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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Tract. 2. and 3. according to the D. Off election of the minister.
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.
Solomon saith / that all the words of the mouth off god are plain to him that vvill understand, and strait to them 1that would find knowledge: Wherefore I marvel not / if the answer (because be would so fain have a broad way / where he may drive a sumpter horse / and is nor content with the lords path way) find many difficulties / and stops. But alas what pains he taketh in lifting at a feather. And of the three difficulties that are here moved / two of them (which are touching trial of him by sermon, or otherwise, and the fear least he should be an hypocrite) fall as well into the bishops choice / and examination as the peoples.
Salamon saith / that all the vvordes of the mouthe off god are plaine to him that vvill vnderstand, and streite to them 1that vvould finde knovvledge: Wherfore I meruaile not / if the answer (because be would so faine haue a broad vvay / wher he may driue a sumpter horse / and is nor contēt with the lordes path waie) finde many difficulties / and stoppes. But alas what paines he taketh in liftinge at a fether. And of the three difficulties that are here moued / two of them (whiche are towchinge triall of him by sermon, or otherwise, and the feare least he shoulde be an hipocrite) fall as well into the bishopps choise / and examination as the peoples.
Therefore the answer is / that that means which the Bishop may use / before he is Minister for his trial: that also may the church. And as the hypocrisy / which uttereth not it self / before 1