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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
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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.
That which I brought off Ananias, and Sapphira, was to prove there was no such community amongest them as your answer supposed / and to glaze up the the windows of Anabaptistry / which you had opened. And surely if the anabaptists had (as they neither have / nor can have) warrant of their community / by this example off the most purest / and ancientest church / and in deed then the only church in the world / approved by all the Apostles replenished with the spirit off God: they should have stronger hold then M. D. should ever be able to pull from them. I do not think you favour the Anabaptists community, but partly seduced off others / and partly overcaried with the violence off your affections: you are unawares fallen into that error / whereby the Anabaptists ground it.
That which I browghte off Ananias, and Saphira, was to proue there was no suche communitie amongeste them as yowr answer supposed / and to glase vp the the windowes of Anabaptistry / vvhich yow had opened. And surely if the anabaptistes had (as they neither haue / nor can haue) warrant of their communitie / by this example off the moste pureste / and ancientest church / and in deede then the onely church in the worlde / approued by all the Apostels replenished vvith the spirite off God: they shoulde haue stronger houlde then M. D. shoulde euer be hable to pull from them. I doo not thincke yow fauour the Anabaptistes communitie, but partly seduced off others / and partely overcaried vvith the violence off yowr affections: yow are vnawars fallen into that errer / vvherby the Anabaptistes grownde it.
Where I said / that all off the church did not sell their possessions: I confess the word possession / was not so advisedly put / seeing thereby is properly signified house / and land / and those which we call unmovable goods: which Saint Luke saith were sold off as many as had them. But yet nothing falleth of that for which I did alleged it: and it is rather thereby confirmed. For showing that all owners off house / and land did sell them / and not that every one which had other goods did the like: thereby is given to understand / that not every one which had money / or other movables / brought them unto the Apostles.