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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
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Can there be plainer words to prove that the Archdeacon was no minister / then those whereby Sozomene putteth difference 1between an Archdeacon / and an elder / making them several members? And where he saith / by that reason the Archdeacon should ⟨p. DIII⟩be no deacon, nor the bishop no priest, considering that thes are there likewise distinguished: I marvel that he will dally after this sort. For although under the name off Deacon / and priest / the archdeacon / and bishop be comprehended: Yet who understandeth not / that as when bishop / and archbishop are compared together / one doth not / nor can not comprehend the other: so deacon / and Archdeacon / there expressly compared / are opposed members / and can not be comprehended one of another. For Deacons being divided into archdeacons / and those called by the common name of Deacons / likewise priests into bishops / and which are commonly called priests (onles we will imagine that Sozome could not tell how to speak) we must needs take them for distinct members. Further if the Archdeacon be comprehended of any the rest of members in this place / it is under the Deacons: and if he be contained under a priest also / then both the Deacon which comprehendeth an archdeacon / must be contained under priest / and Sozome is yet more ridiculous / which of one only custom hath made four. Beside that / Jerome opposing an archdeacon unto an 2arch elder / or in your language archpriest / saying every church hath her archdeacon, and archpriest: declareth manifestly / that the archdeacon was no priest. And by Gregory's epistle / which writing unto the archdeacon off a certain church / maketh the title unto the Deacon off such a church: appeareth that the Archdeacon 3was not a priest / but a Deacon.
Can there be plainer wordes to proue that the Archdeacon was no minister / then those wherby Sozomene putteth difference 1betwene an Archdeacon / and an elder / making them seuerall members? And where he saith / by that reaso• the Archdeacon shoulde