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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.
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.
In calling it a servile tie, to have the whole government at the prescript off Gods word: he forgetteth that the greatest liberty / and freedom off Christians is / to serve the Lord according to his revealed will / and in all things to hang upon his mouth. But that he addeth (it is to be tied unto the letter, as in the law) first is Papistical / and Anabaptisticall: proceeding from a gross oversight / and want of understanding off the Apostles meaning / when he speaketh of the letter of the law. For whereas the Apostle setteth against the letter of the law / that is to say / the bare commandment ⟨p. CCCCXLIII⟩1do this, &c. the working off the spirit given by promise / whereby the law in part is obtained off us / and made healthful which otherwise bringeth death: the Answ. with the Papists / and Anabaptists / opposeth the letter unto that not written / nor commanded in scripture. When in that sense which he taketh letter (if there were any such) we are as strictly / and precisely bound unto the letter / as ever were the Jews.
In calling yt a seruile tie, to haue the whole gouernement at the prescript off Gods word: he forgetteth that the greatest libertie / and freedom off Christians is / to serue the Lord according to his reuealed will / and in all thinges to hang vppon his mouth. But that he addeth (yt ys to be tied vnto the lettre, as in the law) fyrst is Papisticall / and Anabaptisticall: proceeding from a grosse ouersight / and want of vnderstanding off the Apostles meaning / whē he speaketh of the lettre of the law. For wheras the Apostle setteth agaynst the lettre of the law / that is to say / the bare cōmaūdemēt ⟨p. CCCCXLIII⟩1doo this, &c. the worcking off the spirit gyuen by promesse / wherby the law in part is obteined off vs / and made healthfull which otherwise bringeth death: the Answ. with the Papistes / and Anabaptistes / opposeth the lettre vnto that not writtē / nor commaunded in scripture. When in that sense which he taketh lettre (if there were any such) we are as streightly / and precisely bound vnto the lettre / as euer were the Iewes.
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