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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.
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.
But why I esteem the title off head of the church / not to agree unto any simple creature / either in heaven / or earth / I have showed my reasons / let the church Judge.
But why I esteme the title off head of the church / not to agree vnto any simple creature / etherin heauen / or earth / I haue shewed my reasons / let the church Iudge.
The question is not whether the name of Archbishop is / but whether it ought to be continued: and if the continuance of it in our 1church / draw such credit / the putting down of it in all other churches throughout Christendom / must needs bring great prejudice. But it is lawful: therein is the question. Which although he hath often affirmed: yet we are come to an end of the decision of this question by the scriptures / and no word brought to confirm it. Wherein ether he is little beholding to his cause / which will minister him nothing to say: or his cause to him which leaveth it thus destitute. For although the reasons against it should be insufficient: yet if he would have this title continue in the church / he ⟨p. CCCCXXI⟩should have by showing the lawfulness of it out of the word / both persuaded those which have an evil opinion of it / and confirmed them which waver. For the sixth divis. let the Judgement be the readers. Before I come unto the 7. I will for the cause alleged in the beginning off this treatise / take in here the residue off the 20. off S. Math.
The questiō is not whether the name of Archbishop is / but whether it owght to be cōtinued: and if the cōtinuance of it in our 1church / draw such credit / the putting downe of it in all other churches throwghowt Christēdome / must needes bring great preiudice. But it is lawfull: therin is the question. Which althowgh he hath oftē affirmed: yet we are come to an end of the decisiō of this question by the scriptures / and no word browght to confirme it. Wherin ether he is litle beholding to his cawse / which will minister him nothing to say: or his cawse to him which leaueth it thus destitute. For althowgh the reasons against yt should be insufficiēt: yet if he would haue this title continew in the church / he