A18080:409
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.
I have spoken this / neither to excuse Saint Peter / whom I know to have sinned heinously / nor to throw down the seat off mercy against those / which have thus sinned / which standeth sure upon the brazen pillars off the promises off God / to all which do repent: but to this end / that I might show / how untrue it is / that is here so avouched off the Ans. that S. Peters fault was more grievous, then any kind off idolatry. and that such as have so sinned / understanding their sin to be of a longer last / than S. Peters / might not deceive them selves in the measure.
I haue spoken this / neither to excuse Saint Peter / whom I knowe to haue sinned heinouslie / nor to throwe downe the seate off mercie agayinste those / which haue thus sinned / whiche standeth sure vppon the brasen pillers off the promisses off God / to all which doo repente: but to this ende / that I mighte shewe / howe vntrewe it is / that is here so auouched off the Ans. that S. Peters faulte was more greuous, then any kinde off idolatrie. and that suche as haue so sinned / vnderstanding their sinne to be of a longer laste / thē S. Peters / mighte not deceiue them selues in the measure.
It maketh nothing to the purpose that is here alleged / of the unchangeableness of the mercy of god: or that out off S. Paul to Timothy. As if the question were / whether they which had fallen from the ministry of the gospel to Idolatry / should be received to mercy: or that the mercy off God were denied unto him / to whom the ministry is denied: or as if mercy / and correction could not stand together: or as if the Levites received not mercy / both of God / and off the church / which received not their ministry: or as though Cyprian / and other fathers / which ⟨p. CLXXX⟩shut the door of the ministry against such / were not enemies unto those that denied repentance unto the fallen / when Cyprian calleth Nonatus (author off that error) the murderer off repentance. I marvel therefore what he meaneth / thus to goo about to abuse his reader / in seeming to say something / when he saith nothing.