The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

That he addeth that Gratian him self doth so expound it: all men understand how unsavourly it is spoken. As if it were any marvel that Gratian so expounded it / which is known to be an open corrupter off the Councils / and manifestly in this point off having many benefices / not only in this council / but in that off Calcedon. For where the Council decreed that no man might be ordained in two cities: he doth impudently dally with it / saying he may be notwithstanding Archbishop of one city, and bishop ¹of an other: provided that he enjoy the one as entitled to it, and the other by way off commendation. Which is but a toy to mock an ape. As if a man should say / that it were not lawful to have two wives at ones / but yet he might have two women / one under the title off a wife / an other of a lem̄end. This interpretation off the Council / is yet made worse by the D. for he addeth ⟨p. CCCLVIII⟩that a Pastor may not be ordained in moe great cities then one: as though the Council would permit one to be over divers small cities. The proof brought by the Council / that ²every one ought to tarry in that vocation wherein he is called, is fit. The reason against it / that the Apostle speaketh off the kind off vocation, and not off the place, is fond: as though it were not a mans calling / to do that he hath to do / in one certain place: or as though if the soldier / or ambassador commanded to serve in one place / serve in an other / he offended not against this rule off the Apostle. Where fault is found / that I set down councils in the plural number, alleging but one: he dealeth very strictly which will not suffer me to speak as other do. but that there may be councils / let him learn that the same was decreed in the council off Toledo. Whereunto I join Master Hoppers judgement / ³which saith that no man off what gifts soever may have two livings. and therefore he is not so much a shepherd which hath many flocks / as the D. saith / as a thief: seeing not able to do the office of a Pastor towards them / he pilleth them.

That he addeth that Gratian him self doth so expound it: all men vnderstand how vnsauourly yt is spoken. As yf it were any meruaile that Gratian so expounded yt / which is knowen to be an open corrupter off the Councels / and manifestly in this point off hauing many benefices / not onely in this councell / but in that off Calcedon. For where the Councell decreed that no man might be ordeined in tvvo cyties: he doth impudently dally with it / saying he may be notvvithstanding Archebishop of one cytie, and bishop