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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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After he addeth howsoever the place be expounded, yet it maketh not against him. No if S. Peter / and Paul cry never so high / in this language of continual residence: yet the D. is deaf / and will not hear. If both the Apostles do not only command the Pastors to feed in their proper flocks: not only that they must employ their talents / but where: it is manifest that they shut out / that roving abroad unto other churches / which is pretended for ⟨p. CCCXLV⟩Non residence. I showed how the argument is good / taken from the place off the Thessal. that for so much as S. Paul conceived a great grief / in being absent a small space from those / to whom 1he was not so strictly bound / as the Pastor to his flock: the Pastor ought much more to be grieved / to be away from his flock. And consequently thereof must follow / that if their absence sat so near their hearts / as it ought: it would hang such plummets off their heals / as should hinder them from those lightfooted leaps / which he maintaineth. I added also / that the Pastor having the same duty unto his proper church, which the Apostles had towards all the churches of their charge: it must follow, that as they were continually in their ministry towards some off those churches: so the Pastor should be continual upon the charge off his church. That he bringeth against this / that the Apostle did not speak this in any duty off ministry: for that a learned man noteth off that place, how the saints desire to see one an other bodily, is ridiculous: as if his desire to see them / could not stand with the duty off the his ministry.
After he addeth howsoeuer the place be expounded, yet it maketh not against him. No if S. Peter / and Paul crye neuer so highe / in this language of continuall residence: yet the D. is deaf / and will not heare. Yf both the Apostles doo not only commaund the Pastors to feed in their proper flockes: not onely that they must employ their talentes / but vvhere: yt ys manifest that they shut owt / that rouing abroad vnto other churches / vvhich is pretended for ⟨p. CCCXLV⟩Non residence. I shewed how the argument is good / taken from the place off the Thessal. that for so much as S. Paul conceiued a great greif / in being absent a small space from those / to whom