A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

postremo plures adver sum paucos b•nè consulentes, insanis consiliis & pertinacibus studiis certabant. Inter haec plebs Dei, & optimus quisque, probro atque ludibrio habebatur: With which words he shuts up his Ecclesiastical story. Amongst ours, a lasting war of discord was kindled, which, after it hath now for fifteen years been carried on with shameful contentions, can by no means be allayed. And now especially when all things appear to be troubled and perverted by the discord of the Bishops, and that all things are depraved by them through hatred, favour, fear, inconstancy, envy, faction, covetousness, pride, sleepiness and sloth; the most with mad counsels and pertinacious endeavours opposing themselves to the sew that are better advised. Amongst all these things, the people of God and every honest man, is become a reproach and scorn. Thus that Historian complaining of the consequents of this proceeding. But good men lest not the matter so: Martinus Turonensis presently refuseth all communion with them who had any hand in the death or banishment of the persons mentioned. So doth Ambrose declare himself to have done, Epist. 27. as did the rest of the sober godly. Bishops of those days. At length both Ithacius and Idacius, the promoters of this work, were solemnly excommunicated, though one of them had before for very shame foregone his Bishopric. See Prosp. Chron. 389. and I sidore de Viris Illustribus. So that here also the judgment and practice of your Church which she is fallen into, is publicly eondemned and written against, 1300 years ago. Should I insist on all the Testimonies that of this kind might be produced, Antè diem clauso componet vesper olympo than I could make an end of them. I have added this ⟨p. 75⟩Instance to the former, as knowing them to be the two great pillars on which the tottering fabric of your Church is raised; and which if they were removed, the whole of it would quickly fall to the ground: and you see how long ago, they were both publicly condemned.

postremo plures adver sum paucos b•nè consulentes, insanis consiliis & pertinacibus studiis certabant. Inter haec plebs Dei, & optimus quisque, probro atque ludibrio habebatur: With which words he shuts up his Ecclesiasticall story. Amongst ours, a lasting war of discord was kindled, which, after it hath now for fifteen years been carried on with shamefull contentions, can by no means be allayed. And now especially when all things appear to be troubled and perverted by the discord of the Bishops, and that all things are depraved by them through hatred, favour, fear, inconstancy, envy, faction, covetousuess, pride, sleepiness and sloth; the most with mad counsels and pertinacious endeavours opposing themselves to the sew that are better advised. Amongst all these things, the people of God and every honest man, is become a reproach and scorn. Thus that Historian complaining of the consequents of this proceeding. But good men lest not the matter so: Martinus Turonensis presently refuseth all communion with them who had any hand in the death or banishment of the persons mentioned. So doth Ambrose declare himself to have done, Epist. 27. as did the rest of the sober godly. Bishops of those dayes. At length both Ithacius and Idacius, the promoters of this work, were solemnly excommunicated, though one of them had before for very shame foregone his Bishoprick. See Prosp. Chron. 389. and I sidore de Viris Illustribus. So that here also the judgment and practice of your Church which she is fallen into, is publickly eondemned and written against, 1300 years ago. Should I insist on all the Testimonies that of this kind might be produced, Antè diem clauso componet vesper olympo than I could make an end of them. I have added this