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

Answ. 1. This is his eleventh untruth. I¹ only named sense and reason objectively, not subjectively. It is not because the Answer which I give the Papists (and which Protestants commonly give) is not full and plain, or wanteth sense or reason, but because the Papists understand it not. He that hath sense and reason may be hindered from using it aright, by interest, partiality, and wilful negligences which it is no new thing for Protestants to think that Papists are too oft guilty of. But how proud am I then, intolerably proud that in several books have maintained that all Papists that hold Transubstantiation, do make it an Article of Faith, and necessary to Salvation, flatly to contradict all the senses of all the sound men in the World, that shall judge whether bread be bread, and wine be wine? How much more insolent a Charge is this? But, brother, Popish absurdities have need of a better defence, than to call the adversary insolent and proud.

Answ. 1. This is his eleventh untruth. I¹ only named sense and reason objectively, not subjectively. It is not because the Answer which I give the Papists (and which Protestants commonly give) is not full and plain, or wanteth sense or reason, but because the Papists understand it not. He that hath sense and reason may be hindred from using it aright, by interest, partialitie, and wilful negligences which it is no new thing for Protestants to think that Papists are too oft guilty of. But how proud am I then, intolerably proud that in several books have maintained that all Papists that hold Transubstantiation, do make it an Article of Faith, and necessarie to Salvation, flatly to contradict all the senses of all the sound men in the World, that shall judge whether bread be bread, and wine be wine? How much more insolent a Charge is this? But, brother, Popish absurdities have need of a better defence, than to call the adversarie insolent and proud.

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