A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Secundo Imperii Claudii anno Romam venit, à quo tempore usque ad illius obitum, any plus minus viginti quinque intersunt, quibus etsi eum Romae sedisse Veteres scribunt, non tamen praeterea sequitur, ipsum semper in urbe commoratum esse. Nam, quarto anno ejus ad urbem adventus, Hierusolymam reversus est, & ibi Concilio Apostolorum interfuit; inde Antiochiam profectus septem ibidem annis usque ad Neronis Imperium permansit, cujus initio Romam reversus Romanam dilabentem reparavit Ecclesiam. Peregrination inde per universam fere Europam suscepta, Romam rediens novissimo Neronis Imperii anno, martyrium Crucis passus est.

Secundo Imperii Claudii anno Romam venit, à quo tempore usque ad illius obitum, anni plus minus viginti quinque intersunt, quibus etsi eum Romae sedisse Veteres scribunt, non tamen praeterea sequitur, ipsum semper in urbe commoratum esse. Nam, quarto anno ejus ad urbem adventus, Hierusolymam reversus est, & ibi Concilio Apostolorum interfuit; inde Antiochiam profectus septem ibidem annis usque ad Neronis Imperium permansit, cujus initio Romam reversus Romanam dilabentem reparavit Ecclesiam. Peregrinatione inde per universam fere Europam suscepta, Romam rediens novissimo Neronis Imperii anno, martyrium Crucis passus est.

For the first nine years after the death of Christ, unto the beginning of the second year of Claudius, it is most evident from the Acts, and Epistle to the Galatians, that Peter went not out of Palestine. If therefore, as all agree, he came at that time to Rome, it is certain that he bad not abode at Antioch seven years before his coming thither; (which yet all the Witnesses agree in) but this his Antiochian Chair fell out at some other time. Wherefore I thus order the whole matter from the Testimony of most Ancient Authors, (not that any one before him ever wrote any such thing, but this he supposeth may be said to reconcile their Contradictions); In the second year of Claudius He came to Rome. From thence unto his death were 25 years ⟨p. 172⟩more or less: which space of time although the Ancients write that he sate at Rome, yet it doth not follow thence, that he always abode in the City; for in the 4th year after his coming, he returned unto Jerusalem to be present at the Council of the Apostles; thence going unto Antioch, he continued there seven years, unto the reign of Nero. In the beginning of his reign, he returned unto Rome, to repair the decaying Church there; from thence passing almost through all Europe, he returned again to Rome in the last year of Nero, and under went Martyrdom by the Cross. You may easily discern the uncertainty at least of that Story, which this learned man, can give no countenance unto, but by multiplying improbable imaginations to shelter one another. For, 1. Who ever said that Peter came from Rome to come up to the Council at Jerusalem; when it is most manifest from the Story of the Acts that he had never before departed out of Judea; and this Council being granted to have been in the 6th year of Claudius, as here it is by Onuphrius, quite overthrows the Tradition of his going to Rome in his second. 2. The abode of 25 years at Rome, as thus disposed, is no abode indeed; for he continued almost twice as long at Antioch as he did at Rome. 3. Here is no time at all allowed unto him for preaching the Gospel in Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, which certainly are not Provinces of Europe, in which places Eusebius, Hist. Lib. 3. cap. 1. Origen, and all the Ancients agree that he did attend unto his Apostleship towards the Jews; and his Epistles make it evident. 4.