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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[ Earlier:694–709 of 1,280

:694p. CCCXXXIIII–CCCXXXVII

Yea if he be minister off the whole church / he hath a necessary calling to preach in as many places / as he can possibly: as he which otherwise shall be guilty off their blood / over whom having a ministry / he hath done no duty. But forasmuch as the Pastor hath his calling unto one certain place only / it must needs be that he going to other churches off his own head / goeth without calling. Onles he will here / fly unto secret persuasions off the spirit off God / without the voice off the church: which is mere Anabaptisticall. And where he saith / that God calleth him to that place where he may do most good: first he doth presumptuously / that taketh upon him to determine where he may do most good / and that which controlment off the churches judgement / which placing ⟨p. CCCXXXVII⟩him in a certain church / thereby giveth her sentence / that he might do most good there.

Yea if he be minister off the whole church / he hath a necessary calling to preach in as many places / as he can possibly: as he which otherwise shalbe gilty off their bloud / ouer whom hauing a mynistry / he hath doone no duty. But forasmuch as the Pastor hath his calling vnto one certein place onely / yt must needes be that he goyng to other churches off his owne head / goeth withowt calling. Onles he will here / flie vnto secret persuasions off the spirit off God / without the voice off the church: which is mere Anabaptisticall. And where he saith / that God calleth him to that place where he may doo moste good: first he doth presumpteously / that taketh vpon him to determin where he may doo moste good / and that which controlment off the churches iudgement / which placing ⟨p. CCCXXXVII⟩hym in a certein church / thereby gyueth her sentence / that he might doo moste good there.

:695p. CCCXXXVII–CCCXXXVI

Then I answer / that although he could know where he might do most good: yet that is no sufficient calling off God. For the lord calleth sometime his ministers unto places / where they gain least / and sendeth none to those where after preaching would follow repentance / as appeareth by that our Saviour Christ speaketh off Corazim / and Bethsaida / compared with Tyre / and Sidon

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