A18080:389
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.
And although it be hard to know / how they sought to add to S. Pauls bands / yet if be true that the greek Scholiast writeth / that they did it to this end / that the persecutors seeing the number off the professors of Christ / might (being more inflamed against S. Paul / as one which had sown the first seed) the rather hasten his death: who seeth not that it had been the churches part at Rome / to have to the uttermost off their power / endeavoured to have stopped the mouth off those preachers? therefore I am well assured / that if the godly off the church which was at Rome / could have restrained those preachers: they would not have suffered them / to have abused the gospel to his straighter imprisonment / much less to the taking away off his life. And therefore that they were not restrained / proveth nothing that they ought not by any means / so to have been: but rather argueth the fewness of the church / which favoured sincerity off the gospel / that S. Paul preached / which fewness also appeareth in an other place.1
And althowghe it be hard to knowe / how they sought to add to S. Paules bandes / yet if be trew that the greke Scoliast vvriteth / that they did it to this ende / that the persecutors seing the numbre off the professors of Christ / might (beinge more inflamed against S. Paul / as one vvhich had sowen the first seed) the rather hasten his death: vvho seeth not that it had bene the churches parte at Rome / to haue to the vttermost off their power / endeuored to haue stopped the mouth off those preachers? therfore I am well assured / that yf the godlie off the church vvhich vvas at Rome / could haue restreyned those preachers: they vvould not haue suffred them / to haue abused the gospell to his streighter imprisonment / much lesse to the taking away off his life. And therfore that they were not restreined / proueth nothinge that they owght not by any meanes / so to haue bene: but rather argueth the fewnes of the church / which fauoured sinceritie off the gospell / that S. Paule preached / which fewnes also appeareth in an other place.1
- 1•. Tim. 4. 16.