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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.
Nether may the D. think here to escape / with the distinction 1off external things variable by circumstances / which else where he allegeth. For first I have showed that it is most untrue / that all external things be variable. Then he must remember / that he making his Archbishops office to begin in the Apostles times / hath drawn out his continuance unto this time: all which he hath (as he yet doth) accounted off him as a head pillar of the church off God. Now if he be such a profitable officer / both in the purest time off the church / and the corrupt, both in persecution / and peace / under a Christian Magistrate / and under a Tyrant: it is clear that this is an office not variable by circumstance off times / but which our Saviour Christ / and his Apostles might have aswell established in perpetuity / as he did any off those unchangeable ministries / Bishops / Deacons / &c.
Nether may the D. thinck here to escape / with the distinction 1off externall thinges variable by circumstances / which els where he alledgeth. For first I haue shewed that yt is most vntrue / that all externall thinges be variable. Thē he must remēber / that he making his Archbishops office to begin in the Apostles tymes / hath drawen owt his continuance vnto this tyme: all which he hath (as he yet doth) accounted off him as a head piller of the church off God. Now if he be such a profitable officer / both in the purest tyme off the church / and the corrupt, both in persequution / and peace / vnder a Christian Magistrate / and vnder a Tyrāt: yt is cleare that this ys an office not variable by circumstance off times / but which our Sauiour Christ / and his Apostles might haue aswell established in perpetuitie / as he did any off those vnchangeable ministeries / Bishops / Deacons / &c.
- 1in 4. diu. off this chap.
In calling it a servile tie, to have the whole government at the prescript off Gods word: he forgetteth that the greatest liberty / and freedom off Christians is / to serve the Lord according to his revealed will / and in all things to hang upon his mouth. But that he addeth (it is to be tied unto the letter, as in the law) first is Papistical / and Anabaptisticall: proceeding from a gross oversight / and want of understanding off the Apostles meaning / when he speaketh of the letter of the law. For whereas the Apostle setteth against the letter of the law / that is to say / the bare commandment