A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Your Thomas of Aquine, who without question is the best and most sober of all your School Doctors, hath in one Book given us 522 Articles of Religion, which you esteem miraculously stated; Quot Articuli, tot Miracula. All these have at least five Questions one with another stated and determined in explication of them; which amount unto 2610 Conclusions in matters of Religion. Now we are far from thinking that all these Determinations, or the like, belong unto the Unity of Faith, though much of the Religion amongst some of you, lies in not dissenting from them? The Questions that your Bellarmine hath determined and asserted the Positions in them as of faith, and necessary to be believed, are I think near 40 times as many as ⟨p. 129⟩the Articles of the ancient Creed of the Church; and such as it is most evident that, if they be of the nature and importance pretended, it is impossible that any considerable number of men should ever be able to discharge their duty in this business of holding the Unity of Faith. That a man believe in general that the holy Scripture is given by inspiration from God, and that all things proposed therein for him to believe, are therefore infallibly true, and to be as such believed, and that, in particular, he believe every Article or point of Truth, that he hath sufficient means for his instruction in, and conviction that it is so revealed, they judg to be necessary unto the holding of the Unity of Faith. And this also they know, that this sufficiency nf means unto every one that enjoys the benefit of the Scriptures, extends its self unto all those Articles of Truth, which are necessary for him to believe, so as that he may yield unto God the obedience that he requireth, receive the holy Spirit of promise, and be accepted with God. Herein doth that Unity of Faith which is amongst the Disciples of Christ in the world consist; and ever did, nor can do so in any thing else. Nor doth that variety of Apprehensions that in many things is found among the Disciples of Christ, and ever was, render this Unity, like that you plead for, various and incertain. For the Rule and formal Reason of it, namely Gods Revelation in the Scripture, is still one and the same, perfectly unalterable.

Your Thomas of Aquine, who without question is the best and most sober of all your School Doctors, hath in one Book given us 522 Articles of Religion, which you esteem mraculously stated; Quot Articuli, tot Miracula. All these have at least five Questions one with another stated and determined in explication of them; which amount unto 2610 Conclusions in matters of Religion. Now we are farre from thinking that all these Determinations, or the like, belong unto the Unity of Faith, though much of the Religion amongst some of you, lyes in not dissenting from them? The Questions that your Bellarmine hath determined and asserted the Positions in them as of faith, and necessary to be believed, are I think neer 40 times as many as