The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

If therefore he think that the Lord hath bound him self by those words / to continue thes degrees: it followeth that he is bound to furnish them / with gifts proper to them. For if promising such as S. Paul here meaneth he give other kinds / much inferior unto them: he thereby (which all godly ears detest) is argued off untruth.

If therefore he think that the Lord hath bound hym self by those wordes / to continue thes degrees: yt followeth that he is bound to furnish them / with giftes proper to them. For if promising such as S. Paul here meaneth he giue other kindes / much inferior vnto them: he thereby (which all godly eares detest) is argued off vntruth.

His other reason is / that Prophets in the 1. Corint. 14. and Prophecy ¹12. Rom. are put as ordinary. Whereunto I answer / that the word Prophecy / is taken sometimes not for that particular function Saint Paul speaketh off / but generally for any public instruction off the people / in the will off God. As when it is said extinguish not the spirit, despise not prophecy. That it is so taken ²to the Rom. it is manifest / for that it is divided / and altogether consumed into the ministries off the word. So that there being no ordinary minister off the word in the church / which it embraceth not: it must follow that it is taken there / for no particular ³function. Which thing may better appear / for that in other places where S. Paul divideth the whole ministry of the church / the ministry off the word / which he uttered here by the word off Prophecy / he there attributeth not unto Prophets / but unto Bishops. And when as the prophecy which the D. fancieth / is a simple Ministry off the church: that Prophecy mentioned there being compounded / must needs be divers. Likewise that a Prophet to the Corin. is taken generally / for any which instructeth with any word off exhortation / it is apparent both by that S. Paul attributeth prophesying / to all which have