The fifth Supposition in your Fiat, observed in the Animadversions, is, That the first Reformers were most of them contemptible Persons, their Means indirect, and their Ends sinister: To which you reply, Where is it Sir, where is it, that I meddle with any mens persons, or say they are contemptible? what and how many are those Persons, and where did they live? But this you add of your own is in a vast universal notion, to the end you may bring in the Apostles and Prophets, and some Kings into the list of Persons by mesur named contemptible; and liken my speech who never spake any such thing, to the Sarcasms of Celsus, Lucian, Porphyry, Julian, and other Pagans. So you begin; but ne savi, magne Sacerdos! Have a little patience and I will direct you to the places where you display in many words that which in a few I represented. They are in your Fiat, Chap. 4. §. 18. 2. edit. from pag. 239, unto §. 20. p. 251. Had you lost your Fiat, that you make such an outcry after that which in a moment he could have supplied you withal? Calvin, and a Tailors Widow, Luther and Catherine Bore, pleased with a naked Unicorn, swarms of Reformers as thick as Grasshoppers, fallen Priests and Votaries, ambitious heads, emulating one another, if not the worst, ⟨p. 94⟩yet none of the best that ever were, so eagerly quarrelling among themselves, that a sober man would not have patience to hear their Sermons, or read their Books; with much more to the same purpose you will find in the places, which I have now directed you unto. But I see you love to say what you please, but not to hear of it again. But he that can in no more words more truly express the full and genuine sense of your eighteenth and nineteenth Chapter than I have done, in the Assertion you so cry out against, shall have my thanks for his pains; Only I must mind you that you have perverted it, in placing the last words, as if they referred unto the Reformers you talk of, that they did their work for sinister Ends, when I only said, that their Doctrine according to their Insinuations was received for sinister Ends, wherein I comprised your foul reflections upon King Henry the Eighth and Queen Elizabeth his Daughter, not placing them as you now feign among the number of them, whom I affirmed to be reported by you as a company of Contemptible Persons.
The fifth Supposition in your Fiat, observed in the Animadversions, is, That the first Reformers were most of them contemptible Persons, their Means indirect, and their Ends sinister: To which you reply, Where is it St, where is it, that I meddle with any mens persons, or say they are contemptible? what and how many are those Persons, and where did they live? But this you adde of your own is in a vast universall notion, to the end you may bring in the Apostles and Prophets, and some Kings into the list of Persons by mesur named contemptible; and liken my speech who never spake any such thing, to the Sarcasms of Celsus, Lucian, Porphyry, Julian, and other Pagans. So you begin; but ne savi, magne Sacerdos! Have a little patience and I will direct you to the places where you display in many words that which in a few I represented. They are in your Fiat, Chap. 4. §. 18. 2. edit. from pag. 239, unto §. 20. p. 251. Had you lost your Fiat, that you make such an outcry after that which in a moment he could have supplyed you withall? Calvin, and a Taylors Widdow, Luther and Catherine Bore, pleased with a naked Vnicorn, swarms of Reformers as thick as Grashoppers, fallen Priests and Votaries, ambitious heads, emulating one another, if not the worst, ⟨p. 94⟩yet none of the best that ever were, so eagerly quarrelling among themselves, that a sober man would not have patience to hear their Sermons, or read their Books; with much more to the same purpose you will find in the places, which I have now directed you unto. But I see you love to say what you please, but not to hear of it again. But he that can in no more words more truely express the full and genuine sense of your eighteenth and nineteenth Chapter than I have done, in the Assertion you so cry out against, shall have my thanks for his pains; Only I must mind you that you have perverted it, in placing the last words, as if they referred unto the Reformers you talk of, that they did their work for sinister Ends, when I only said, that their Doctrine according to their Insinuations was received for sinister Ends, wherein I comprized your foul reflections upon King Henry the Eighth and Queen Elizabeth his Daughter, not placing them as you now faign among the number of them, whom I affirmed to be reported by you as a company of Contemptible Persons.
