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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.
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 / 3that the received opinion off them was: that the ordinary Gods / were in heaven. For it is not to be doubted / but they had the images of Jupiter / and Mercury which they worshipped in that place: and yet they did not take them for their Gods / but Imagined that the Gods whereof those were the Images / were in heaven.
And this that is here spoken / off sondrie off the Idolatrous Gentils / S. Paule pronouncethe off them all / vvhere he goinge abowte to proue / that all the nations vvere shut vnder condemnation: 1saithe / that they knevve God by his creatures, but did not glorifie him as God. This opininion the Gentile had of one God / Iustine martyr prouethe / by that vvhensoeuer they entred into any earneste consyderation off God / they vvere vvonte to name 2one God onely. And that they imagined their Godds to be in heauen / besides that yt is easie to gather off their gestures / in holdinge vp their handes / ād castinge vp their eyes vnto heauen / as ofte as they felte thē selfes in any daunger: may likewise appeare / where the Idolaters of Listra / and Derbe conceiuing off Barnabas / and Paule as off Goddes: to mainteine that error off theirs / are driuen to saie / that they were cum dovvne from heauen: declaringe therby /