A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Yea the Assurance which we may have hereby is preferred by Peter, before that which any may have by an immediate voice from Heaven, 2 Pet. 1. 19. And is it not an unreasonable thing, now for you to come and tell us, that the Scripture is not sufficient to give us an unquestionable settlement in Religion? Whether it be meet to hearken unto God or men, judge you. For our parts, we seek not for the foundation of our settlement, in long uncertain discourses, dubious conclusions and inferences, fallible conjectures, sophistical reasonings, such as you would call us unto; but in the express direction and command of God. Him we can follow, and trust unto without the least fear of miscarriage; Whither you would lead us we know not, and are not willing to make desperate experiments in things of so high concernment. But since you have been pleased to overlook what hath been discoursed unto this purpose in the Animadversions, and with your usual confidence to affirm, that I no where at all speak one word to the Case that you proposed, I shall for your further satisfaction give you a little enlargement of my thoughts, as to the Principles on which Protestants and Romanists proceed in these matters, and compare them together, that it may be seen whether ⟨p. 109⟩of us build on the most stable and adequate foundation as to the superstruction aimed at, by us both.

Yea the Assurance which we may have hereby is preferred by Peter, before that which any may have by an immediate voyce from Heaven, 2 Pet. 1. 19. And is it not an unreasonable thing, now for you to come and tell us, that the Scripture is not sufficient to give us an unquestionable settlement in Religion? Whether it be meet to hearken unto God or men, judge you. For our parts, wee seek not for the foundation of our settlement, in long uncertain discourses, doubious conclusions and inferences, fallible conjectures, sophisticall reasonings, such as you would call us unto; but in the express direction and command of God. Him we can follow, and trust unto without the least fear of miscarriage; Whither you would lead us wee know not, and are not willing to make desperate experiments in things of so high concernment. But since you have been pleased to overlook what hath been discoursed unto this purpose in the Animadversions, and with your usuall confidence to affirm, that I no where at all speak one word to the Case that you proposed, I shall for your further satisfaction give you a little enlargement of my thoughts, as to the Principles on which Protestants and Romanists proceed in these matters, and compare them together, that it may be seen whether