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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
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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 4any gift off teaching: and in that he doth so often oppose it / to the fruitless speaking in a strange tongue / amongest the assembly of the faithful.
His other reason is / that Prophetes in the 1. Corint. 14. and Prophecie 112. Rom. are put as ordinary. Whereunto I answer / that the word Prophecie / is taken sometimes not for that particular function Saint Paul speaketh off / but generally for any publike instruction off the people / in the will off God. As when it is saied extinguish not the spirit, dispise not prophecie. That it ys so taken 2to the Rom. yt ys manifest / for that yt ys deuided / and altogether consumed into the ministeries off the word. So that there being no ordinary minister off the word in the church / which it embraceth not: yt must follow that it is taken there / for no particular