The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Where he asketh for the place, in which Augustine calleth them wolves that teach not: if he have not the word wolf, yet he speaketh ¹to that effect / when upon the place off Ezekiel I have given the a watchman, &c. he proveth that he which holdeth his peace / murdereth. Which also even the Pope himself / as long as there was but a spark of true knowledge / confesseth. If the D. ²say / that his men hold not their peace, because they read: it is a cavil unworthy answer. As though when the Prophet calleth the rascal ministers off his time / dumb dogs, and such as could not ³not bark, his meaning were to charge them that they could not spell / or read in a book off their own language laid before them. And so I trust appeareth / that this tail off reading ministers ought to be cut of: and that they are none off these princely gifts / which our Saviour Christ ascended into heaven / sendeth ⁴unto his church / but the bishops (to speak no grievous liar off them) more then beggarly presents. But we are not yet at an end. For that which the D. can not get / in comparing a preaching pastor with a keading: he thinketh to obtain in comparing reading with preaching / whereunto perremeth his 13 Tract.

Where he asketh for the place, in which Augustine calleth them woulues that teach not: if he haue not the vvord vvoulf, yet he speaketh ¹to that effect / when vpon the place off Ezechiel I haue gyuen the a vvatchman, &c. he proueth that he which holdeth his peace / murthereth. Which also euen the Pope himselfe / as lōg as there was but a sparcke of true knowledge / confesseth. Yf the D. ²say / that his mē hold not their peace, because they reade: it is a cauill vnworthy answer. As though when the Prophet calleth the rascall ministers off his time / domme dogges, and suche as could not ³