The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

If the plain words off the Prophet Zechariah / will not serve for our purpose: what shall become off your cause / that hath never a word of the scripture? let us then hear / why it will not serve. Because forsooth by that means, the parents should have power of death upon their children: and therefore their must some other sense be sought / then that which the words do purport. Whereunto I answer / that Moses showing what ought be ¹done / against those false teachers / which go about secretly / to withdraw from the true worship of God: saith / that although he be his brother / his soon / his daughter / or his wife / he shall not spare / but fill them. Tell men owe I pray you / doth not Moses mean there truly / and as his words sound / that the false teacher shall die? If you dare not deny it: then you see / your reason which you here assign / is nothing worth: for there also / it is commanded to the father / to kill his son.

Yff the plaine wordes off the Prophete Zacharie / will not serue for our pourpose: what shall become off your cause / that hathe neuer a worde of the scripture? let vs then heare / why it will not serue. Because forsoothe by that meanes, the parentes shoulde haue powre of deathe vppon their children: and therfore their muste some other sense be sowgthe / then that vvhiche the vvordes doo proporte. Wherunto I answere / that Moses shewinge vvhat owghte be ¹doone / agaīste those false teachers / whiche goe abowte secretly / to vvithdrawe frō the trewe worship of God: saithe / that allthoughe he be his brother / his soōe / his dawgther / or his wiffe / he shal not spare / but fill them. Tell men owe I praie yow / doothe not Moses meane there truly / and as his vvordes sounde / that the false teacher shall die? If yow dare not denie yt: then yow see / yowr reason vvhiche yow heere assigne / is nothing vvorthe: for there also / yt is commanded to the father / to kill his sonne.

1. 1Deut. 13. 9. ver.