A18080:396
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.
yet it can not be so sure thereof / as it is off the unfaithfulness. So that in weighing the repentance / which is uncertain / with the counterpoise of his unfaithfulness / that is certain: it will be hard to conceive that strength of opinion / off his ••faithfulnes / whereupon they may adventure / to put him again in trust with the church. At the lest / if there be one fit for the Ministry / which never was stained with that fault: all men must needs grant / that he is meeter / to satisfy the consciences off the choosers / then the other: which the Ans. denieth.
yet it can not be so sure thereoff / as it is off the vnfaithfulnes. So that in vveighing the repentaunce / which is vncertaine / vvith the counterpoise of his vnfaithfulnes / that is certaine: it will be harde to conceiue that strenght of opinion / off his ••faithfulnes / wherupon they may aduenture / to put him againe in trust with the church. At the leste / if there be one fit for the Ministerie / which neuer was stained with that fault: all men must needes graunt / that he is meeter / to satisfie the consciences off the chusers / then the other: vvhich the Ans. denieth.
And as before I have showed / that the example of our Sau. Christ / ⟨p. CLXXIIII⟩in putting. S. Paul / and S. Peter into the ministry / is not to be followed off us: So upon the matter I have here alleged / it may 1easily appear why. That is to say / for as much as he knew the heart off man / and saw their cogitations long before they were conceived: he needed not any time to try / how they would behave them selves in their ministry / nor any either Testimonies / or arguments of former life / to help his persuasion off their fitness thereunto. Therefore he knowing / both by the fullness off the spirit off discretion / given him without measure / and by his divine knowledge / how faithfully they would employ themselves in that ministry: might well open the door unto those / against whom the church ought to keep it shut.