The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

If it be a rule to be followed it must be followed wholly, saith the answer. This is very definitively / and magistrally said: and being a dangerous error (as that which tendeth to the overthrow of the chiefest heads of Christian religion) is notwithstanding farced / with scoffing questions in derision off the truth. I never learned, nor I do not use / to add, or take away from the word off God: I expound the scripture / and gather off it / which is not to add: and in saying / that something is not to be followed off us, I take nothing away: for I confess it to be so as the story reporteth. And although that part be no example to follow: yet even now / and to the end / it containeth a profitable doctrine. But if I take away from the scripture / because I say / that some Part of that action is not to be followed: you do much more / that say / nothing ⟨p. CXXIIII⟩thereof is to be followed. I distinguish between that which was for a time / and that which is perpetual: and to distinguish / is not to dismember. Al the revelations I have / are out off the revealed word off God: I know that this part off this action, touching the examination / is to be followed, because it is confirmed by other places off the scripture: the other not so / for that it hath not / the like confirmation. This spirit off slumber / wherewith the lord hath stricken you in that you say / that if a rule be to be followed it is to be observed wholly: shall better appear when I come to your answer / of that which is written in the 51. and 112. pages of my former book / where this is handled.

Yf yt be a rule to be folowed yt must be followed wholy, saith the answere. This is very definitiuely / and magistrally said: and being a dangerous error (as that vvhich tendeth to the ouerthrowe of the cheifest heads of Christian religion) is notwithstanding farced / with scoffing questions in derision off the truthe. I neuer learned, nor I doo not vse / to add, or take away from the word off God: I expounde the scripture / and gather off it / vvhich is not to add: and in saying / that something is not to be follovved off vs, I take nothing away: for I confesse yt to be so as the storie reporteh. And althoughe that parte be no example to follow: yet euen now / and to the ende / yt conteinethe a profitable doctrine. But if I take away from the scripture / because I say / that some Parte of that action is not to be follovved: you do muche more / that saye / nothing ⟨p. CXXIIII⟩