A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Pag. 49. You take a view of the tenth Chapter of the Animadversions, opposed unto the thirteenth and fourteenth Paragraph of your Fiat Lax, wherein you pretend to set forth the various Pleas of those that are at Difference amongst us in matters of Religion. These you there distribute into Independents, Presbyterians and Protestants. Here omitting the Consideration of the two former, you apply your self unto what was spoken about Prelate Protestants as you call them. You endeavour, say you, ⟨p. 371⟩to disable both what I have set down to make against the Prelate Protestant, and also what I have said for him. I said in Fiat Lux, that it made not a little against our Protestants, that after the Prelate Protestancy was settled in England, they were forced for their own preservation against the puritans to take up some of those Principles again, which former Protestants had cast down for Popish, as is the Authority of the visible Church, efficacy of ordination, difference between Clergy and Laity. Here first you deny that these Principles are Popish; But Sir, there are some Jews even at this day who will deny any such man as Pontius Pilate to to have ever been in Jewry. I have other things to do then to fill volumes with useless texts, which here I might easily do out of the books both of the first Reformers and Catholic Divines and Councils.

PAg. 49. You take a view of the tenth Chapter of the Animadversions, opposed unto the thirteenth and fourteenth Paragraph of your Fiat Lax, wherein you pretend to set forth the various Pleas of those that are at Difference amongst us in matters of Religion. These you there distribute into Independents, Presbyterians and Protestants. Here omitting the Consideration of the two former, you apply your self unto what was spoken about Prelate Protestants as you call them. You endeavour, say you, ⟨p. 371⟩to disable both what I have set down to make against the Prelate Protestant, and also what I have said for him. I said in Fiat Lux, that it made not a little against our Protestants, that after the Prelate Protestancy was setled in England, they were forced for their own preservation against the •uritans to take up some of those Principles again, which former Protestants had cast down for Popish, as is the Authority of the visible Church, efficacy of ordination, difference between Clergy and Laity. Here first you deny that these Principles are Popish; But Sir, there are some Jews even at this day who will deny any such man as Pontius Pilate to to have ever been in Jewry. I have other things to do then to fill volumes with useless texts, which here I might easily do out of the books both of the first Reformers and Catholick Divines and Councils.