A18080:980
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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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.
Where he saith / the writers, and Councils off 500. years, laboured to keep out Antichrist, and therefore things taken from them, can not justly be suspected: I marvel he understandeth not / first / that divers off that auncientie he speaketh off / and off the chiefest aof them / knew not what Antichrist was: but imagined fondly of him / as of one singular person / and that he should start up suddenly / &c. that Elijah should come to destroy him / that he should be borne of the Jews / that he should reign in Jerusalem / and divers other such fables. Secondly / that he remembereth not the ignorance off men to be such / that they often times make him a bridge / against whom they think to stop the passage. Thirdly / that being oftentimes overmastered off their affections / with hinderance ⟨p. DIX⟩off the truth / they give somewhat to them. Further / that errors / and heresies (as he saith) strengthening Antichrist: he could forget the manifold errors / which are to be found in the fathers of the time he prescribeth. Last off all / if he could be ignorant off thes things: yet examples off our days might have taught him / that even now there be which knowing Antichrist / and detesting him / cease not to maintain things / whereby that kingdom partly standeth.
Where he saith / the writers, and Councells off 500. yeares, laboured to kepe owt Antichrist, and therfore thinges taken from them, can not iustly be suspected: I merueill he vnderstandeth not / first / that diuers off that auncientie he speaketh off / and off the cheifest aof them / knew not what Antichrist was: but imagined fnodly of him / as of one singular person / and that he should starte vp soudenly / &c. that Elias should come to destroie him / that he should be borne of the Iewes / that he should raigne in Ierusalem / and diuers other suche fables. Secondly / that he remembreth not the ignorance off men to be such / that they often times make him a bridge / against whom they thinke to stop the passage. Thirdly / that being oftentimes ouermastred off their affections / with hinderance ⟨p. DIX⟩off the truthe / they giue somewhat to them. Further / that errors / and heresies (as he saithe) strengthening Antechriste: he coulde forgette the manifolde errors / which are to be founde in the fathers of the time he prescribeth. Laste off all / if he coulde be ignorante off thes thinges: yet examples off our daies might haue tawght him / that euen now there be which knowing Antichriste / and detesting him / cease not to mainteine thinges / wherby that kingdome partly standeth.