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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.
For the Poets / the saying of Virgil / all are full off Jupiter: may declare / that the honour / and service which the Gentiles did to the Images / bests / and other creatures which they worshipped / was for an opinion that they had / off the presence off Jupiter in •hose things / and not for the things them selves. and there wanted not divers amongest them / which said / there was but one God / which they called Jupiter / and that Apollo / Venus / Diana / &c. Were but virtues / or parts of Jupiter / so that in those they worshipped Jupiter. And although the Egyptians / were comparable in grossness off Idolatry / with any nation: Yet Isocrates thus writeth off their manner off worship. He appointed off all sorts off divine worship, o• exercise unto 1them, and made a law for the worshipping off beasts, despised amongest us: not that he was ignorant off their power / but because he would accustom the people / to the obedience off those things which were commanded by their princes: ⟨p. CLXXXVI⟩and withal / meaning thereby to take a proof / how they were affected towards the invisible thing / by things visible. Here you hear the Philosophers / the Poets / the Orators (which were the Prophets off the gentiles): yet none ascribeth unto them such a dotage / as to think a piece off wood / &c. to be God.
For the Poetes / the saying of Virgill / all are full off Iupiter: maie declare / that the honour / and seruice which the Gentills did to the Images / bestes / and other creaturs whiche they worshipped / vvas for an opinion that they had / off the presence off Iupiter in •hose thinges / and not for the thinges them selues. and there wanted not diuers amongeste them / whiche saide / there was but one God / vvhiche they called Iupiter / and that Appollo / Venus / Diana / &c. Were but vertues / or partes of Iupiter / so that in those they worshipped Iupiter. And althowghe the Egyptians / vvere comparable in grossnes off Idolatrie / withe any nation: Yet Isocrates thus writeth off their manner off vvorshipp. He appoincted off all sortes off diuine vvorship, o• exercise vnto 1