A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

What do you intend by resigning our selves to humility and Peace? Do you not aim at our quiet submission to the determinations of the Church or Pope in all matters of Religion? Have you not declared your self unto this purpose in your Fiat? And I desire a little further to know of you, whither this be not that which formally constitutes a man a member of your Church, that he own the Judicative Power of the Pope or your Church in all matters of Religion, and submit himself thereunto? If these things be so, as you cannot deny them, I hope I shall easily obtain your pardon, for Affirming that you your self believed the same to be the design of your Book, which I and other men apprehended to be so; for here you directly avow it. If you complain any more about this matter, pray let it be in the words of him in the Comedian, Egomet meo judicio miser quasi sorex hodie perii, This inconvenience you have brought upon your own self: Neither can any man long avoid such misadventures, who designs to cloud his aims, which yet cannot take effect, if not in some measure understood. Naked Truth managed in sincerity, whatever perplexities it may meet withal, wit• never leave his owners in the briars; whereas the Serpentine turnings of Error and falsehood to extricate themselves, do but the more entangle their Promoters. I doubt not, bu• you hope well, that when all are become Papili• again, that they shall live at peace, though your •ope be very groundless as I have elsewhere demonstrated. You have at best ⟨p. 9⟩but the shadow or shell of peace, and for the most part, not that neither. Yea it may be easily showed, that the peace you boast of, is inconsistent with, and destructive of that peace, which is left by Christ unto his Disciples.

What do you intend by resigning our selves to humility and Peace? Do you not ayme at our quiet submission to the determinations of the Church or Pope in all matters of Religion? Have you not declared your self unto this purpose in your Fiat? And I desire a little further to know of you, whither this be not that which formally constitutes a man a member of your Church, that he own the Judicative Power of the Pope or your Church in all matters of Religion, and submit himself thereunto? If these things be so, as you cannot deny them, I hope I shall easily obtain your pardon, for Affirming that you your self believed the same to be the design of your Book, which I and other men apprehended to be so; for here you directly avow it. If you complain any more about this matter, pray let it be in the words of him in the Comoedian, Egomet meo judicio miser quasi sorex hodie perii, This inconvenience you have brought upon your own self: Neither can any man long avoid such misadventures, who designs to cloud his aymes, which yet cannot take effect, if not in some measure understood. Naked Truth mannaged in sincerity, whatever perplexities it may meet withall, wit never leave his owners in the bryars; whereas the Serpentine turnings of Errour and falshood to extricate themselves, do but the more entangle their Promoters. I doubt not, bu you hope well, that when all are become Papili again, that they shall live at peace, though your ope be very groundless as I have elswhere demonsirated. You have at best