A18080:762
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The 5. Tract. and 6. un the O.The 5. Tract. and 6. vn the O.
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.
Here the D. light estimation off the churches salvation / 1and off preaching is notably discovered. before he said / that thes reading pastors were taken for necessity: now he teacheth / that •f there were sufficient pastors to supply the rooms / yet the readers should keep their places still If ye ask why: lest forsooth they with their families should go a begging. Here a whole church is sold for 30 pieces off silver / or rather as I may say / for old shoes. For the D. weighing in his skills / whether it is better that the church should want a preaching pastor / whom God hath ordained the principal instrument to save his church by / or that the reader with his family should go a begging: hath found the soul health off a whole church / far lighter then the bodily commodity of one reader with his family. Where he saith / it seemeth that I would have the minister renant at will / or by courtesy: it is an untrue surmise. For I complain that thes reading Ministers / ⟨p. CCCLXXIII⟩were not only placed until other might be gotten: but had a free hold / whereby the sheep are not only committed to the wolf / but the door sparred also upon them.
Heere the D. light estimation off the churches saluation / 1and off preaching is notably discouered. before he saied / that thes reading pastors were taken for necessity: now he teacheth / that •f there were sufficient pastors to supply the roumes / yet the readers should kepe their places still Yf ye aske why: lest forsooth they with their families should goe a begging. Heere a whole church is sould for 30 peeces off siluer / or rather as I may say / for ould shooes. For the D. weighing in his skiles / whether yt is better that the church should vvant a preaching pastor / vvhom God hath ordeined the principall instrument to saue his church by / or that the reader vvith his familie should goe a begging: hath found the sowlehealth off a whole church / farr lighter then the bodely cōmodity of one reader with his familie. Where he saith / yt seemeth that I vvould haue the minister renant at will / or by courtesie: it is an vntrue surmise. For I complaine that thes reading Ministers /