The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Secondly / it followeth hereupon / that those judicial laws off Moses / which are merely politic / and without all mixture off Ceremonies / must remain / as those which hinder not / the atonement off the Jews / and Gentiles with God / or off one off them / with an other. Beside that / it being manifest / that our Sa Christ came not / to dissolve any Good government off common wealth: he can least off all be thought / to have come to dissolve that which him self had established. And off this point / the Ans. hath two contrary sentences: one off Musculus / which saith / that the judicial law is abrogated, the other off Beza / which is the same with that which I have brought reasons off: that is to say / that the judicial law being given unto the Jews, is not ¹yet abrogated, so that if they had any estate off common wealth, in the Land off Canaan, they should be constrained, to use that form off government, which was given unto them of Moses. Now albeit those laws / given unto the Jews for that land do not bind the Gentiles in other lands / for so much as the diversity off the disposition of the people / and state off that country gave occasion off some laws there / which would not have been in other places / and peoples: yet forsomuche as / there is in those laws a constant / and everlasting equity / whereupon they were grounded / and the same perfecter / and farther from error / then the forge off mans reason / (which is even in this behalf / shrewdly wounded) is able to devise: it followeth / that even in making politic laws / for the common wealth / Christian Magistrates ought to propound unto them selves those laws / and in light of their equity / by a just proportion off circumstances off person / place / &c. frame them.

Secondly / it foloweth hereuppon / that those iudiciall lawes off Moses / which are merely politik / and withowt all mixture off Ceremonies / must remaine / as those which hinder not / the atonement off the Iewes / and Gentils with God / or off one off them / with an other. Beside that / it being manifest / that our Sa Christ came not / to dissolue any Good gouernement off commen wealthe: he can least off all be thowght / to haue comme to dissolue that which him selffe had established. And off this point / the Ans. hath twoo contrary sentences: one off Musculus / which saith / that the iudiciall lavve is abrogated, the other off Beza / which is the same with that which I haue brought reasons off: that is to say / that the iudiciall lavve being giuen vnto the Ievves, is not