A18080:402
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.
Your allegation out off master Calvin touching the widows / is nothing for you / nothing to the cause. For what if he say / that the Apostle requireth that they should be beneficial: doth it therefore follow / that respect should not be had into their whole life. It may be easily understanded / that the apostle having drawn the office off a widow / through divers sorts of good works / because it had been to long / to recite all: shutteth up with that clause / as if he should say / that I stand not in rehearsal off all / I will have her such / as hath exercised her self in every good work.
Yowr allegatiōn owte off maister Caluin towching the widowes / is nothing for yow / nothing to the cause. For what if he saye / that the Apostell requireth that they shoulde be benyficiall: doothe yt therfore followe / that respecte shoulde not be had into their vvhole life. Yt may be easely vnsterstāded / that the apostel hauing drawne the office off a wydowe / throwghe diuers sortes of good workes / becawse yt had bene to longe / to recyte all: shutteth vp vvith that clause / as yf he shoulde saie / that I stande not in rehersall off all / I will haue her suche / as hathe exercised her selfe in euery good worke.
But I desire the reader to observe the unfaithfulness / and open corruption that he useth / in citing off master Calu. For his judgement being not called for / but answer required to the words of S. Paul / he hath taken that which serveth not to the purpose / and hath left out that in the exposition of the same verse / which is directly against that he allegeth master Calvin for. ⟨p. CLXXVII⟩Whose words are these / There is no doubt, b•t there were worshipful, and very reverent colleges, or companies off widows: 1therefore Paul vvill have none chosen thither, but such as be commended by a notable testimony, off their whole former life.