A18080:261
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.
Howbeit having spoken somewhat before / off the civill punishment off those which offend against the service off God / and more being to be said upon occasion afterward: that the necessary punishment off murderers by death / may have with the rest some particular defence / let some thing be said thereof. First the consent off all nations (were they never so savage) in punishing this sin with death / teacheth that it is the law of nature: which can not be broken / nor dispensed with. it is further to be noted / that the causes remaining / whereupon that necessity off punishment by death / was grounded in the law: the punishment must still remain. The Lord showeth these causes / 1of not saving the life off a murderer at any hand / first because the blood which his hand hath shed, polluteth the land, so that there can be no purgation off it, but in the blood off the murderer: secondly / because the Israelites, / which were the people of God) and thirdly / because the lord him self, had his abode there. considering first / that the strength of this sin in polluting a land / is as great as ever it was (onles for grace / given to one murderer / men will / call the wrath off God / upon a whole people:) the necessity off putting murderers to death remaineth unshaken. Then / forasmuch as Christian common wealths / are the people off God / amongest whom he maketh special residence: beside the ⟨p. CIII⟩common obligation / whereby all men are bound in the law of nature / to punish a murderer by death: Christian common wealths / have two new bonds / whereby they are tied to a more straighter observation / of this severity. Last of all / as this judicial law was given of God long before Moses: so not to be in the 2number off laws / corrected by the coming of our Sa. Christ: it is manifest by his own words / whereby he confirmed this law of God / saying / that whosoever took up the sword should 3perish with the sword. And there is no doubt / but if he had had like occasion / to speak of other civil punishment by death / established in the law / as he had of this / he would have brought the same confirmation of them / that he did off this.