A18080:410
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.
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.
Yt makethe nothing to the purpose that is heere alledged / of the vnchaungablenes of the mercye of god: or that owte off S. Paule to Timothie. As if the question were / whether they vvhiche had fallen from the ministerye of the gospell to Idolatrie / shoulde be receiued to mercie: or that the mercie off God were denied vnto him / to whom the ministrie is denied: or as if mercy / and correction coulde not stande to gether: or as if the Leuites receiued not mercie / bothe of God / and off the churche / whiche receiued not their ministerie: or as thowghe Ciprian / and other fathers / whiche ⟨p. CLXXX⟩shutte the doore of the ministerie againste suche / were not enemies vnto those that denied repentance vnto the fallen / when Ciprian callethe Nonatus (author off that error) the murtherer off repentaunce. I meruaile therfore what he meaneth / thus to goo abowte to abuse his reader / in seeminge to saie something / when he saith nothing.
In the end he saith / that these examples off our Saviour Christ, are not to be followed in all points. In what points to be followed? and in what to be avoided? this was necessary to have been showed. And have you forgotten / what you asked off me: how I knew certain things to be followed, and other not? and how either all must