A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

You may, from what hath been spoken, perceive how upon your own Principles you are utterly disenabled to exercise any true moderation towards Dissenters from you: And that which you do so exercise, we are beholding for it, as Cicero said of the Honesty of some of the Epicureans, to the Goodness of their Nature which the illness of their Opinions cannot ⟨p. 205⟩corrupt. Neither are you any way enabled by them to reduce men unto the Unity of Faith; so that, you are not more happy in your proposing of Good Ends unto your self, than you are unhappy in choosing mediums for the effecting of them. It may be, for your own skill, you are able like Archimedes to remove the earthly-Bull of our Contentions; but you are like him again, that you have no where to stand whilst you go about your work. However we thank you for your Good intentions; In magnis voluisse, is no small commendation. Protestants on the other side, you see, are furnished with firm stable Principles and Rules in the pursuit both of Moderation and Unity: And there are some things in themselves very practicable, and naturally deducible from the Principles of Protestants, wherein the complete exercise of Moderation may be obtained, and a better progress made towards Unity than is likely to be by a rigid contending to impose different Principles on one another; or by impetuous clamours of lo here and lo there, which at present most men are taken up withal: Some few of them I shall name unto you, as a pacific Coronis to the preceding •ristical Discourse; and —Si quid novisti rectius ist is Candidus imperti; si non, his ntere mecum. And they are these:

YOu may, from what hath been spoken, perceive how upon your own Principles you are utterly disenabled to exercise any true moderation towards Dissenters from you: And that which you do so exercise, we are beholding for it, as Cicero said of the Honesty of some of the Epicureans, to the Goodness of their Nature which the illness of their Opinions cannot ⟨p. 205⟩corrupt. Neither are you any way enabled by them to reduce men unto the Vnity of Faith; so that, you are not more happy in your proposing of Good Ends unto your self, than you are unhappy in chusing mediums for the effecting of them. It may be, for your own skill, you are able like Archimedes to remove the earthly-Bull of our Contentions; but you are like him again, that you have no where to stand whilest you go about your work. However we thank you for your Good intentions; In magnis voluisse, is no small commendation. Protestants on the other side, you see, are furnished with firm stable Principles and Rules in the pursuit both of Moderation and Unity: And there are some things in themselves very practicable, and naturally deducible from the Principles of Protestants, wherein the compleat exercise of Moderation may be obteined, and a better progress made towards Vnity than is likely to be by a rigid contending to impose different Principles on one another; or by impetuous clamours of lo here and lo there, which at present most men are taken up withall: Some few of them I shall name unto you, as a pacifick Coronis to the preceding ristical Discourse; and —Si quid novisti rectius ist is Candidus imperti; si non, his ntere mecum. And they are these: