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Name: A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…
Author: Thomas Cartwright

A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.

Thomas Cartwright 1535–1603printed by John Stroud?, 1573

[4], 224 p. · 181k words · STC 4712 · ESTC S120563

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[ Earlier:684–699 of 1,019

:684p. 135

I am very loth to enter into this field / albeit M. Doctor doth thus provoke me / both because the Papists will lightly take occasion of evil speaking / when they understand that we do not agree amongst our selves in every point / as for that some few professors of the gospel being private men / boldened upon such treatises / take such ways sometimes / and break forth into such speeches / as are not meet nor convenient.

I am very lothe to enter into this field / albeit M. Doctor dothe thus prouoke me / bothe because the Papistes will lightly take occasion of euill speaking / when they vnderstand that we do not agree amongst our selues in euery poynte / as for that some fewe professors of the gospell being priuate men / boldened vpon such treatises / take such wayes sometimes / and breake forth into such speaches / as are not meete nor conuenient.

:685p. 135–136

Notwithstanding my duty of defending the truth / and love which I have first towards God / and then towards my country / constraineth me being thus provoked / to speak a few words more particularly of the form of prayer / that when the blemishes thereof do appear / it may please the Queens majesty / and her honourable Council / with those of the Parliament / whom the Lord hath used as singular instruments to deliver this realm from the hot furnace and iron yoke of the popish Egypt / to procure also / that the corruptions which we have brought from them (as those wish which we ⟨p. 136⟩being so deeply did and stained / have not so easily shaken of) may be removed from amongst us / to the end that we being nearlier both joined unto the sincerity of the gospel / and the policy of other reformed churches / may thereby be joined nearer with the Lord / and may be set so far from Rome / that both we may comfort our selves in the hope / that we shall never return thither again / & our adversaries which desire it / and by this too much agreement with them / and too little with the reformed churches / hope for it / may not only be deceived of their expectation / but also being out of all hope of that which they desire / may the sooner yield themselves unto the truth / whereunto they are now disobedient.

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