A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Pag. 31. You observe that I say, the Schoolmen were the hammerers and forgers of Popery: And add, Alas Sir, I see that anger spoils your memory; for in the twelfth and thirteenth Chapter you make Popery to be hammered and forged not a few hundreds of years before any Schoolmen were extant; And therefore tell ⟨p. 310⟩me that I hate the Schoolmen as the Frenchmen do Talbot, for having been frightened with them formerly; Sed risu inepto res ineptior nulla est. I confess the language of your Schoolmen is so corrupt and barbarous, many of the things they sweat about, so vain, curious, unprofitable, their way of handling things, and expressing the notions of their minds, so perplexed, dark, obscure, and oftentimes unintelligible, divers of their Assertions and suppositions so horrid and monstrous; the whole system of their pretended Divinity, so alien and foreign unto the mystery of the Gospel that I know no great reason that any man hath much to delight in them. These things have made them the sport and scorn of the learnedest men that ever lived in the Communion of your own Church. What one said of old of others, may be well applied unto them. Statum lacessunt omnipotentis Dei Calumniosis litibus. Fidem minutis dissecant ambagibus Ut quisque est linguar nequior. Solvunt ligantque quaestionum vincula Per Syllogismos plectiles. Indeed to see them come forth harnessed with Syllogisms and Sophisms, attended with Obs and Sols, speaking part the language of the Jews, and part the language of Ashdod, fighting and contending amongst themselves, as if they had sprung from the teeth of Cadmus Serpent, subjecting all the properties, decrees and actions of the holy God to your profane babblings, might perhaps beget some fear in the minds of men not much guilty of want of Constancy, ⟨p. 311⟩as the sight of the Harpies did of old to Aeneas and his Companions, of whom they gave that account, Tristius hand illis monstrum nec saevior ulla Pestis, & ira Deum, Stygiis sese extulit undis. Viaimus, & subita gelidus formidine sanguis Diriguit, cecidêre animi. But the Truth is, there is no real cause of fear of them:

Pag. 31. You observe that I say, the Schoolmen were the hammerers and forgers of Popery: And add, Alas Sir, I see that anger spoyls your memory; for in the twelfth and thirteenth Chapter you make Popery to be hammered and forged not a few hundreds of years before any Schoolmen were extant; And thorefore tell