The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

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 ¹/ off Capernaum compared with Sodom: and by that the Lord saith to Ezekiel / off the Jews compared with the Gentiles. And our Sau. Christ which knew where he might do most good / and best fill his hand off the Lords corn / following the calling off God his father / even in the land off Jury where his charge was / preached more in certain stoncharted towns / then in those which were better affectioned to his doctrine. Which may appear both by Jerusalem / and the examples before recited / and especially in Capernaum. In which for that he preached so often / and wrought so many miracles / it is in an other place called his own city. Now if our Sau. Christ preached no where but by the calling off God his father / and yet few in places more ²abundantly / where he knew he should have a thinner harvest: it followeth that it is both untrue which the Answ. saith / that God calleth a man to preach / where he may do most good: and true / that the lawful voice of the church (being the same to the Ministers now / which the holy spirit off God was in those extraordinary callings) ought to go before every one in his ministry / not only for direction off him to preach / but also for the place where. Whereupon followeth / that he which being placed in one church / leapeth into an other / without an other calling off the church / runneth or ever he be sent. So that although the Pastor had never so hearty a desire to profit, in his wandering from place to place: yet having no calling / there is no obedience: and therefore if in casting his net into an other mans fishing / he should enclose never so great a multitude: yet with out pardon / he shall one day hear / that to obey is better than sacrifice▪ and to hearken better then the fat of rams▪ Where he addeth that God ³inclineth ⟨p. CCCXXXVI⟩