A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

nam si esset, tenerem eum, & rogaremeum, & per Teobsecrarem ut mihi ist a pa•derct, & praberem aures corporis mei, sonis erumpentibus ex ere ejus. At si Hebraea voce loqueretur, frustra pulsaret sensum meum, nec inde mentem meam tangeret: si autem Latinè, scirem quid diceret; sed, Unde scirem an verum dicoret? quod si & hoc scirem, num & ab ill• scirem? Intus utique mihi, intus in domicilio cogitationis, nec Hebraea, nec Graeca, nec Latina, nec barbara verityas sine oris & linguae organis, sine strepitu syllabarum diceret, verum ⟨p. 145⟩digit; & ego statim ••tus confidenter illi homini tuo dicerem, Verumolits. Cum ergo illum interrogare non possim, Te, quo […] vera dixit, Veritas, rogo Te Deus meus, rogo, partepeccatis meis, & qui illi servo tuo dedisti haec dicere, […] & mihi haEc intelligere. I would bear and understand, O Lord, how thou hast made the Heavens and the earth: Moses wrote this, he wrote it and is gene, and he is gone to Thee. For now he is not present with me; if he were, I would lay hold on him, and ask him and beseech him for thy sake, that he would unfold these things unto me, and I would cause the ears of my body to attend unto the words of his mouth. But if he should speak in the Hebrew tongue, he would only in vain strike upon my outward sense, and my mind within would not be affected with it. If he speak in Latin, I should know what he said; but whence should I know that he spake the Truth? should I know this also from him? The Truth, that is neither Hebrew, Greek, Latin, nor expressed in any Barbarous Language, would say unto me inwardly in the dwelling place of my thoughts, without the organs of mouth or tongue, or noise of syllables, He speaks the Truth; and I with confidence should say unto him thy servam, Thou speakest the Truth. Seeing therefore I cannot enquire of him, I beseech Thee that art Truth, with whom he being filled spake the Truth, I beseech thee O my God, pardon my sins, and thou who gavest unto him by servant to speak these things, grant unto me to understand Thus this holy man ascribes his assent into the one unquestionable Principle of the Scripture, as to the effecting of it in himself, to the work if Gods Spirit in his heart. As Basil also doth on Psal. 11. [Greek or Hebrew]: Faith which ⟨p. 146⟩