The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

but what is that against so manifest both light of the text / and consent off all other learned men / which all with one consent refuse the old translation as that which doth open violence unto the truth: so that I persuade my self that even the very papists / as the monk Isiodorus Clarius / hath in this point reformed the old translator. And it is a mere fable / that the Levites could be sanctified easier / or in shorter time then the priests: neither is their any such thing in all the law of Moses. For as touching the corporal pollutions / that happened unto men by touching of things which the law counted unclean and common or off what other means soever men were made unmeet / to come either into the congregation of God / or other society of men: the purgation and cleansing according to the kind off pollution / was the same and in the same time / not only unto the priests and Levites but also unto the common people / and this answer is manifestly overthrown by the words off the text. for in that there were some priests sanctified as well as the Levites: it proveth manifestly that the cause off stay was not in the time that the ceremony off sanctifying required / for then that should have also stayed the rest off the priests.

but what is that against so manifest both light of the texte / and consent off all other learned men / which all with one cōsent refuse the oulde trāslatiō as that which dooth opē violence vnto the trewth: so that I perswade my self that euen the verie papistes / as the monke Isiodorus Clarius / hath in this point reformed the oulde trāslator. And it is a mere fable / that the Leuites could be sanctified easlier / or in shorter time then the priestes: neither is their any suche thinge in all the law of Moses. For as touching the corporall pollutions / that happened vnto men by touchinge of thinges which the law counted vncleane and common or off what other meanes soeuer men were made vnmeete / to come either into the congregation of God / or other societie of men: the purgation and clensinge accordinge to the kind off pollution / was the same and in the same time / not onelie vnto the priestes and Leuites but also vnto the common people / and this answere is manifestlie ouerthrowen by the wordes off the text. for in that there were some priestes sanctified as well as the Leuites: it proueth manifestly that the cause off staie was not in the time that the ceremonie off sanctifing required / for then that should haue also staied the rest off the priestes.