A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Quam diu enim pauculo illo homines contenti fuerunt, tam diu res tuae ex sententia successêre, •aedemq, in contrarium labi caeperunt ex quo ulterius legi vulgo usurpatum est. Hic ille (in summa) Est liber qui praeter caeteros hasce nobis tempestates ac turbines conciliavit quibus prope abreptisumus. Et sane siquis illum diligenter expendat, deinde quae in nostris fieri ecclestis consueverunt, singula ordine contempletur, videbis plurimum inter se dissidere, & hanc doctrinam nostram ab illa prorsus diversam esse ac saepe contrariam etiam. Quod simul atque homines intelligant, à docto scilicet aliquo adversariorum stimulati, nou ante clamandi finem faciunt, quam rem plane omnem divulgaverint, nosque invisos omnibus reddiderint. Quare occultandae pauculae illae chartulae sed abhibita ⟨p. 358⟩quadam caution & diligentia, ne ea res majores nobis turbas ac tumultus excitet, Last of all, that which is the most Weighty of all the advices which that at this time we shall give unto you, we have reserved for the close of all. Your eyes are here to be opened; you are to endeavour with the utmost of your power, that as little as may be of the Gospel (especially in any vulgar tongue) be read in those Cities which are under your government and Authority; but let that little suffice them which is wont to be read in the Mass (of which mind you also know who is) neither let it be lawful for any man to read any more of it. For as long as men were contented with that little, your affairs were as prosperous as heart could desire, and began immediately to decline upon the custom of reading any more of it. This is in brief that book which above all others hath procured unto us those tempests and storms wherewith we are almost carried away headlong. And the Truth is, if any one shall diligently consider it, and then seriously ponder on all the things that are accustomed to be done in our Churches, he will find them to be very different the one from the other, and our Doctrine to be divers from the Doctrine thereof, yea and oftentimes plainly contrary unto it. Now this when men begin to understand, being stirred up by some learned man or other amongst the adversaries, they make no end of clamouring until they have divulged the whole matter, and rendered us hateful unto all.

Quam diu enim pauculo illo homines contenti fuerunt, tam diu res tuae ex sententia successêre, •aedemq, in contrarium labi caeperunt ex quo ulterius legi vulgo usurpatum est. Hic ille (in summa) Est liber qui praeter caeteros hasce nobis tempestates ac turbines conciliavit quibus prope abreptisumus. Et sane siquis illum diligenter expendat, deinde quae in nostris fieri ecclestis consueverunt, singula ordine contempletur, videbis plurimum inter se dissidere, & hanc doctrinam nostram ab illa prorsus diversam esse ac saepe contrariam etiam. Quod simul atque homines intelligant, à docto scilicet aliquo adversariorum stimulati, nou ante clamandi finem faciunt, quam rem plane omnem divulgaverint, nosque invisos omnibus reddiderint. Quare occultandae pauculae illae chartulae sed abhibita