The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

Hitherto pertaineth which the D. entitleth / the most effectual ¹kind off preaching: where he would if he durst / expound diligent preaching / preaching once a month: to which end he storeth up a fresh / the difference between spiritual food / and corporal / before answered. But because he dare not take upon him this defence / and the rest of the treatise hath nothing but a childish excuse / off his reproaches against the Ministers of London, an impudent denial off his Lewdness towards the women, an intolerable brag off his benefits / and off his preaching often, out courses against me / all beside the cause: I will leave them in the readers judgement.

Hetherto perteineth which the D. intitleth / the moste effectuall ¹kinde off preaching: where he would if he durst / expound diligent preaching / preaching once a moneth: to vvhich end he stowreth vp a freshe / the difference betwene spirituall food / and corporall / before answered. But because he dare not take vpon him this defense / and the rest of the treatise hath nothing but a childishe excuse / off his reproches against the Ministers of London, an impudent deniall off his Lewdenes towardes the weomen, an intollerable bragg off his benefites / and off his preaching often, owt courses against me / all beside the cawse: I will leaue them in the readers iudgement.

1. 1Theleventh Tract. Pag. 554. &c.Theleuenth Tract. Pag. 554. &c.

In the next Tract. off the great convenience off preaching before administration off the Sacraments / falling also into this ¹treatise (as that which pulleth at the least one of those feathers / wherewith non residentes so willingly take their flight from their own charges) there should have been almost as title to answer / as in the other: if the D. had not used such open false accusations / as he may thereby seem to have striven for the mastery thereof / with the father off them. And first to let pas his correction off the order off my reasoning / whereby he maketh him self more then ridiculous / to all which have a grain off knowledge that ways: to that he saith / that John as minister preached in the wilderness, and baptised in Jordan, and thereupon will conclude / that if preaching before the Sacraments now have ground in Johns example, preaching in the wilderness, and baptizing in rivers have the same: I answer that the case is nothing like. For his preaching in the wilderness / was by special vocation / whereunto he was directed by an express prophecy. This instance therefore is unfitly alleged / which