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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 because the Answerer holdeth out the Slidings of the most excellent servants of god / to hide this unfaithful dealing with the church in this resistance against the truth: he must understand that their want in these things / is so far from making his fault less / that it shall weigh so much more to his condemnation / by how much the lord hath offered the knowledge off those things unto him which (he disdainfully rejecting) would without all controversy have been joyfully embraced off those blessed Martyrs. And if he had rather here this sentence off an other then off me: it is that which Cyprian in a certain Epistle writeth / where all 1this is confirmed when he saith: That if any off our predecessors either by ignorance, or by simplicity ⟨p. VIII⟩did not hold that which the Lord did by his commandment and example teach: that the Lord would forgive that simplicity: But unto us (saith he) which are admonished & instructed, there is no such pardon left.
And because the Answerer holdeth oute the Slidinges of the moste excellent seruantes of god / to hide this vnfaithful dealing withe the church in this resistance against the trewth: he must vnderstand that their want in these thinges / is so farre from making his fault lesse / that it shall weighe so much more to his condemnation / by how much the lord hathe offred the knowledge off those thinges vnto him which (he disdainefullie reiectinge) would withowt all controuersie haue bene ioyfullie embraced off those blessed Martyrs. And iff he had rather here this sentence off an other then off me: it is that which Cyprian in a certeine Epistle writeth / wher all 1this is confirmed when he saith: That yff any off our predecessors either by ignorance, or by simplicitie ⟨p. VIII⟩did not hold that vvhich the Lorde did by his commaundement and example teache: that the Lord vvould forgiue that simplicitie: But vnto vs (saith he) vvhich are admonished & instructed, there is no suche pardon lefte.
- 1Cyp. lib. 2. Epist. 3.