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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.
Nether was it enough for you to pass by my reason / but you must most shamefully move suspicion unto the reader / off my favouring off the popish bigamy. What likelihood is there between whoredom / or having two wives at once: with having two wines one after the death off an other / or marrying a widow / which the Papists call bigamy? if you have no fear of God before your eyes: is there no reverence off men?
Nether was it enowghe for yow to passe by my reason / but yow must most shamefullie moue suspition vnto the reader / off my fauoring off the popishe bigamie. What likelihoode is there betwene whoredome / or hauing two wiues at once: with hauing two wines one after the deathe off an other / or marying a vvidowe / vvhich the Papistes call bigamie? yff yow haue no feare of God before your eies: ys there no reuerence off men?
The first off your reasons / to prove that a known adulterer may be received into the ministry: is that S. Paul by forbidding to receive unto the ministry, one which had been a whoremonger, or which had two wives at once should deal otherwise with them, then he was dealt with all him self. I gave the reason off this in the section following / that our Sau. Christ (having the law in his own hand / and making no law to him self / but for us) might do that which is not lawful for the church to do: which reason being neither answered here / nor else where / ought to have stayed you from this answer. I gave this weapon / but I turned the edge of it / and made it flat: it was not therefore to war with all / unless you had set a new edge.
The first off your reasons / to proue that a knowen adulterer may be receiued into the ministerie: is that S. Paule by forbidding to receiue vnto the ministerie, one which had bene a whoremonger, or which had two wiues at once should deale otherwise withe them, then he was dealt withe all him selfe. I gaue the reason off this in the section folowinge / that our Sau. Christ (hauing the law in his owne hande / and making no law to him selffe / but for vs) might doo that which is not lawfull for the churche to doo: whiche reason being neither answered here / nor els where / owght to haue staied yow frō this answer. I gaue this weapō / but I turned the edge of it / ād made it flat: yt was not therfore to warre vvithe all / vnlesse yow had set a new edge.