The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

And although thes things are so plain / that they could not lightly be hidden from him / that hath but moved his lip to the cup of sound divinity: yet master D. standeth still amazed / marvelling as he that having stepped many years / when he awaked / thought all things strange. Thes are the known laws of the house where you were borne / where also you undertake profession of Do. it is a great fault that you are a stranger at home. The peoples examination off their ministers especially / standeth in their behaviour: And seeing in the church off God / from him that cleaveth wood / to her which grindeth in the mill / there is none so ignorant / but know / and can give reason off principal points off the Christian religion: the Elders (which be the flower off the church) can much less be so ignorant as you make them. Naashe ¹the Ammonite / meaning to dishonour the people off God / thought it reproach enough to the Gilcades / if he might have put out their right eyes / and (although a barbarous / and ⟨p. CXLI⟩cruel enemy off the people off God) yet would have satisfied him self with that; but you are not content with that / onles you put out both their eyes / and leave them as blind / and ignorant buzzards. Thes reproaches off ignorance / so oftentimes caste upon the people off God / are not spoken with the tongue off Canaan / but is the proper dialect off the Papists / and it is reproachful not unto men / but unto the Son off God / whose body the church is / and whereof he is the head.

And althoughe thes thinges are so plaine / that they coulde not lightly be hyddē from him / that hathe but moued his lypp to the cuppe of sounde diuinitie: yet maister D. standeth still amased / merueiling as he that hauing stepte manie years / whē he awaked / thowghte al thinges straunge. Thes are the knowē lawes of the howse where yow were borne / where also yow vndertake professiō of Do. yt is a great fault that yow are a straūger at home. The peoples examinatiō off their ministers especially / standeth in their behauiour: And seinge in the churche off God / from him that cleaueth wood / to her which grindethe in the mill / ther is none so ignorant / but knowe / and can giue reason off principall poinctes off the Christian religion: the Elders (which be the flowre off the church) can much lesse be so ignorant as yowe make them. Naashe ¹