A18080:151
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.
Afterward he chargeth me / with an unadvised and a popish assertion / for that I say: that many things are commanded in the scripture which are not expressed in it. He needed not to have travailed far / to have seen how far I am from popery in in this point: if he would have but considered / the words which follow in the same division: that god hath set before us in his word, a perfect patron off his church. But I was at least overseen in this kind off speech. Alas if he would understand his grammar / and acknowledge that which simple scholars off the grammar school do well know / that their is difference between expressed and contained, between expressed and included, between expressed and implied, between expressed and gathered: He would never have troubled the reader with such follies. And as for that which I set down / I did it upon Good grounds. For who is there which knoweth not / that thes things / that there is one essence and three persons in the godhead / that there is in our Saviour Christ one parson and two natures: are not expressed / but only contained in the word off God?
Afterwarde he chargethe me / withe an vnaduised and a popishe assertion / for that I say: that many thinges are commaunded in the scripture vvhich are not expressed in yt. He neded not to haue trauailed far / to haue seene how far I am from poperie in in this pointe: iff he woulde haue but considered / the wordes which folowe in the same diuision: that god hathe set before vs in his vvorde, a perfect patrone off his churche. But I was at leaste ouerseene in this kind off speache. Alas iff he woulde vnderstande his grammer / and acknowledge that which simple scholers off the gram̄er schoole doo well knowe / that their is difference betweene expressed and conteined, betweene expressed and included, betweene expressed and implied, betweene expressed and gathered: He woulde neuer haue troubled the reader with suche folies. And as for that which I set downe / I did yt vppon Good groundes. For who is there which knoweth not / that thes thinges / that there is one essence and three persons in the godheade / that there is in our Sauiour Christe one parson and two natures: are not expressed / but onely conteined in the worde off God?
And if proof must be had off things (which is to great