A18080:914
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 the second place he saith / he used them not •• sure grounded, but as probable testimonies off antiquity of the name. Wherein his hand being with the Papists / is against not only the manifest truth / but all those godly writers / which reject those epistles as upstarts / and lately forged under a hedge. For against them all the D. saith / that it is very probable that they have that antiquity which they pretend. Thirdly / he compareth them with the Canons attributed unto the Apostles: whereof albeit diverse ••e falsely fathered: yet those creeping in at sundry times / were ⟨p. CCCCLXVII⟩•••w••standing some 100. years / before this dross came ••to the church. Whereupon also the corruptions in them / although they •a•ter the walls off the city off God: yet they raze not the foundations off it / as this Clement doth: nether are they alleged off me (as he pretendeth) but with attaint off the baseness off their birth. And for my alleging off Higinus: I refer me to the judgement off the reader / what a cognisance I have given him there / 1to be known by.
In the second place he saith / he vsed them not •• sure grownde•, but as probable testimonies off antiquitie of the name. Wherin his hand being with the Papistes / is against not onely the manifest truth / but all those godly writers / which reiect those epistles as vpstartes / and lately forged vnder a hedge. For against them all the D. saith / that it is very probable that they haue that antiquitie which they pretend. Thirdly / he compareth them vvith the Canons attributed vnto the Apostles: wheroff albeit diuerse ••e falsely fathered: yet those creeping in at sundrie times / were ⟨p. CCCCLXVII⟩