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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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IT is not enough for you to corrupt the holy scripture sentence by sentence / but you must also overthrow at once the meaning of three whole chapters together. seemeth it a small thing in your eyes to confound things diverse / but you must mingle those which are clean contrary. For S. Paul doth not in the eight / ninth / and tenth chapters speak against those which strive about outward things / but quite contrary disputeth against those which maintained the free use off all outward things without exception: not against the spiced conscience off some weak brethren / that made scruple off things where was none / but against the senseless conscience of those / which under pretence off liberty off outward things / ⟨p. XVI⟩gave occasion of dangerous falls unto the weaker brethren / and which considering only what was in the own nature lawful / had no regard to the circumstances off place and persons / whereupon he showeth things otherwise in them selves lawful / to be through circumstances as touching the use unlawful. And especially in the tenth chapter he confuteth the very self same reason / which the A. towieth so roundly with in this place: which was / that for so much as the eating at the Idols feast / was but an outward thing / and went no farther then to the belly: therefore it was indifferent to be used or left at a mans discretion. So the place (then the which their is none stronger in the whole body off the Scripture / to bind and keep in the lavish use off Christian liberty) that the A challengeth for the enlarging of it beyond the bounds that God hath set in his word.
IT is not enowghe for yow to corrupt the holie scripture sentence by sentēce / but yow must also ouerthrow at once the meaninge of thre whole chapters togither. semeth it a smale thinge in your eies to cōfound thinges diuerse / but yow must mingle those which are cleane contrarie. For S. Paule dothe not in the eight / ninthe / and tenth chapters speake against those which strine aboute owtward thinges / but quite contrarie disputeth against those which meinteined the free vse off all owtward thinges withowt exception: not against the spiced conscience off some weake brethren / that made scruple off thinges wher was none / but against the senseles cōscience of those / which vnder pretence off libertie off owtward thinges /