A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Your ensuing Discourse wherein you attempt to say something unto the ninth Chapter of the Animadversions is not unlike the preceding; and therefore I shall cast them under one head. Your business in it, is to cast a fresh dishonour upon Christian Religion by questioning the defensibility of its Principles against Jewish Objections, any otherwise then by an irrational Credo. Let us hear you speak in your own language; Your vaunting flourishes, You say, about Scripture which you love to talk on, will not without the help of your Credo and humble resignation solve the Argument, which that you may the easilier be quit of, you never examine, but only run on in your usual flourishes about the use and excellency of Gods Word. I told you in Fiat Lux, what the Jew will reply to all such reasonings: but you have the pregnant wit not to heed any thing that may hinder your flourishes; but if you were kept up in a Chamber with a learned Jew without bread, water and fire, till you had satisfied him in that objection, I am still well enough assured, for all your very vaunts, that if you do not make use of your Credo, which here you contemn, you might there stay till hunger and cold have made an end of you. The meaning of this Discourse is, that the Jews pretence ⟨p. 367⟩of rejecting Christ upon the Authority and Tradition of their Church, was not, nor is to be satisfied by Testimonies given in the Scripture unto the Person, Doctrine and Work of the Messiah. The sum of the Objection said down in your Fiat Lux is that which I have now mentioned; It was the Plea of the Jews against Christ and his Doctrine, managed from the Authority and Tradition of their Church; That Christ and his Apostles gave the Answer unto this objection, which I have now intimated, namely the Testimony of God himself in the Scripture to the Truth of that which they objected against, which was to be preferred unto the Authority and Testimony of their Church, I have undeniably proved unto you in the Animadversions; and it is manifest to every one that hath but read the New Testament with any Consideration or understanding. The same way was persisted in by the Ancient Fathers, as all their writings against the Jews do testify. And I must now tell you that your calling the validity of this Answer into Question, is highly injurious unto the honour of Christianity, and blasphemous against Christ himself.

Your ensuing Discourse wherein you attempt to say something unto the ninth Chapter of the Animadversions is not unlike the preceding; and therefore I shall cast them under one head. Your business in it, is to cast a fresh dishonour upon Christian Religion by questioning the defensibility of its Principles against Jewish Objections, any otherwise then by an irrational Credo. Let us hear you speak in your own language; Your vaunting florishes, You say, about Scripture which you love to talk on, will not without the help of your Credo and humble resignation solve the Argument, which that you may the easilier be quit of, you never examine, but only run on in your usual florishes about the use and excellency of Gods Word. I told you in Fiat Lux, what the Jew will reply to all such reasonings: but you have the pregnant wit not to heed any thing that may hinder your florishes; but if you were kept up in a Chamber with a learned Jew without bread, water and fire, till you had satisfied him in that objection, I am still well enough assured, for all your veryvaunts, that if you do not make use of your Credo, which here you contemn, you might there stay till hunger and cold have made an end of you. The meaning of this Discourse is, that the Jews pretence