A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

The Judge of all the world will do right. Nor doth he afflict any people, much less extirpate them from the face of the earth without a Cause. Many wicked, provoking, sinful Idolatrous Nations, he spareth in his patience and forbearance, and will yet do so; but he destroys none without a Cause. And all that I intended by the ⟨p. 434⟩remembrance of the sins of those Nations, which were exposed unto devastation, was but to show that their destruction was of themselves.

The Judge of all the world will do right. Nor doth he afflict any people, much less extirpate them from the face of the earth without a Cause. Many wicked, provoking, sinful Idolatrous Nations, he spareth in his patience and forbearance, and will yet do so; but he destroyes none without a Cause. And all that I intended by the ⟨p. 434⟩remembrance of the sins of those Nations, which were exposed unto devastation, was but to shew that their destruction was of themselves.

You leap unto another clause which you rend out of my discourse, that these Pagans took at last unto Christianity, and say, happily because it was a more loose and wicked life then their own Pagan Profession. But are you not ashamed of this trifling? doth this disprove my Assertion? Is it not true? Did they not do so? Did not the above mentioned Nations when they had settled themselves in the Provinces of the Empire, take upon them the Profession of the Christian Religion? Did not the Saxons do so in Brittany the Franks in Gaul, the Goths and Longobards in Italy, the Vandals in Afric, the Huns in Bannonia? I cannot believe you are so ignorant in these things, as your exceptions bespeak you. Nor do I well understand what you intend by them, they are so frivolous and useless, nor surely can any man in his right wits suppose them of any validity to impeach the evidence of the known stories, which my discourse relates unto.

You leap unto another clause which you rend out of mydiscourse, that these Pagans took at last unto Christianity, and say, happily because it was a more loose and wicked life then their own Pagan Profession. But are you not ashamed of this trifling? doth this disprove my Assertion? Is it not true? Did they not do so? Did not the above mentioned Nations when they had settled themselves in the Provinces of the Empire, take upon them the Profession of the Christian Religion? Did not the Saxons do so in Brittany the Francks in Gaule, the Goths and Longobards in Italy, the Vandals in Africk, the Huns in Bannonia? I cannot believe you are so ignorant in these things, as your exceptions bespeak you. Nor do I well understand what you intend by them, they are so frivolous and useless, nor surely can any man in his right wits suppose them of any validity to impeach the evidence of the known stories, which my discourse relates unto.