A18080:430
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.
Moreover forasmuch as the knowledge off God / is a habit which god giveth by little and little / through teaching / it is impossible / that the Israelites so well instructed / and having given also good experience before / that they knew the true God: should so suddenly / at one instant / so many / leese all that knowledge off God / and take a calf to be that / which brought them out off the land of Egypt: but as it cam by little and little / so it must of necessity have a time / whereby it might by little / and little be lost. And hitherto is referred that which Master Calvin allegeth / off the consent off the people to that / which Aaron said off keeping holy day unto the lord: whereby they declared that they held that for good / which Aaron said.
Moreouer forasmuche as the knowledge off God / is a habyte whiche god gyuethe by lytle and lytle / throwghe teachinge / yt is impossible / that the Israelites so well instructed / and hauing gyuen also good experience before / that they knewe the trewe God: shoulde so sodenly / at one instante / so many / leese all that knowledge off God / and take a calfe to be that / whiche browghte them owte off the lande of Aegypte: but as yt cam by litell and litle / so it muste of necessitie haue a tyme / wherby it mighte by litle / and litle be loste. And hetherto is referred that which Maister Caluine alledgeth / off the consente off the people to that / whiche Aaron saide off kepinge holy daie vnto the lorde: wherby they declared that they helde that for good / whiche Aaron saide.
Further if the Israelites had taken the calf for their God: Moses in giving them it to drink after he had beaten it to powder / should have driven them to a great sin / and have killed their consciences / in compelling them to drink that / which they were persuaded to be a piece of the true God / which brought them out of Egypt. Which thing when no man of any knowledge can say: it is certain that Moses did think / that the Israelites did know that the calf was not the true God. Beside that albeit Aaron faulted grievously / yet it is great injury done unto him / to think that ever he would have either caused / or consented / a calf to be made: if he thought that the Israelites would have taken that / for the true God. yea after they had uttered that voice / Thes are they Gods, &c: It is said that Aaron seeing that / made an altar before the calf: Which he would never have done / if he had understanded the Israelites as the D. doth.