A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

You say pag. 51. The Church says I must have a Bishop, or otherwise she will not have such a visible Head as she had at first. This that you may enervate, you tell me, that the Church hath still the same Head she had which is Christ, who is present with his Church by his Spirit and his Laws, and is man God still as much as ever he was; and ever the same will be; and if I would have any other visible Bishop to be head, then it seems I would not have the same head, and so would have the same, and not the same.

This is but one part of my answer, and that very lamely and imperfectly reported. The Reader if he please may see the whole of it, Ch. 10. p. 223, &c. and therewithal take a specimen of your ingenuity in this Controversy. It were very sufficient to render your following exceptions against it useless unto your purpose, merely to repeat what you seek to oppose; but because you shall not have any pretence, that any thing you have said is passed over undiscussed, I shall consider what you offer in way of exception to so much of my answer as you are pleased your self to express, and as may be supposed, thought ⟨p. 376⟩your self qualified to deal withal. Thus then you proceed;

This is but one part of my answer, and that very lamely and imperfectly reported. The Reader if he please may see the whole of it, Ch. 10. p. 223, &c. and therewithall take a specimen of your ingenuity in this Controversie. It were very sufficient to render your following exceptions against it useless unto your purpose, meerly to repeat what you seek to oppose; but because you shall not have any pretence, that any thing you have sayd is passed over undiscussed, I shall consider what you offer in way of exception to so much of my answer as you are pleased your self to express, and as may be supposed, thought ⟨p. 376⟩your self qualified to deal withal. Thus then you proceed;