The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

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.

I had not the texte before me / when I wrote / but I tooke the sense which I was well assured off. Seinge they bothe consented to Aaron saying / ye shall kepe holy day to the Lorde, ¹and did so. Therfore allthowghe it be subiecte to the reprehension off a cauiller: yet I altered nothinge off the meaninge off the place / in that I set downe / that the Israelites saide, they vvould kepe holy day to the Lord.

1. 1Exod. 32. 6.

I put you over to the learned writers, and now I have told you off two / which do in plain words / whet their stiles directly against your distinction. You mislike off the distinction, but you are driven to use it: you excuse not the papists, but you lessen their crime / and therefore you may well be called their Patron. For it is a precept amongest the Rhetoricians / that if the clients fault be apparent: the advocate should confess it / and then employ the strength off his wit / to cause it seem as little as may be. And where in the distinction of degrees off Idolatry / you say / that the Jews did oftentimes offend in the last, and the worst, and the Papists not you in deed say it / and say it again / but you bring nothing to prove it once. I could reply / that the Papists used more detestable Idolatry / then ever did the Jews. For show me by any good authority / or reason / that the Jews did ever think / or teach / that a dead Image off wood / and stone should be worshipped with the honour off the holy trinity: and this notwithstanding