The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Lastly you say the administration off discipline, and government in the Apostles, is fallen upon the Archbishops, and bishops, the overthrow off my whole assertion If a man will believe you speaking / he may: otherwise here is nothing but I said it. And surely it must be a very simple hold / that is cast down with this paper shot of bare affirmation. but if you will weigh a little what you say: you shall see that if there be any bullet at all in this your saying / it is charged wholly upon your self. For before you have said once / or twice that the office, and authority off an Archbishop was in the Apostles times. Which if it be true / how doth the Archbishop receive his authority off order / and government by their death? for having it before / he cannot receive it by their departure. Ether therefore this is untrue / that the archbishop exerciseth the same authority which the Apostles: or that which you said before / that the office off the Archbishop was in the Apostles time: or else this third is true / that he having in the Apostles time / authority which he hath now: by their death obtained beside their former authority / that which the Apostle had also. Which how near it ⟨p. CCCCLVIII⟩pricketh at the papacy / I leave to every one to consider. But if the Archbishop will succeed unto the administration off order / and government off the Apostles: why showeth he not his evidence? why bringeth he not forth his records of bequest / off resignation: that it may appear he is not entered as a trespasser.

Lastly yow say the administration off discipline, and gouernement in the Apostles, is fallen vpon the Archbishops, and bishops, the ouerthrow off my whole assertion Yf a man will belieue yow speaking / he may: otherwise here is nothing but I saied yt. And surely yt must be a very simple hould / that is cast downe with this paper shot of bare affirmatiō. but if yow will weigh a litle what yow say: yow shall see that if there be any bullet at al in this yowr saying / yt is charged wholy vppon yowr self. For before yow haue saied once / or twise that the office, and autoritie off an Archbishop was in the Apostles tymes. Which if yt be true / how doth the Archbishop receiue his auauritie off order / and gouernement by their death? for hauing yt before / he cannot receiue yt by their departure. Ether therfore this is vntrue / that the archbishop exerciseth the same autoritie which the Apostles: or that which yow saied before / that the office off the Archbishop was in the Apostles time: or els this third is true / that he hauing in the Apostles time / autoritie which he hath now: by their death obteined beside their former autoritie / that which the Apostle had also. Which how neere it