A18080:156
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
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There was in deed difference between these nations / which dwelled in the land off the inheritance off the children of Israel / and which dwelt round about them. For where the Jews might make league with the nations round about them / without any their submission unto Religion: ⟨p. XLIX⟩they could not do so with the Canaanites / &c. And where in other nations after peace refused / the children off Israel having taken a city / ought to keep a live women and children in these ether resisting them / or not submitting themselves unto the service of god / it was not lawful to spare ether women or children. But that it was simply unlawful for them / to make league with them with any condition / I think it can not be showed. for them Joshua and the princes should have done evil / to have kept their oath with them / after they had understanded their fraud / considering that all oaths made against the commandment of god / are to be broken. And if it be said / that Joshua and the princes did evil in keeping their oath: the approbation off that fact is apparent in an other place / where the 1vengeance for the lord / fell upon all Israel by famine / and upon the house off Saul particularly / by executing those off his family: because the Gibeonites / had been (contrary to the tenure of the oath made with them) put to death. And unless this 2be admitted / we shall be compelled to condemn the spies / which entered into league with Rachab the Harlot: and Solomon / 3which received the Amorites / that voluntarily yielded them selves unto his obedience / and withal unto the obedience off the lord / as it may appear in the books off Esra / and Nehemiah: where their posterity (which are there called the sons off the servants of Solomon) having of old time / grow ne into one body off the church off god with the children of Israel: join themselves with them in the restoring of the temple. 4Whereupon the A. may understand / that the Scripture reasoneth negatively against the Israelites / in a thing whereof there was no commandment to the contrary.