A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

Mr. Johnson's Reply I take not to be worthy¹ of an Answer with any man that can make use of an answer; when his shift is so gross as to instance in the Bishops of Thracia as out of the Empire, and such as they, which every novice in history and Geography can Confute. Unless I was Confuted in▪ London at a public Play, where (that you may see who influenceth them) a Tutor in Geography was (as I am credibly informed) brought in telling his Pupil, that Prester John's Country of Abyssinia was of the same Latitude with a place in Worcester-shire called Kidderminster.]

Mr. Iohnson's Reply I take not to be worthy¹ of an Answer with any man that can make use of an answer; when his shift is so gross as to instance in the Bishops of Thracia as out of the Empire, and such as they, which every novice in history and Geographie can Confute. Unless I was Confuted in▪ London at a publick Play, where (that you may see who influenceth them) a Tutor in Geographie was (as I am credibly informed) brought in telling his Pupill, that Prester Iohn's Countrey of Abassia was of the same Latitude with a place in Worcester-shire called Kederminster.]

1. 1Of Mr. Johnson's Reply to my Book.Of Mr. Iohnson's Reply to my Book.

Now seeing reason forbiddeth me to interpret you as speaking of the Church of Rome as a Sect or Party, when I spake of it, as the Universality of Christians headed by the Pope (your Context showing that it is my words that you gainsay,) therefore I must number these three also with the rest of your untruths.

Now seeing reason forbiddeth me to interpret you as speaking of the Church of Rome as a Sect or Party, when I spake of it, as the Universality of Christians headed by the Pope (your Context shewing that it is my words that you gainsay,) therefore I must number these three also with the rest of your untruths.