A18080:401
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 so far is it / that the gospel hath made this law void: that it hath also confirmed it. for if the ministry off the law / were so glorious / that it would not be handled off those / which had once fallen from it by Idolatry / although they did repent: how much more / ought the ministry off the gospel 1(which so surmounteth the ministry off the law / as the gospel doth the law) be untouched off such / as forsaking it / have defiled them selves with that sin? And if for a less fault / they were kept from a lower place in the church: for a greater fault / should not they much more be kept from a higher dignity? for whereas now the second time he faith / that under the law, there were certain corporal pollutions, which made a man unclean for a time: it proceedeth of too great ignorance off the Scripture / either in not knowing / in what short time those pollutions might be purged: or else assigning any cause off the Levites putting forth off their ministry for ever / for the pollutions which were in so few days cleansed.
And so farr is yt / that the gospell hath made this lawe voide: that yt hathe also confyrmed yt. for yf the ministerie off the lawe / were so gloriouse / that yt vvoulde not be handled off those / which had once fallen from yt by Idolatrie / althowghe they did repente: howe muche more / owghte the mynystrie off the gospell 1(which so surmounteth the mynisterie off the lawe / as the gospell dothe the lawe) be vntowched off suche / as forsaking yt / haue defyled them selues with that synne? And if for a lesse faulte / they were kepte from a lower place in the church: for a greater faulte / shoulde not they muche more be kepte from a higher dignitie? for wheras nowe the seconde tyme he faithe / that vnder the lawe, there were certeine corporall pollutions, which made a man vncleane for a tyme: yt proceadethe of too great ignorance off the Scripture / either in not knowing / in what shorte tyme those polutions mighte be purged: or els assigning anie cawse off the Leuytes putting forthe off their ministrie for euer / for the polutions which were in so fewe dayes clensed.