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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.
It is not (as the A. surmiseth untruly) that the magistrate is simply bound unto the judicial laws off Moses: but that he is bound to the equity / which I also called the substance / and marrow off them. In regard off which equity / I affirmed that there are certain laws amongest the Judicials / which can not be changed. And hereof I gave example / in the laws which command / that a stubborn Idolater / blasphemer / murderer / incestuous person / and such like / should be put to death. For the first point / that the equity of the judicials doth remain / and therefore ought to be a rule / to 1direct all laws by / to let pass the authority of M. Calvin / M. Beza / ⟨p. XCVI⟩and other writers off our time / that have written with any judgement off this matter (which do in plain words affirm that 2there is a perpetual equity in them / and that our laws albeit they differ in form / yet ought to retain the reason / or ground of them) I say to let that pass: it is to be considered / that all these laws moral / Ceremonial / and Judicial being the laws off God / and by his revealed will established / must so far forth remain / as it appeareth not by his will / that they are revoked.
It is not (as the A. surmiseth vntruly) that the magistrate is simply bound vnto the iudicial lawes off Moses: but that he is bound to the equitie / which I also called the substance / and marrowe off them. In regard off vvhich equitie / I affirmed that there are certen lawes amongest the Iudicialles / which can not be chaunged. And hereof I gaue example / in the lawes vvhich command / that a stubbern Idolater / blasphemer / murtherer / incestuous person / and suche like / should be put to death. For the first point / that the equitie of the iudicialls doth remaine / ād therfore owght to be a rule / to 1direct al lawes by / to let passe the autoritie of M. Caluin / M. Beza / ⟨p. XCVI⟩and other writers off our time / that haue writen with any iudgement off this matter (which doo in plaine wordes affirme that