A18080:431
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.
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.
Further if the Israelites had taken the calfe for their God: Moses in gyuing them yt to drinke after he had betē it to powder / should haue driuen them to a greate synne / and haue killed their consciences / in compellinge them to drincke that / whiche they were perswaded to be a peece of the true God / which browghte them owte of Aegypte. Whiche thinge when no man of any knowledge can saie: yt is certeine that Moses did thinke / that the Israelites did knowe that the calfe was not the true God. Beside that albeit Aaron faulted greuously / yet it is great iniurie doone vnto him / to thinck that euer he woulde haue either cawsed / or consented / a calfe to be made: if he thowghte that the Israelites woulde haue taken that / for the true God. yea after they had vttered that voice / Thes are they Gods, &c: Yt is saide that Aaron seinge that / made an altar before the calfe: Whiche he woulde neuer haue doone / if he had vnderstanded the Israelites as the D. doothe.
I had not the text before me / when I wrote / but I took the sense which I was well assured off. Seeing they both consented to Aaron saying / ye shall keep holy day to the Lord, 1and did so. Therefore although it be subject to the reprehension off a caviller: yet I altered nothing off the meaning off the place / in that I set down / that the Israelites said, they would keep holy day to the Lord.