A18080:287
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.
Furthermore if Master Luther should by confuting off their heresies / shut out the corporal punishment off death: ⟨p. CXV⟩he hath the Answ. interpretation (which he calleth thē true meaning off the place) for enemy. So that either master Luther's meaning was / that they should not only put them to death / but also confute their heresies: or else it serveth as well to overthrow that / which the answerer hath set down / as that which we maintain.
Futhermore if Maister Luther shoulde by confutinge off their herysies / shut owte the corporall punishmente off deathe: ⟨p. CXV⟩he hath the Answ. interpretation (whiche he calleth thē true meaninge off the place) for enemie. So that either maister Luthers meaninge was / that they shoulde not onely put them to deathe / but also confute their heresies: or els yt serueth as well to ouerthrowe that / whiche the answerer hathe set downe / as that which we mainteine.
But observe here I beseech you / the shameful practise off the Answ. If Master Calvin / or Master Gualter upon thes places / had had any thing for him / that should have been set down: if they had had nothing against him / he would (as h• hath done in divers places) have used that nothing / as a prejudice unto the truth: now he perceived they were directly against him / he is fled to Master Luther / to borrow this sentence off him. What if I had alleged the authority off Master Calvin / Master Beza / Master Martyr / Master Gwalter / and divers others / for the confirmation off this sentence / that heretics ought to be put to death now / as well as false Prophets under the law: what if I had brought master Calvins / and master Gualters interpretation off this place off Zechariah / expounding it as I have done (whereof also one off them / calleth those fanatical spirits / which contrary this doctrine) What place should Master Luther's allegory have had / against such an host off learned men / coming so strongly with substantial arguments / fetched from the simple meaning off the scriptures? Yet all men of any reading know that this might easily have been done: if I would have sought to prejudice your part / by the authority off men