The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

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 ²albeit it were incident to his ministry: yet that was by extraordinary ⟨p. CCCXLIX⟩calling. The baptizing in Jordan / was for that he sought the commodity off water / as appeareth by other places / where ³he likewise baptized not as the D. pretendeth / for that his ministry called him more to that place / then unto an other.

In the next Tract. off the great conuenience off preaching before administration off the Sacramentes / 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 owne charges) there should haue bene almoste as title to answere / as in the other: if the D. had not vsed such open false accusations / as he may thereby seem to haue striuen for the mastrie thereoff / with the father off them. And first to let pas his correction off thorder off my reasoning / whereby he maketh him selff more then ridiculous / to all which haue a graine off knowledge that waies: to that he saith / that Iohn as minister preached in the wildernes, and baptised in Iordan, and therupon will conclude / that if preaaching before the Sacramentes now haue grownd in Iohnes example, preaching in the wildernes, and baptizing in riuers haue the same: I answer that the case is nothing like. For his preaching in the wildernes / was by speciall vocation / wherunto he was directed by an expresse propheceye. This instance therefore is vnfitly alledged / which