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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.
So that if they had been persuaded off him / as off a Christian: they would have admitted him into the church / without the Testimony of Barnabas.
So that yf they had bene persuaded off him / as off a Christian: they vvould haue admitted him into the church / withowt the Testymonie of Barnabas.
Touching the place of the kings 1. 12. 3•. The holy Ghost doth there / lay to Jeroboam's charge / both that he made them 1off the basest off the people / which was a great profanation of the Ministry: and that he toke them not out off the tribe off Levy / which was an other fault. For if he had taken off the wisest / and honestest families of other tribes / he would not have said that he toke them of the basest of the people. And therefore that place was fitly alleged in that sense which I set down: and you that can see no other cause, why it should be quoted, unless it were to prove that the ministry should be tied to one degree, or calling: do your self more injury / then a modest adversary would. For the light off the place is such / that it will suffer no man to be ignorant / which hath but half an eye to see. And yet you blush not to require in your next section / an other answer unto it. I could have repeated my ⟨p. CLXII⟩answer as you have there twice hard together / objected the same thing: but if I be not able to entertain my reader / with that variety which I would: yet would I be loth to deceive him / and make him believe / that mutton roasted / and roasted mutton be two several dishes. For let the reader judge / whether there be any other difference / between that which you confess my answer unto / and that first section in the page following / whereunto you require answer: and with those coleworts twice sodden / you see I was content to let you goo / as I have done with a number off other your faults. To the rest I answer not.