The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Name: The second reply of Thomas Cartwright
Author: 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

Thomas Cartwright 1535–1603Heidelberg: printed by Michael Schirat, 1575

[32], DLXVI [i.e. DCLXVI], [14] p. · 302k words · STC 4714 · ESTC S107569

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That functions off Apostles / Evangelists / and Prophets are not…: That functions off Apostles / Evangelists / and Prophets are not ordinary.That functions off Apostels / Euangelistes / and Prophetes are not…: That functions off Apostels / Euangelistes / and Prophetes are not ordinarie.

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.

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:659p. CCCXII–CCCXIII

His second reason drawn (as he calleth it) off the subscription ⟨p. CCCXIII⟩of the second Epistle / is as vain. For who is there onles be which hath his nose stuffed / with self willed prejudice against the truth / that can not easily smell that subscription / not to be in the canon off the holy scripture? for considering that he had in the beginning off the Epistle / made the direction unto Timothy what needed he in the subscription / repeat the same again? Likewise that he was first, and that he was ordained, or chosen by voice: savoureth not S. Paul. Considering that if there were any such thing / both Timot. and the Ephesi. knew it well: and there was more cause to write that in the former Epistle / then in this whereby he calleth him from thence: also in the superscription / then in the subscription. seeing it is contrary to all use of letters / to set ether the name / or titles off him to whom we write / in the subscription / or underwriting of our letters. This riot / and disorder hardly happen unto a man off mean Judgement / and shall we think that they were committed off Saint Paul / or rather of God by him? last off all / that the subscription hath was written, and not written, and when Paul appeared, not when I / or when I Paul appeared: doth manifestly argue / that it was none off his / considering that there is no such subscription in all his Epistles / where he speaketh off him self / in the third person. And seeing in those things wherein he used the hand off an other / which copied out his letters / he never useth that manner of speech: that he would use it in the subscription / which can not be otherwise esteemed then off his own hand / it is altogether incredible▪

His second reason drawne (as he calleth yt) off the subscription ⟨p. CCCXIII⟩of the second Epistle / is as vaine. For who is there onles be which hath his nose stuffed / with selfe willed preiudice against the truth / that can not easely smell that subscription / not to be in the canon off the holy scripture? for considering that he had in the beginning off the Epistle / made the direction vnto Timothet what needed he in the subscription / repete the same againe? Likewise that he was first, and that he was ordeined, or chosen by voice: sauoreth not S. Paul. Considering that yf there were any such thing / both Timot. and the

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