A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

What acquaintance you have with the Jews, we have in part seen already, and shall have occasion hereafter to examine a little further. In the mean time you may be pleased to take notice that men who know what they say, are not easily affrighted from it by a show of such Mormoes, as he in the Comedian was from his own house by his servants pretence that it was haunted by Sprites, when there were none in it, but his own debauched companions. I denied those Opinions to be Popish, and should do so still, were I accused for so doing before a Roman Judge as corrupt and wicked as Pontius Pilate. For I can prove them to be more Ancient then any part of Popery, in the sense explained in the Animadversions, and admitted generally by Protestants. We never esteem every thing Popish that Papists hold or believe. Some things in your Profession belong unto your Christianity, some things to your Popery. And I am persuaded you do not think this Proposition, Jesus Christ is the Son of God, to be Heretical, because ⟨p. 372⟩those whom you account Heretics do profess and believe it. Prove the Principles you mention to be invented by your selves, without any foundation in the Scripture, or constant suffrage of the Ancient Churches, and you prove them to be Popish, to be your own. If you cannot do so, though Papists profess them, yet they may be Christian. This is spoken as to the Principles themselves, not unto your explanation of them, which in sundry particulars is Popish, which were never owned by Prelate Protestants. You proceed, You challenge me to prove that these Principles were ever denied by our Prelate Protestants, And this you do wittily and like your self. You therefore bid me prove that those principles were ever denied by our Prelate Protestants, because I say that our Prelate Protestants here in England, as soon as they became such, took up again those forenamed Principles, which Protestants their forefathers both here in England and beyond Seas before our Prelacy was set up had still rejected. When I say then that our Prelate Protestants affirmed and asserted those Principles which former Protestants denied, you bid me prove that ever our Prelate Protestants ever denied them.

What acquaintance you have with the Jews, we have in part seen already, and shall have occasion hereafter to examine a little further. In the mean time you may be pleased to take notice that men who know what they say, are not easily affrighted from it by a shew of such Mormoes, as he in the Comaedian was from his own house by his servants pretence that it was haunted by Sprights, when there were none in it, but his own debauched companions. I denyed those Opinions to be Popish, and should do so still, were I accused for so doing before a Roman Judge as corrupt and wicked as Pontius Pilate. For I can prove them to be more Antient then any part of Popery, in the sense explained in the Animadversions, and admitted generally by Protestants. We never esteem every thing Popish that Papists hold or believe. Some things in your Profession belong unto your Christianity, some things to your Popery. And I am perswaded you do not think this Proposition, Jesus Christ is the Son of God, to be Heretical, because