The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Last of all / when Satan had lifted up the son of perdition into his fear / and had made a full conquest off all sincerity ⟨p. DXXIII⟩off religion: it was flatly decreed / that it should not be lawful ¹to ordain any Bishop / ether in villages / or small city: lest through the multitude / bishops should wax vile / as I have alleged in the former book. Whereupon cometh here to be considered / what is answered: that I be not compelled there to renew this question again. His answer is / that I have falsified the place, that I have not red the Epistle, that if I had, having any modesty I would never have so written To let the rest goo / and withal his unworthy reproach / so often repeated / for saying Boniface to Zechariah, in stead off Zechariah to Boniface / seeing the quotation in the margin is right: I say to let thes go / consider wherein I have used falsehood Y• is first assigned / in that where the words off the Epistle are / lest the name off a Bishop should wax vile: I said / lest they should wax vile through the multitude. If I have falsified in adding through the multitude: what truth / or faith hath the Answerer used / in adding / because the contemptibleness off the place, often times bringeth contempt off the person? This addition off words is greater then mine / and no more found in the Epistle then mine: whose interpretation is more agreeable unto the mind off the writer / his that the danger off contempt was conceived by reason off the place, or mine that it was by reason off the multitude: let the reader judge.

Laste of all / when Sathan had lifted vp the sonne of perdition into his feare / and had made a full conqueste off all synceritie ⟨p. DXXIII⟩off religion: yt was flatly decreed / that yt should not be lawfull ¹to ordeine any Bishop / ether in villages / or small cytie: leste throwghe the multitude / bishops should waxe vile / as I haue alledged in the former booke. Wherupon cometh here to be considered / what ys answered: that I be not cōpelled there to renewe this question againe. His answer is / that I haue falstfied the place, that I haue not redd the Epistle, that yf I had, hauing anie modestie I would neuer haue so written To let the reste goo / and withal his vnworthy reproche / so often repeated / for saying Boniface to Zacharie, in steade off Zachary to Boniface / seing the quotation in the margent is right: I say to let thes goe / consider wherin I haue vsed falshoode Y ys firste assigned / in that where the wordes off the Epistle are / leste the name off a Bishop shoulde vvax vile: I saide / leste they shoulde vvaxe vile throvvghe the multitude. If I haue falsified in adding throvvgh the multitude: what truth / or faithe hathe the Answerer vsed / in adding / becawse the contemptiblenes off the place, often tymes bringeth contempte off the person? This addicion off wordes ys greater then mine / and no more founde in the Epistle then mine: whose interpretacion is more aggreable vnto the minde off the writer / his that the daunger off contempte was conceiued by reason off the place, ormine that it was by reason off the multitude: let the reader iudge.