A18080:526
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.
Therefore if you have no better exceptions then these: I am not afraid / still to commit my reasons to the judgement / not only of the godly / which rest in authority of the word / but even off the wise / and reasonable man / which maketh his account of likelihoods.
Therfore if yow haue no better exceptiōs then these: I am not afraied / stil to cōmit my reasons to the iudgement / not onely of the godly / vvhich rest in authoritie of the word / but euen off the wise / ād reasonable man / which maketh his account of likelihoodes.
Thes high words / that he remembereth no learned writer new nor 1old, which denieth that there were few professors of the gospel in the Apostles times, in respect off those profess now: what have they beside ⟨p. CCXXXV⟩a crake? And in respect off the old writers / it is absurdly said. For how could they compare the number of the professors of our times, with those which were in the primitive churches / onles they should prophesy: seeing they were dead long before? And maketh it for you / if the new writers do not deny this? If it he no good reason from the scripture negatively, in those things which it professeth to speak off: is it good from other writers / and from one part off them / in things which they make no profession of▪ I looked therefore you should have brought some / which by affirming that you say: might if not make it true / yet at the lest seem true. I could off your challenge take occasion / to bring all the peregrination off Saint Paul / declared in the Act. Epistles / and especially in the 15. Rom. drawn to my hand / by which appeareth that he for his part only / had caused the Gospel to sound in more then half off the world. I could also fetch in Euseb. and Jerome / which testify what the other Apostles did 2for their part. I propounded that which I said without proof, because the things are manifestly known / and such as can not be denied: you affirm without all proof that in controversy / and whereupon your cause in your judgement dependeth / that no one part off the world, no one city, no one the least town, received the gospel wholly in the Apostles time.