A brief apology of Thomas Cartwright against all such slanderous accusations as it pleaseth…A brief apologie of Thomas Cartwright against all such slaunderous accusations as it pleaseth…

Where, in my reply, or in treatise of what matter I remember not, nor Mr Sutcliffe (I believe) shall ever show that Thomas Cartwright hath so little knowledge of divinity as to affirm that the extemporal prayers of any (how able soever in these days) are uttered by the holy ghosts secret inspiration. And in what place or time and in whose hearing could I scarcely be induced to like of a prescript form of prayer? The noting of these circumstances, which he doth diligently, yea curiously (where he thinketh they may serve the turn) would easily have bewrayed, th'vntrueth hereof. My continual practise in the ministry witnesseth against it, for in the space of five years I preached ⟨image 11⟩at Antwerp and Middelborogh, I did every sunday read the prayer out of the book: And all the while I preached at Warwick there were few sermons I ever made there but (to my remembrance) I did shut up the prayer either before or after the sermon with the Lords prayer: Besides that the prayer before the sermon ordinarily was a set and accustomed form of prayer howsoever I read it not out of the book, and likewise was that after the sermon some small part excepted, where in my prayer I applied some principal points of the doctrine the handled: All which I would not have done, if I had not allowed, yea well liked also a prescript form of prayer. And hitherto of the former kind of slanders concerning the breach of necessary duties imposed upon all christians. The second of things indifferent in their own nature followeth: For as touching his charge of odious and ignorant railing, &c. I refer my self to indifferent judgement upon the books which are extant.