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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.
Where as he saith the simple and plain meaning of the text to be / that god in his election to eternal life / hath neither respect to learning / nobility / riches or any such thing: he do the manifestly corrupt the sentence off the Apostle / and the whole process off his disputation. for the apostle going about to maintain / the naked simplicity off the preaching off the word of god / against those that would have the word preached in the swelling words off mans eloquence: amongest other reasons useth this / that the lord useth for the most part other means to do his / then the wisdom off men would choose to do their matters. And therefore that the simple kind ⟨p. XI⟩off preaching / without all pomp and bravery off speech / might seem less strange: he showeth the same to come to pass in the calling off god / in which he taketh the most unlikely in mans judgement / and passeth by those that the wisdom of man would sonest take. And albeit it be to an other end / this sentence off S. Paul is the same in effect with that off S. James: that god chooseth the poor in the world rich in faith. Now although it be true / that god hath not respect 1to riches / or poverty / nobility / or base degree in his eternal election: yet who is there so void off all judgement / that will say that the true and simple meaning off S. James in this place is / that god in his eternal election hath no regard to riches / or poverty? When he therefore reproveth them to whom he wrote for that they rejected the poor which the Lord for the most part chooseth / and made much off the rich / which he for the most part rejecteth.
Where as he saithe the simple and plaine meaning of the texte to be / that god in his electiō to eternall life / hathe neither respecte to learning / nobilitie / riches or any suche thing: he do the manifestly corrupte the sentence off the Apostle / and the whole proces off his diputation. for the apostle going abowt to mainteine / the naked simplicitie off the preaching off the word of god / against those that would haue the word preached in the swelling wordes off mans eloquence: amongest other reasons vseth this / that the lord vseth for the most part other meanes to doo his / then the wisdome off men would chuse to doo their matters. And therfore that the simple kind ⟨p. XI⟩