The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

That the ministry is a matter of salvation / that the archbishop is a new ministry / that it is absurd here to fly to the example off the Magistrate / where the question is what Ecclesiastical offices are profitable: is before declared.

That the ministerie is a matter of saluaciō / that tharchbishop is a new ministerie / that it is absurd here to flie to thexample off the Magistrate / where the questiō is what Ecclesiasticall offices are profitable: is before declared.

The Ans. conclusion off my reply / touching the place to the Ephes. is evil shut up. For where he saith that the archbishopric ¹may stand, because that place reckoning up only the ministries of the word, that is a ministry off order, and policy: how could he forget / that the archbishop meddleth with the ministry of the word? and therefore it was necessary to be here mentioned / if the Apostle had given him any place in the church. If he will say / that he hath not only the ministry off the word / but off order also: the answer is at hand / that so had both the Apostles by his own confession / and all the rest off those ministries / as appeareth afterward. Whether therefore the archbishop be considered in his ministry of the word / or as together with that he holdeth the reigns off government / or as one of the most principal ministries of the church: ether he hath his place here to the Ephes. or not a• all. For both all ministries off the word (to speak as the D.) separate from government / and order / and all occupied in the word / and government jointly / and all principal ministries of off the church / are here reckoned up. Every one then off thes three causes being sufficient / to have made mention of the archbishop: all together put a necessity upon the Apostle to speak off him / if he had been worth the speaking off.

The Ans. conclusion off my replie / touching the place to the Ephes. is euill shut vp. For where he saith that tharchbishoprick ¹