200 ,7be HISTORY of the PUPJTANS. Chap. V. Queen Lord's remembrancers : Keep not filenee, Ili. lxii. i, 6, y. It is dedi- Elizabeth, cated to the church of England, and all that love the trúth in it. In his U'S7 preface, he anfwers divers perfonal matters between the dolor and him- felf: He remembers him of his illegal depriving hita of his fellow(hip, and pronouncing him perjured. He Pays, he never opened his lips for the divinity chair, as he had falfly charged him : That he had never de- fired the degree of a dotior, but by the advice of more than a dozen, learned miniflers, who confìderinghis. office of divinity reader, thought he ought to affume the title. He added, that he never refufed a pri- vate conference with him [Whitgift], but that he offered it, and the other refufed it, Paying, he was incorrigible ; indeed he did refute pri- vate conference by writing, having had experience of his adverfary's unfaithfulnefs; and becaufe he thought that the dot`irine he had taught openly, fhould be defended openly. Whitgift charged him, that after he was expelled the college, he went, up and down doing no good, but Whitgift': living at other mens tables. How ungenerous was this! After the donor Life, P 64. had taken away his bread, and flo t his mouth, that he might not preach, to reproach him with doing nrgood, and being beholden to his friends for a dinner. Cartwright own'd, that he was poor ; that he had no wife, or houle of his own; and that it was with finali delight he lived upon his friends, though he fill did what little good he could, in infrul`ting their children. Whitgift charged his adverfary further, with, want of learning, though he had filled_ the divinity chair with vaÇt re- putation, and had been filed by Beza, Sol, the very Sun of England: He taxes him with making extraéis of other mens notes, and that he had fcarce read one of the ancient authors he had quoted. To which Cartwright modefly replied, that as to great reading he would let it pats; for if Whitgift had read all the Fathers, and he fcarce one, it would eafily appear to the learned world by their writings; but that it was fuffi- cientlyknown, he had hunted him with more hounds than one. The frength of his reply, lies in reducing the policy of the church as near as poffible to the fandard of fcripture ; for when Dr. Whitgift al- ledged force of the fathers of`'the 4th and 5th century on his fide, Cart- wright replied, " That forafmuch as the fathers have erred, and that cor- ruptions crept early into the church, therefore they ought to have no " further credit, than their authority is warranted by the word of God and reafon; to preis theia bare authority without relation to this, is to bring " an intolerable tyranny into the church of God." Strype's In- The fecond part of Cartwright's reply, was not publifhed till two years sots. forward, when he was fledout of the kingdom ; it is intitled, The ref of the frond reply of Thomas Cartwright, againft ma/ter dotor Whitgift's anfwer, touching the churchdifcipline, imprinted isyy. in which he (hews, that
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