The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

That whether he were the brother off Lombard / tharchepiller of Antichrists seat / borne with a third brother of a strumpet (as they write which cover the shame of his birth) or Lombards bastard / conceived by a Nun / which by revelation accompanied her self with Lombard: whether so ever I say he were off thes / this is certain / that in gathering the canons off the councils / he endeavoured by might / and main / to make them agree with the Patron off the adulterous church off Rome. Therefore in going about / to reconcile thee government off the elder churches off Christ / with that upstart Synagogue off Antichrist / as it were to make accord between the owl / and the raven: there is no kind of false dealing / nether in adding / changing / diminishing / false interpreting / nor other corruptions / and that contrary to the clear light off words / controlment off records extant to confute him / wherein he hath not carried away the bell of unshamfastnes / from all that ever wrote before him / or in his time. Off thes corruptions there are almost as many both witnesses / and gatherers off our own country men / and of others: as have at any time been exercised in this field off confutation / off the popish religion. As for his glossers / as the Popes hired servants / such as flattered for a crust off bread / saying yea to his yea / and nay to his nay: they shall go together with their master. And let even this place of the D. ⟨p. CCLXXXVII⟩before a say off the glosses impudency / in expounding Leos words. For where Leo speaking of election / setteth forth the interest ¹of the churches with all thes words / that the minister ought to be chosen by the consent off the people, by the voices off the people, by their good wills, and that none be ordained which they desire not, which they wish not for, which they require not: all thes words this good gloss bringeth me unto this / that the people should only give testimony off his good behaviour, which is before confuted.

That whether he vvere the brother off Lombard / tharchepiller of Antichristes seat / borne with a third brother of a strompet (as they write vvhich couer the shame of his birth) or Lombardes bastard / conceined by a Nun / which by reuelation accompanied her selfe vvith Lombard: vvhether so euer I saie he vvere off thes / this is certeine / that in gatheringe the canons off the councelles / he endeuored by mighte / and maine / to make them agree vvith the Patrone off the adulterous church off Rome. Therfore in goynge aboute / to reconcile thee gouernemente off the elder churches off Christe / vvith that vpstarte Synagogue off Antechriste / as yt vvere to make accorde between the owle / and the rauen: there is no kinde of false dealinge / nether in addinge / changinge / dimynishinge / false interpretinge / nor other corruptions / and that contrarie to the cleare lighte off wordes / controrolmente off recordes extante to confute him / wherin he hath not caried awaie the bel of vnshamfastnes / from all that euer wrote before him / or in his time. Off thes corruptions there are almoste as many both vvitnesses / and gath erers off our owne cotrey men / and of others: as haue at any time bene exercised in this fielde off confutation / off the popishe religion. As for his glossers / as the Popes hyred seruantes / such as flattered for a cruste off breade / sayinge yea to his yea / and nay to his nay: they shall goe to gether with their maister. And let euen this place of the D.