A18080:982
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.
Furthermore / I would know what charter the Answ. can show / that the first 500. years (within compass whereof he hath brought his testimonies) be just the time off the primitive church / nether more nor less. But thus must he do / that having ⟨p. DX⟩nothing else / he might with this glorious title off the primitive church / dazzle the eyes off the simple. Last off all / when he saith there was no function brought into the church the first 500. years / allowed by general council / or credible writer / not meet for that time / and allowable by the word off God: besides the gross demand off that in question: I would know off him wherefore served exorcists / when the gift off casting forth evil spirits / was ceased? what he will answer unto aJeromes monks / bHermits / cAnchoristes? Which were at that time very gross. what to the four Patriarchs / or rather three? Which by the general Council off Calcedon / soon after 400. years / had the government off churches through out all the world. whether he allow of that famous robbery / whereby the bishop off Rome / Constantinople / and Alexandria (for the bishop of Jerusalem beside the name / had scarce a plough land in comparison off the rest) parted the state off the whole inheritance off Christ? And if it be true which he daffirmed / that the Council of Calcedon offered the name universal bishop / unto the bishop off Rome: how will he maintain that no general Council within 500. years, allowed any office not agreeable unto the word of God, and meet for those times? Finally / what will he say to that it was (as Julius bishop 5of Rome saith) decreed by the laws off the church / and immediately after the Nicene Council / that the Bishop off Rome must be called to the Synod: and that it was void which was done there / beside his sentence? Thus you may see / that your self enemy to Antichrist / through your inordinate desire of making good that you have once set down / have given him more ground / then he could ever by strong hand off disputation conquer.