A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1, Summary of errors by Doctor Whitgifies
To note onelyonly the errors / corruptiōs and ſhameful falſifyinges of the D. in ſuche ſort as he hath pretended in my book: were to make a new book. But becauſe there is much void paper / I wil gyue the reader an aſſay onelyonly / of thoſe conteined in the treatiſes which I hādle in this book. And thoſe ſhal be not off the capital matters betwene vsus: but off ſuch as are browght to vnderſet them / quoted according to his own book whereby yt ſhal appeare / that for the defence off this cauſe he troubleth heauen yt ſelf: and in earth ouerthroweth both eſtates / Ciuil / and Eccleſiaſticall.
THe vvhole lavv of god generally, is abrogated, pa. 121. li. 39.
The ſcripture ſpeaketh not one vvord off preaching or baptizing priuately or openly, page 89. line 6.
The ſcripture hath not commaunded, nether can yt be by neceſſary collection theroff gathered: vvhether vve ſhould receiue the communion clothed or naked, page 24. line 21.
The ſcripture hath appointed no diſcipline for the correcting off ſuche as ſhall contemn the hearing off the vvord and cō mon praier, page 88 line 47.
He matcheth the iudiciall lavves off god, gyuen vntounto the Ivves: vvith the Turckes lavves, page 149 line 32.
HE alovveth th… ſentence off Cyrill vvhichwhich condemneth the iuſtice off g… …iſhing thoſe by aeternall death vvhichwhich ſuffered corpor… …ath vnderunder the lavv page 149. line 48.
He matcheth the …ou…ſhing off ſaithe by conſideration off the creatures, vvith popiſhe imagety, page 571. line 2.
TO maintein the ſole election off the biſhop: he vvould hauehave the free elections off magiſtrates, in cities and Borovvgh Tovvnes taken avvay, page 171. line 49.
VVherby he vvill hauehave the forme of gouernement off the common vvealth framed vntounto the form off the church: vvheroff notvvithſtanding and that moſt vntrvvly he accuſeth me.
Likevviſe that vnderunder the goſpell there is no puniſhment off the body laid vponupon a tranſgreſſor: but that if he repent, ſo that he may ſeem vvorthy to hauehave the puniſhement vvithdravvn, he may finde forgiuenes, page 150. line 9.
No man vvhat crime ſoeuer he hath committed: is to be ſecluded from any lavvful vocation if he repēt. And by vocation: he meaneth publike office, page 146. line 23.
The externall gouernement off the church, vnderunder a Chriſtian magiſtrate: muſt be according to the kinde and form off gouernement, vſed in the common vvealth, pa. 389. li. 5. vvhichwhich (beſide the abſurditie) vtterly ouerthrovveth the liberty: vvhichwhich him ſelf pretendeth that the church hath, in diſpoſing off yt.
In the Apoſtels times, yt vvas permitted to all men: to preache, the vvord off God, page 191. li. 16.
Beſide Paſtors there are novv vvith vsus, Apoſtles Prophetes, and Euangeliſtes, page 229. line 6.
ALthovvgh there vvere a ſufficient nomber off able men to ſupply the places of the reading miniſters: yet the reading miniſters, ovvght to kepe their places ſtill page 485. lin. 5.
The vvord, ys as effectual red: as preached Page 569. lin. 23. To thoſe, vvhichwhich vnderſtand the ſcriptures: they are as vvhot and lightſom red, as preached, page 573. li. 34.
publike reading in the church, is as ſolem… matter: as Catechiſing the youth, page 425. lin. 43.
Yt may be, that ſome men be more aedified … ſimple reading off the ſcriptures▪ then by ſermons pa…. …80. li. 30.
To that I ſay, that nether homilies, nor Apocrypha are to be compared ether in goodnes vvithin them ſelues, or fruict to the hearers, vvith the ſcripture or reading thereof: he anſvvereth that that maketh againſt ſermons, as vvel as againſt homilies: and rather againſt ſermons, then againſt them, Page 717 li. 52. VVherby he affirmeth, that homilies are both better in them ſelues, and more fruiteful to the hearers: then ſermons.
End of the text · Thomas Cartwright, A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 (1575)