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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
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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.
The words off our Saviour Christ in the 20. of S. Math. &c. are spoken unto the 12. only / whom he had set apart for the 1ministry off the gospel: but his words S. Math. 23. are spoken not only unto them / but unto the common people. Whereupon it followeth / that our Saviour joining the people with his disciples / in the dehortations which he maketh here: could not as in the other place / where he speaketh unto them alone / speak off the proper lists / and bounds of the ministry: and therefore there is no cause why M. should be glad, that I agree with him in the exposition off Math. 23. Further / Math. 20. making comparison between the 12. disciples / and Princes: here so far as toucheth the disciples / he maketh comparison between them / and other ecclesiastical ministers. There being therefore things in the state off a commendable Prince / which agree not unto the ministry of the gospel: it followeth that he may be well thought / there not only to have forbidden the disciples ambition / damnable in both estates: but also those things / which being commendable in Princes / agree not unto them. Off the other side / all things commendable in the Pharisees ministry Ecclesiastical / agreeing likewise to ⟨p. CCCCXXXVI⟩theirs: it followeth of necessity / that there he must needs speak against ambition only. Unto the next divis. being reproaches / I answer not: only where he chargeth me with falsehood, because I affirm he saith / the book off common prayer is a perfect rule to govern the church off England by / where nothing is wanting / or to much: I answer that there be not the same words / but when there is nothing he will acknowledge to be off the order of the book / which he maintaineth not / and refuseth to have added things which have their ground off the word: I leave to the reader to judge / whether although my words are with the fullest / yet I am far from his meaning.
The vvordes off our Sauiour Christ in the 20. of S. Math. &c. are spoken vnto the 12. onely / vvhom he had set apart for the 1