The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

For if he speak off those which minister the word / and Sacraments / not off those instituted for government / &c. it followeth that he speaketh off those which minister the word / and Sacraments only. As he that saith a man is justified by faith / and not by works: saith that he is justified by faith only. The bolt shot upon no occasion / touching the papacy off every pastor in his church, and off shaking off the Princes authority, being that which cometh every hand while / when he hath nought else to say / shall be broken in an other place. For the two next divis. let the reader judge off the writings off both sides.

For if he speake off those which minister the word / and Sacramentes / not off those instituted for gouernement / &c. yt followeth that he speaketh off those which minister the word / and Sacramentes onely. As he that saith a man is iustified by faith / and not by worckes: saith that he is iustified by faith onely. The bolt shot vppon no occasion / towching the papacie off euery pastor in his church, and off shaking off the Princes autoritie, being that which cometh euery hand while / when he hath nought els to say / shall be broken in an other place. For the two next diuis. let the reader iudge off the writinges off both sides.

My words have light enough to have kept you from this ⟨p. CCCCLXII⟩¹wandering / but that you take pleasure in untruth. for beside that the scope off my disputation / doth beat you from that vagary: my words are plain. For I say not that every one that occupieth a ministry in the church, hath gifts sufficient for his calling: but every function, or ministry off the church, hath gifts sufficient, &c. And if your understanding be so narrow as you pretend: understand it by examples. And because our question is of offices necessary for our times / and therefore likewise off the gifts: you may learn that the office off a Pastor / is (as hath been showed) a several office from the Doctor / because beside the knowledge / and dexterity in teaching / the wisdom / and discretion in governing: it hath also annexed the grace to move affections / ether to the love of good / or hatred off evil. Likewise the Doctor from the Elder: because beside the gift off government enough for that function / there is required as I have said ability to teach. The Deacon from the Elder: for that beside faithfulness / and reasonable wisdom / which is sufficient for the gathering / and bestowing of the church money: is required with greater wisdom a singular diligence / as off him whose charge reacheth unto the whole / where the other pertaineth to the poor of the church only: and which is occupied in relieving the poverties off the mind / where the other is off the body. This is that I said / every function hath proper gifts for the execution of it: and that forsomuche as now there is no gift necessary for the ecclesiastical ministry / not contained in thes / and that all thes fall into the ordinary ministry instituted / and specified in the scripture: therefore thes ordinary Ministries specified in scripture / are sufficient. And as it is a good reason that there are no moe Sacraments but baptism / and the supper / forsomuch as there is no promise off life everlasting not expressed in thes / considering that the one sealeth up / and assureth that we are received into the house off God / the other that we shall be fed in it to life everlasting: even so thes ministries / are proved to be sufficient / because all gifts necessary to good order / and conduit off the church / are promised unto them.