The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

In the places out off Jeremiah / and Isay / it is evident / that there is set forth / how there shall be greater knowledge off the will off god / under the Gospel / then under the Law. And even that which I have set down / off the people which should be as learned under the Gospel / as the Levites / and Priests under the law: beside that it containeth a manifest truth, and therefore can not be to flatter the people (as he surmiseth): may be also gathered off the 5. verse off the 56. chap. off Isaiah. Where the Lord / promising to bring the Gentiles into a better place of his temple / then the Jews had before / doth not obscurely declare / that which I said.

In the places owt off Ieremy / and Isay / yt is euident / that there is set forthe / howe there shalbe greater knowledge off the will off god / vnder the Gospell / then vnder the Lawe. And euen that which I haue set downe / off the people which should be as learned vnder the Gospell / as the Leuites / and Priestes vnder the lawe: beside that yt conteineth a manifest truthe, and therfore can not be to flatter the people (as he surmiseth): may be also gathered off the 5. verse off the 56. chap. off Isaie. Where the Lord / promising to bring the Gentils into a better place of his temple / then the Iewes had before / dothe not obscurely declare / that which I saide.

Unto the two next divisions pag 118 / &c. for reply I say / that he answereth not to the matter. For the question is not / whether we have fewer or moe laws then they / but whether we have direction by those laws which we have / to all things whatsoever ⟨p. XCIIII⟩belongeth unto us to do / as they had to do that / which appertained unto them. To prove that there is a word off God / for all things we have to do: I alleged / that otherwise our estate should be worse, than the estate of the lewes: Which the Ans. confesseth to have had direction, out of law, in the lest thing they had to do. And when it is the virtue off a good law / to leave as little undetermined / and without the compass off the law / as can be: the A. in imagining / that we have no word for divers things / wherein the Jews had particular direction: presupposeth greater perfection in the law / given unto the Jews / then in that which is left unto us. And that this is a principal virtue off the law / may be seen / not only by that I have showed / that a conscience well instructed / and touched with the fear off God / seeketh for the light off the word off God / in the smallest actions: but even by common reason / the masters whereof give this rule / [Greek or Hebrew], that is to say / that it greatly