A18080:736
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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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.
To that alleged / that the Pastor if he vvill have many flocks, should content him self with that stipend off them all, 1which he hath off one, when that one is able to maintain him, and his family honestly: he answereth not. yet was it necessary to be answered / considering that thereby the painting of that Zeal / under pretence whereof they spread their nets over so many churches / is washed away. Where he accuseth me wholly / other of deceiving, or being deceived, in that the Council off Nice, is put without ⟨p. CCCLVII⟩the addition off Second. whereby it might be severed from the purer Council off Nice: I can not precisely say / whether the leaving out off Second / were my fault / or the fault off some other. but that I meant to deceive none / there be which can witness: by that that in the second edition (howsoever it was omitted) I gave a note whereby that should be corrected. His reason wherewith he would prove / that I meant to abuse the reader, for that I set it before Damasus, is to frivolous: considering that that counterfeit Damasus / mentioned in the first Tome off councils / was not before this second Council: and it is not unwonted to put the judgement off a council before that off a particular person. As for the corruption off the Council, I have showed how that maketh more against the D. 2then if the testimony had been fetched from the first Council. And where he saith / the Council meant that one should not have permitted unto him moe great cities then one: it is a shameless corruption off the mind off the Council. Considering that the drift thereof is / that one should not have more to live one / then is needful to maintain him self competently: and therefore is content as it were to wink at those / which are placed in poor churches not able to maintain their Pastor: albeit it inclineth rather to this / that he 3should supply that which is wanting / by some honest occupation.
To that alledged / that the Pastor if he vvill haue many flockes, should content him selff vvith that stipend off them all, 1