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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The 5. Tract. and 6. un the O.The 5. Tract. and 6. vn the O.
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.
To maintain his ridiculous demand (was not reading off 1Deut. preaching) he should have showed / that the reading off it is rather preaching / then reading off Exodus: which he doth not. Howbeit he concludeth / that the reading thereof was preaching / because the Lord commanded that the priests should read it, that the people might learn to fear God: which is as ridiculous. For so painting / and graving off the scriptures is preaching / and painters and gravers (which sometimes know never a letter off the book) shall be come preachers. Considering that the Lord commanded / 2that the law should be graven in the entrance of their land / and written upon their city gates / and houses: to this end that the people might learn to fear God / &c. After he asketh / why Josia should cause the law to be red, if reading had not been off at great force to persuade as preaching: which frenzy belonging to another question / is answered before. Where he concludeth / that for that reading 3is as effectual as preaching, therefore it is preaching: beside the falsehood off the antecedent / the conclusion is too bad. for if the rain be as effectual to cause the fruits grow / as the sun / and meat as effectual to preserve the life / as drink: it followeth not therefore that the rain is the sun / or meat drink.
To mainteine his ridiculous demaunde (was not reading off 1Deut. preaching) he should haue shewed / that the reading off yt is rather preaching / then reading off Exodus: which he doth not. Howbeit he concludeth / that the reading theroff was preaching / becawse the Lord commaunded that the priestes should reade yt, that the people might learne to feare God: which is as ridiculous. For so peinting / and grauing off the scriptures is preaching / and peinters and grauers (which sometimes knowe neuer a lettre off the booke) shall be come preachers. Considering that the Lord cōmaunded / 2that the lawe should be grauen in the entrance of their land / and writtē vpō their cytie gates / and howses: to this end that the people might learne to feare God / &c. After he asketh / why Iosia should cawse the lawe to be redd, if reading had not bene off at great force to perswade as preaching: which phrensie belonging to another question / is answered before. Where he concludeth / that for that reading