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:696–711 of 1,280

:696p. CCCXXXVI

I grant / and further that every one ought to take care off all the churches / but according to the bounds off that calling / wherein he is set off God. And beside that I have showed / that the love off God towards men is no certain rule / to direct the minister in his function / but his calling: the Answ. by this reason / must take shipping over to Rome / and Constantinople / and to whatsoever place he shall understand to have need off his help.

I graunt / and further that euery one ought to take care off all the churches / but according to the boundes off that calling / wherein he is set off God. And beside that I haue shewed / that the loue off God towards men is no certein rule / to direct the minister in his function / but his calling: the Answ. by this reason / must take shipping ouer to Rome / and Constantinople / and to whatsoeuer place he shall vnderstand to haue need off his help.

:697p. CCCXXXVI

You do as you say dally, not with mine / but with the holy ¹Ghost's metaphors off pastor / and watchman. And first where you would so assign the resemblance between these / and a Pastor off the church in other things / that you would not have ²it come to the diligence / and continuance in feeding: you are manifestly confuted by the words off the scripture. for in the person of Peter / it requiring off all ministers off the word / that they should feed, feed, feed, according to the charge committed unto ³them: showeth that the similitude reacheth to the diligent continuance. Which may better appear / in that as the government of the Pastor towards his church / is set out in the picture off a shepherd: so is the spiritual government of our Saviour Christ / shadowed forth in the same similitude. and life as our spiritual ⁴feeding is off Christ: so the principal means which he useth to feed us by / is the Pastor. Whereupon it followeth / that if it be needful for us at all times / to have our spiritual feeding of Christ: it is needful also to have always / that hand which the Lord especially hath appointed to give it by. Likewise noting a good minister by watch day and night / without cease / it is clear that

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