto the Acts.

There followeth the open violence doone vnto August. wordes. Where first let the reader obserue againe / that this wresting of the example of Eradius / against the election of the church / was taken from Pighius / as appeareth manifestly. But for answer ¹