The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Here he accuseth me of falsifying his words / which have ⟨p. LXXII⟩charged him with saying / that it is an indifferent thing to preach the word of God in churches or houses privately or publicly: wherein he still uttereth his forehead / harder then any steel. For thes being his own words / that the scripture speaketh not a word of preaching or baptizing, openly or privately, at home or in the church: doth he not say the same that I lay unto him. What is indifferent / if that be not / which the scripture saith not a word of / hath not prescribed / hath not determined / hath not appointed? all which phrases he useth / as those which signify the same thing. And when he addeth in the end / that there is none so simple, that understandeth, not that the church hath authority to take order in thes things: doth he not affirm the same? for the church hath authority only in indifferent things to take order. So that it is more manifest then the day / that which I have charged him with ones / he hath said twice / although not in the same / yet in as full words. And where he asketh / whether it be all one to say / the scripture hath not determined whether baptism should be ministered openly or privately, at home or in the church, and to say / the church may make baptism private or public: verily they are in mine and I think in all other indifferent judgement / all one: and if they were not / yet as I have showed / you have said both the one / and the other.

Here he accusethe me of falsifying his wordes / whiche haue ⟨p. LXXII⟩