The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

What is the necessity off Judicials / I have declared. Touching ¹the not entry off the incircumcised in heart, and flesh into the sanctuary of the lord, which the Ans. allegeth to prove / that the law touching the rejecting off Idolatrous priests, is abolished: change the sanctuary into church / which it be tokeneth / and incircumcision into the want off baptism / which was the same under the law / which this is under the gospel: and then it is the moral / and everlasting law off God / that none which is heathenish in mind / and withal professeth the same / by the not receiving off the holy Sacrament off baptism / should be admitted to the church off God. And if he say / that it is not perpetual / for that incircumcision of the flesh / is now no fault: he ought to understand / that the estate off the church in the gospel / is shadowed out by those things / which were used under the law: As when it is said / there shall be an altar built up unto the lord in the middest off Egypt, that their shall be no Canaanite in all the mountain ²off God. And therefore as the removing off altars out off the church / which then were in use / and receiving in one off the nation off Canaan into the church / which was then unlawful / derogateth nothing from the stableness of these laws: so the admitting off one which is incircuncised in flesh / doth nothing diminish the unchangeableness off that law / which the Prophet there mentioneth. I am well content therefore that these two be matched / and that they die / and live together.

What is the necessitie off Iudicialls / I haue declared. Touchinge ¹the not entrie off the incircumcised in harte, and fleshe into the sanctuarie of the lord, vvhich the Ans. alledgeth to proue / that the law touching the reiectinge off Idolatrous priestes, is abolished: change the sanctuarie into church / vvhich it be tokeneth / and incircumcision into the want off baptisme / vvhich vvas the same vnder the law / vvhich this is vnder the gospell: and then it is the morall / and euerlastinge law off God / that none vvhich is heathenish in minde / and vvithall professeth the same / by the not receiuinge off the holie Sacrament off baptisme / should be admitted to the church off God. And if he saie / that it is not perpetuall / for that incircumcision of the fleshe / is now no fault: he owght to vnderstand / that the estate off the church in the gospell / is shadowed owt by those thinges / vvhich vvere vsed vnder the law: As vvhen it is said / there shalbe an aulter built vp vnto the lord in the middest off Aegypte, that their shalbe no Canamite in all the mountaine