A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

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.

But you lay more weight on what you cull out in the next place, which as you have laid it down is, That these now Christened Pagans advanced the Popes authority, when Christian Religion Was now grown degenerate, and say, now we come to know how the Roman Bishop became a Patriarch above the rest, by means namely of the new converted Pagans. But I wonder you speak so nicely in their chief affair. As though that were the Question whether the Bishop of Rome according unto some Ecclesiastical constitutions were made a Patriarch or no, and that whither he were not esteemed to have some kind of preeminence in respect of those other Bishops, who upon