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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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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.
Where he saith / that if a man should do nothing whereof he hath not assurance by the word off God, that he doth well: that thereby should be overthrown Christian liberty in indifferent things: the fault is / in his want off understanding. For even those things that are indifferent / and may be done / have their freedom grounded off the word off God: so that onlesse the word off the lord / either in general or especial words / had determined off the free use off them: there could have been no lawful use off them at all. And when he seethe / that S. Paul speaketh here off civill / private / and indifferent actions / as off eating this or that kind of meat (then the which their can be nothing more indifferent:) he might easily have seen / that the sentence off the Apostle / reacheth even to his case / off taking up a straw. For if this rule be off indifferent things / and not off all: I would gladly know off him / what indifferent things it is given off / and off what not. And the same also I require off him in the other general rule / off doing all things to the glory off god. For if that reach unto all indifferent things it must needs comprise also this action of his. Which if it do / then as no man can glorify God / but by obedience / and here is no obedience / but where there is a word: it must follow / that their is a word.
Where he saithe / that if a man should do nothinge wheroff he hathe not assurance by the word off God, that he dothe well: that therby should be ouerthrowne Christian libertie in indifferent thinges: the faulte is / in his want off vnderstanding. For euen those thinges that are indifferent / and maye be donne / haue their fredome grounded off the word off God: so that onlesse the word off the lord / either in generall or especiall wordes / had determined off the free vse off them: there could haue bene no lawfull vse off them at all. And when he seethe / that S. Paule speaketh here off ciuill / priuate / and indifferent actions / as off eating this or that kind of meate (then the which their can be nothing more indifferent:) he might easely haue seene / that the sentence off the Apostle / reacheth euen to his case / off taking vpp a straw. For iff this rule be off indifferent thinges / and not off all: I would gladlie know off him / what indifferent thinges it is giuen off / and off what not. And the same also I require off him in the other generall rule / off doing all thinges to the glorie off god. For iff that reache vnto all indifferent thinges it must needes comprise also this action of his. Which iff it doo / then as no man can glorifie God / but by obedience / and here is no obedience / but where there is a worde: it must followe / that their is a worde.