The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Furthermore / that this equity off the Judicial law / remaineth not as a counsel / which men may follow if they list / and leave at their pleasure / but as a law / whereunto they be ⟨p. XCVIII⟩bound: what better proof can we have / then the Apostle? Which after he had alleged divers similitudes / fetched off the common ¹use off men / to prove that a Minister off the Gospel / ought to be maintained off the churches charge / unto the adversary / which might except / that those were but humane reasons: he allegeth / as the eternal law off God / one off the Judicial laws ²off Moses / which was / that a man should not muzzle the mouth, of the ox which treadeth out the corn. Where it is manifest that he doubteth not / to bind the conscience off the Corinthians / ³unto the equity off that law / which was Judicial. Likewise / of the finding off the priests / in the service off the altar / commanded in the law: he concludeth / that those which preach the gospel / should live off it. And this maintenance off the priests / albeit in the manner off provision / it was ceremonial: yet as it was a reward of their service / due by men (as the punishments also / if they had failed in their duties) was mere judicial. Whereupon it is brought to pass / that in those judicials / to all the circumstances whereof we are not bound: we are notwithstanding bound to the equity.

Furthermore / that this equitie off the Iudiciall lawe / remaineth not as a counsaile / vvhich men may followe yf they list / and leaue at their pleasure / but as a lawe / vvhereunto they be ⟨p. XCVIII⟩bound: what better proofe can we haue / then the Apostle? Which after he had alledged diuers similitudes / fetched off the common ¹vse off men / to proue that a Minister off the Gospell / ought to be mainteined off the churches chardge / vnto the aduersarie / which might except / that those were but humane reasons: he alledgeth / as the eternall lawe off God / one off the Iudiciall lawes