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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.
And albeit it hath appeared / and shall appear that the Answ. hath not won so much as a poor cottage: yet as though he had taken great Babylon / or Nineveh / he maketh his Triumphs: which if he had had any hold off him self / at least he might have differed / until he had answered the reasons to the contrary. For if (as he most untruly saith) he had all the writers calling Timothy bishop: yet if the scripture stand for us / it is reason that he with all his writers / should veil their bonnet. Now therefore although he say / I forget my promise, of proving Timothy an Evangelist: yet the reason I alleged / that the scripture so calleth 1him, will prove better memory in this point / then he can well afford. To this reason he answereth / first that the scripture doth not call him so, but only biddeth him do the work of an Evang. which in deed is more against him. For they are sometimes called by a title / 2which not doing the work belonging thereunto / can not be properly so called: but they which do the work which the title pretendeth / may always properly be called by it. And the usuallest arguments in scripture / to prove or improve a man to be such / as he beareth countenance off / are fetched from this place off effects.
And albeit yt hath appeared / and shall appeare that the Answ. hath not wun so much as a poore cottage: yet as though he had taken great Babylon / or Niniue / he maketh his Triumphes: which yf he had had any hould off him self / at least he might haue differred / vntill he had answered the reasons to the contrary. For yf (as he moste vntruly saith) he had all the writers calling Timothe bishop: yet yf the scripture stand for vs / yt ys reason that he with all his writers / should vaile their bonnet. Nowe therefore although he say / I forget my promis, of prouing Timothe an Euangelist: yet the reason I alledged / that the scripture so calleth 1him, will proue better memorie in this point / then he can well aford. To this reason he answereth / first that the scripture doth not call him so, but onely biddeth him doo the worcke of an Euang. which in deed is more against him. For they are sometimes called by a title / 2