The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

You wipe not away the filth off the times wherein Volusianus wrote / and him you purge not: who (by that he is so deep in his mass) appeareth to have been defiled with it. And where you say / it is not like that he would write any thing in that matter, which ⟨p. CCCCLXXVII⟩he had not certainly learned of worthy writers: I pray you what worthier writers could there be in this behalf / then Denis bishop off Corinth / and Euseb? I am sure he could not fetch further then thes. So that from whom soever he took it (if he received it of any): it is clear he received it off those / which being further off the Apostles times / can have no credit herein / further than they show forth the authors of their report. but to make room for the archbishop / we must believe those things as certain / which nether are now / nor yet were then extant when Eusebius wrote / which gathered his story off writers before his time: and not only testimonies which never were / but whereof the bare names are not to be found. Whereas the manner of writers is / when they allege any thing that the former times had not spoken off / as at the finding of some great treasure / to note the means how that fell into their hands.

Yow wipe not awaie the filthe off the times vvherin Volusianus wrote / and him yow purge not: vvho (by that he is so deepe in his masse) appeareth to haue bene defiled with it. And where yow say / yt is not like that he would write any thing in that matter, which ⟨p. CCCCLXXVII⟩he had not certeinly learned of worthy writers: I pray yow what worthyer writers coulde there be in this behalfe / then Denis bishop off Corinthe / and Euseb? I am sure he coulde not fetche further then thes. So that from whom soeuer he took yt (yf he receiued yt of any): yt is cleare he receiued yt off those / which being further off the Apostels times / can haue no credite herin / further thē they shew forthe the autors of their reporte. but to make reume for the archbishop / we must belieue those thinges as certeine / which nether are now / nor yet were thē extante whē Eusebius wrote / which gathered his storie off writers before his time: and not onely testimonies which neuer were / but wherof the bare names are not to be founde. Wheras the maner of writers is / when they alledge any thinge that the former times had not spoken off / as at the finding of some greate treasure / to note the meanes how that fell into their handes.