The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

To the places proving that it is necessarily required in a ⟨p. CCCLXXXVIII⟩minister / that he should not only be sufficiently learned / but have ¹also the gift off utterance: he answereth not. Touching that the priests lips should keep knowledge / and not his papers: he ²answereth that he shall have it readier in his lips, if he have it in his papers: which is not to purpose / seeing we spake off those which have it only in papers. Then he hath a childish cavil / that if he read he must use his lips: as if the Prophet contented him self if the priests were able to read only / and did not note thereby the aptness to teach / as by uncircumcised lips / is noted heaviness / ³or unreadiness off speech. That a Preacher able for utterance, and learning to preach, may read a sermon, if he mean privately / is not in question: if publicly / it belongeth to the question off Homilies. His case off a man pronouncing an other mans sermon without book / beside the fondness is from the cause. That the reading of Jeremies, and Baruch's books was preaching, because the books were sermons: is to dream / and not to dispute.

To the places prouing that it is necessarily required in a ⟨p. CCCLXXXVIII⟩minister / that he should not onely be sufficiently learned / but haue ¹also the gift off vtterance: he answereth not. Towching that the priestes lippes should kepe knowledge / and not his papers: he ²answereth that he shall haue it readier in his lippes, if he haue yt in his papers: which is not to pourpose / seing we spake off those which haue yt onely in papers. Then he hath a childish cauill / that if he reade he must vse his lippes: as if the Prophet contented him self if the priestes were able to reade onely / and did not note therby the aptnes to teach / as by vncircumcised lippes / is noted heauines /