The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

To his exception against the first example / that there is inequality amongest servants: I answer there is none / but by the masters express appointment. And therefore if he will have advantage thereof: he must prove that it is the Lords ordinance / that one minister should rule over an other. beside that / it is enough to maintain mine answer / off equality off servants in a family / that it is so for the most part: and when my meaning was of servants left in one / and the same order / it is out off time to allege this example. Secondly the inequality there made / is not of one steward over an other / but over the family which he ministereth unto: and therefore this similitude maketh to show / that one minister is not ruler over an other / but every minister ruler off his flock. Thirdly that similitude off government off the steward, Math. 24. being propounded as a picture to set forth the rule off ministers over their flocks: declareth not only how there ought no government to be erected in the church / but by commandment off God: but also how far it ought to be from that absolute dominion / or lordly pomp / which the Answ. would bring in. which Musc. a great man with the D. declareth / when he sayeth: He speaketh after the common fashion: for this was the office of the principal servant, to give every man his diet: he was not ¹appointed to be lord off others.

To his exception against the first example / that there is inequalitie amongest seruantes: I answer there is none / but by the maisters expresse appointement. And therfore if he will haue aduantage theroff: he muste proue that it is the Lordes ordinance / that one minister shoulde rule ouer an other. beside that / it is enough to mainteine mine answer / off equalitie off seruantes in a familie / that it is so for the most part: ād whē my meaning was of seruā tes left in one / and the same order / yt is owt off time to alledge this exāple. Secōdly the inequalitie there made / is not of one steward ouer an other / but ouer the familie which he ministreth vnto: and therfore this similitude maketh to shew / that one minister is not ruler ouer an other / but euery minister ruler off his flock. Thirdly that similitude off gouernement off the steward, Math. 24. being propounded as a picture to set forth the rule off ministers ouer their flockes: declareth not onely how there owght no gouernement to be erected in the church / but by commaundment off God: but also how far it owght to be from that absolute domynion / or lordly pomp / which the Answ. would bring in. which Musc. a great man with the D. declareth / when he saieth: He speaketh after the commen faschion: for this vvas the office of the principall seruant, to gyue euery man his diet: he vvas not