A18080:481
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.
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.
First / as a truant loth to go to school / seeketh the furthest way: so the A. afraid off the light off Cyprian's words / maketh entrance into this sentence by half a score lines / which might have been in one. Here good reader as the A calleth for ⟨p. CCXIII⟩thy diligence / so if thou give a little heed: thou shalt see such open / and violent perverting / as could not be done without crack off conscience.
Firste / as a trewante lothe to goe to scoole / seeketh the furthest vvaie: so the A. afraide off the lighte off Ciprians vvordes / makethe entrance into this sentence by halfe a score lines / vvhich mighte haue bene in one. Heere good reader as the A callethe for ⟨p. CCXIII⟩thy diligence / so if thowe gyue a litle heede: thow shalte see suche open / and violente peruertinge / as coulde not be doone withowte cracke off conscience.
First therefore let us hold that (which I think is accorded off both parts) that Cyprian's purpose is to withdraw the people / from communicating with the ministry off those / which had fallen from the gospel unto Idolatry. To the confirmation whereof when he had alleged / the grievousness off that crime: he addeth / especially seeing the people have power to choose worthy, and to refuse unworthy ministers. As if he should say / if it were not in your power / to refuse those unworthy ministers / you might have some excuse: or if being in your power to refuse the unworthy / you had not also power to choose another worthy / you might have likewise somewhat for excuse. For you might allege peradventure / that it were better to keep him still / then to be with out altogether / or to have another as evil / or worse then he. but seeing you have both power to refuse the unworthy / and to a choose another: there must needs be fault. That this is the meaning off Cyprian / and his argument wherewith he calleth them back / from communicating with the ministry off those which had fallen: all which can set the nominative case / and verb together / must needs understand.