A18080:871
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.
Furthermore / when as the subjects off the Bishop / and Archbishop be divers / where about they be occupied / the one having one church / or to speak according to his sense / one Diocese / the other a whole province: still it must fall out / that they are divers offices. Last off all / forasmuch as offices in the scripture / are perpetual / and the office off an Archbishop may be taken away by men (by his own confession): it must follow / that they be divers offices. And if he look when I should conclude a new minis•••e: ⟨p. CCCCXXXIX⟩beside that it is all new which is strange / and strange which is not commanded by the word of God: it coming as shall appear some hundred years after the Apostles times / whose only authority is able to make the grey hairs / and antiquity of a thing be reverenced: it followeth that this word new / if. he nourish any mystery in it / is also truly verified of the ministry of the archbishop.
Furthermore / when as the subiectes off the Bishop / and Archbishop be diuers / where about they be occupied / the one hauing one church / or to speake according to his sense / one Diocese / thother a whole prouince: still it must fall owt / that they are diuers offices. Last off all / forasmuch as offices in the scripture / are perpetuall / and thoffice off an Archbishop may be taken away by men (by his owne confession): yt must follow / that they be diuers offices. And if he looke when I should conclude a new minis•••e: ⟨p. CCCCXXXIX⟩beside that yt is all new which is straunge / and straunge which is not cōmaunded by the word of God: yt comming as shall appeare some hundreth yeares after the Apostles times / whose onely autoritie is able to make the grey heares / and antiquitie of a thing be reuerēced: it followeth that this word new / if. he nourish any misterie in it / is also truly verified of the ministerie of tharchbishop.