The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

And if this knowledge were in the grossest Idolaters: how can such ignorance have been in the Israelites / as he imagineth? But I had forgotten the boy off the grammar school, whom he appointeth for my schoolmaster in this matter: whereas if ever he toke heed unto the first verse off Cato / he must needs give ¹witness of our side / that the gentiles toke God for a spirit / and not for a piece off wood / &c.

And iff this knowledge vvere in the grosseste Idolaters: howe can suche ignorance haue been in the Israelites / as he imaginethe? But I had forgotten the boye off the grammer scoole, whom he appointethe for my scoolemaister in this matter: wheras if euer he toke heede vnto the firste verse off Cato / he muste needes giue ¹vvitnesse of our side / that the gentils toke God for a spirite / and not for a peece off wood / &c.

1. 1Si Deus est animus, &c.

And this that is here spoken / off sundry off the Idolatrous Gentiles / S. Paul pronounceth off them all / where he going about to prove / that all the nations were shut under condemnation: ¹saith / that they knew God by his creatures, but did not glorify him as God. This opinion the Gentile had of one God / Justine martyr proveth / by that whensoever they entered into any earnest consideration off God / they were wont to name ²one God only. And that they imagined their Gods to be in heaven / besides that it is easy to gather off their gestures / in holding up their hands / and casting up their eyes unto heaven / as oft as they felt them selves in any danger: may likewise appear / where the Idolaters of Listra / and Derbe conceiving off Barnabas / and Paul as off Gods: to maintain that error off theirs / are driven to say / that they were cum downe from heaven: declaring thereby /