The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

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 ¹behoveth those laws, which are well made (as much as can be) to determine of all things, and to leave as few things as may be to the discretion off the judges. Where he saith / that the examples I brought off orders / which the Jews did well observe / whereof there was no express mention in the law off God / make not to the purpose, for that, he spake off ceremonies, used about the worship off God: I answer / that that which I have alleged is a manifest confutation off those words / which he hath set down / nether was there the least thing, to be done in the church, omitted in the law. For are not these things / which I brought example off / to be done in the church: are they not Ecclesiastical orders: yea are not part off them (which he denieth) pertaining to the service off God?

Vnto the twoo next diuisions pag 118 / &c. for replie I saie / that he answereth not to the matter. For the questiō is not / whether we haue fewer or moe lawes then they / but whether we haue direction by those lawes which we haue / to all thinges whatsoeuer ⟨p. XCIIII⟩