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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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Your conscience Master W. and the conscience of all men bear witness / that both here / and almost every where / you wring my words clean contrary to my meaning: and therein I am well content the Judgement remain with the reader. And although I am fully persuaded / that there was no occasion taken off evil by this doctrine: yet if any were / it being the doctrine of the holy Ghost / whoso ever hath taken occasion of evil / hath without repentance borne his punishment: and so shall you most assuredly in that day / wherein the mouth off wickedness shall be stopped.
Your conscience Maister W. and the conscience of all men beare witnes / that bothe here / and almoste euery where / yow wringe my wordes clean contrary to my meaninge: and therin I am well contente the Iudgemente remain with the reader. And althowghe I am fully perswaded / that ther was no occasion taken off euill by this doctrine: yet if any weare / it beinge the doctrine of the holy Goste / whoso euer hathe taken occasion of euill / hathe without repentance borne his punishemente: and so shall yowe moste assuredly in that daye / wherin the mouthe off wickednes shall be stopped.
It may not be passed by / that he in the beginning of the first of thes sections / matched the laws off the Jews / which were the laws given by God him self / with the laws of the most barbarous / and Profane Tyrant that ever was: such is the reverence he beareth to the laws of God. Note also that where I say / that I vvill join with him, that the transgressions off the law under the gospel, are to be severelyer punished, then they were under the law: He in pretending / and making a brag that he would join / slippeth me clean a side / and saith / that he will join with me that the magistrate is not bound to the judicial law off Moses, for the manner off punishing: as though that were any thing like / that which I propounded. And in that he answereth no one word / to the two reasons which I alleged / that is to say / for that both the knowledge off the law is greater now then then, and other gifts off the spirit off God, whereby the law should be better kept, more abundantly poured ⟨p. CXIX⟩