A18080:500
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.
If this I have alleged off laying on off hands upon the ordained / be a Ceremonial law / which took end by the coming off our Saviour Christ: then the Apostles were injurious unto his death / that translated that Ceremony from the Jews under the law / into the church under the Gospel. Therefore in this point you have to do with the Apostles / and not with me. For as under the law the governors / and the people consenting into one action / testified the same by laying on off hands off the governors only: so under the Gospel the elders / and people consenting in the election off one / do testify it by laying on off hands off the Elders only.
Yff this I haue alledged off layinge on off handes vpon the ordeined / bee a Ceremoniall lawe / which tooke ende by the comming off our Sauiour Christe: then the Apostels vvere iniurious vnto his deathe / that translated that Ceremonie from the Iewes vnder the lawe / into the churche vnder the Gospell. Therfore in this poincte yow haue to doo with the Apostles / and not with me. For as vnder the lawe the gouernoures / and the people consentinge into one action / testified the same by layinge on off handes off the gouernours onely: so vnder the Gospell the elders / and people consentinge in the election off one / doo testifie it by layinge on off handes off the Elders onely.
Where you would prove it abrogated / because it it is joined ⟨p. CCXXII⟩with other things, which are abrogated: I have showed how that 1is an engine / to wrest out off the hands off the church / all the moral laws that ever were written. Where you say / there could be no election off the people in the levites, for that God had chosen them: You might have understanded / that although the tribe of Levi only were used to the ministry / yet all that tribe / was not applied that ways: but as many as were thought enough to supply that office / and those also not at all adventure / but by choice according to their ability. I fear not Master W. the judgement off the greatest enemies I have / and friends you have / in this cause: but that their own consciences shall witness with me / off my faithful alleging off the scriptures, and off your either notable ignorance / or very evil conscience.