A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

There is no such affinity between Truth and Error, however any men may endeavour to blend them together, but that others may separate between them, and reject the one without any prejudice unto the other; male sarta gratia nequaquam coit. Yea the Truth and Light of the Gospel is of that nature, as that if it be once sincerely received in the mind and embraced, it will work out all those false notions, which by any means together with it may be instilled: As rectum is index sui & obliqui. Whilst then we know and are persuaded that in any System of Religion which is proposed unto us, it is only error which we reject, having an infallible Rule for the guidance of our judgement therein, there is no danger of weakening our assent unto the Truth which we retain. Truth and falsehood can never stand upon the same bottom, nor have the same evidence, though they may be proposed at the same time unto us, and by the same Persons. So that there is no difficulty in apprehending how the one may be received, and the other rejected. Nor may it be granted (though their concernment lye not therein at all) that if a man reject or disbelieve any point of Truth that is delivered unto him in an entire System of Truths, that he is thereby made inclinable to reject the rest also, or disenabled to give a firm assent unto them, unless he reject or disbelieve it upon a notion that is common to ⟨p. 339⟩them all. For instance; He that rejects any Truth revealed in the Scripture on this ground, that the Scripture is not an infallible Revelation of Divine and supernatural Truth, cannot but in the pursuit of that apprehension of his, reject also all other Truths therein revealed, at least so far as they are knowable only by that Revelation. But he that shall disbelieve any Truth revealed in the Scripture, because it is not manifest unto him to be so revealed, and is in a readiness to receive it when it shall be so manifest, upon the Authority of the Author of the whole, is not in the least danger to be induced by that disbelief to question any thing of that which he is convinced so to be revealed. But as I said, your Concernment lies not therein, who are not able to prove that Protestants have rejected any one part, much less substantial part of Religion;

There is no such affinity between Truth and Errour, however any men may endeavour to blend them together, but that others may separate between them, and reject the one without any prejudice unto the other; male sarta gratia nequaquam coit. Yea the Truth and Light of the Gospel is of that nature, as that if it be once sincerely received in the mind and embraced, it will work out all those false notions, which by any means together with it may be instilled: As rectum is index sui & obliqui. Whilest then we know and are perswaded that in any Systeme of Religion which is proposed unto us, it is only error which we reject, having an infallible Rule for the guidance of our judgement therein, there is no danger of weakning our assent unto the Truth which we retain. Truth and falshood can never stand upon the same bottom, nor have the same evidence, though they may be proposed at the same time unto us, and by the same Persons. So that there is no difficulty in apprehending how the one may be received, and the other rejected. Nor may it be granted (though their concernment lye not therein at all) that if a man reject or disbelieve any point of Truth that is delivered unto him in an entire Systeme of Truths, that he is thereby made enclinable to reject the rest also, or disenabled to give a firm assent unto them, unless he reject or disbelieve it upon a notion that is common to