A18080:799
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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The 5. Tract. and 6. un the O.The 5. Tract. and 6. vn the O.
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Whereby he maketh things necessary to saluaceō / nether expressed / nor necessarily concluded of the scripture: and condemneth in this behalf / all churches which ether have been / or are / not receiving the use off homilies. Thus ones the singular fruit off preaching the word / is manifest to be so much greater then homilies reading / as the means ordained off the lord / is more fruitful then that off men.
Wherby he maketh thinges necessary to saluaceō / nether expressed / nor necessarily concluded of the scripture: and condēneth in this behalf / all churches which ether haue bene / or are / not receiuing the vse off homilies. Thus ones the singular fruict off preaching the word / is manifest to be so much greater then homilies reading / as the meanes ordeined off the lord / is more fruictful then that off men.
Secondly if they were convenient / yet they might both be made / and publicly red / without any of those ordinary ministries which the lord hath appointed in his word. for a private man may write them / as he may do a commentary: and if a minister make them / yet he doth nor that by bond off his ministry. for then he should leave a part off it undone / which wrote not homilies: and having done all other parts / should be guilty off the not fulfilling off it / for omitting this. seeing therefore there is no commanded ministry off God required / nether in making / nor reading 1of them / and sermons can not be made without: there is here an other singular difference / lifting up preaching with the fruit thereof / so far above homilies red▪ as the Lords authorised Ambassador with his broad seal / and letters patents / is above him in whom no such marks appear, without whose ministry ⟨p. CCCXCV⟩when (as I have showed) faith can not be engendered / nor men ordinarily saved: there being plentiful salvation without homilies reading / as appeareth both otherwise / and by other churches where they are not: the difference of preaching with the fruit thereof / is incomparably more / then that by homilies reading.