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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Off the necessary residence of the Pastor 4. Tractat. 5. according to the D.
Off the necessarie residence of the Pastor 4. Tractat. 5. according to the D.
Cap. 1. Divis. 1. pag. 235.
Cap. 1. Diuis. 1. pag. 235.
The D. to deliver the Non residents / from the crime he is charged with / flieth from the judgement off the word off God / unto his own conscience: so that if he / and his ⟨p. CCCXXXI⟩conscience although astonished / or blindled / can agree off some easier way than is debated / all mouths are shut up to speak against him. And pa. 238. he saith that preaching, and private exhortations, must be according to the conscience, and discretion off the Pastor: which is too shameful a saying. In stead whereof if he had put a good conscience (which will admit no persuasion but out off the word off God): he had openly begged that in question. The lord knew too well the unreformed corners / and false doors of the best con scicences / to commit his church which he loved so dearly unto their 1courtesy. When Saint Paul confesseth that he was not as touching his ministry justified / albeit his conscience cast him not in the teeth / of any thing he had done: he declareth that the conscience is no sufficient rule / to direct the minister in his charge▪ Yet his was more Christ alike / then is to be hoped after off any now. and when he saith / that all the works off a good minister / are