A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Did you never hear how before the times that we now talk of, Irenaeus reproved Victor, how Cyprian opposed Cornelius and Stephen, how the Councils of Afric admonished Celestine and Boniface of their miscarriages in their claims of Power and Jurisdiction? Are you an utter stranger unto the opposition made by the German Emperors unto your Hildebrandine Supremacy, with the books written against your pretensions to that purpose? Have you not read your own Baronius a great part of whose Voluminous Annals consists in his endeavours to vindicate your Papal Power from the open opposition that was made to its introduction in every Age? You must needs sleep quietly, seeing you lye so far from noise. I have already in part let you see the fondness of this dream, ⟨p. 438⟩that your Papal Supremacy was ever calmly submitted unto, and have manifested that it was publicly condemned before it was born. But because I then confined my self unto more ancient times then those which are now under discourse, I shall mind you of a few instances of the opposition made unto it, either about or presently after that signal advancement, which I affirmed that it received from the newly converted Nations of the West.

Did you never hear how before the times that we now talk of, Irenaeus reproved Victor, how Cyprian opposed Cornelius and Stephen, how the Councils of Africk admonished Celestine and Boniface of their miscarriages in their claims of Power and Jurisdiction? Are you an utter stranger unto the opposition made by the German Emperours unto your Hildebrandine Supremacy, with the books written against your pretensions to that purpose? Have you not read your own Baronius a great part of whose Voluminous Annals consists in his endeavours to vindicate your Papal Power from the open opposition that was made to its introduction in every Age? You must needs sleep quietly, seeing you lye so far from noise. I have already in part let you see the fondness of this dream, ⟨p. 438⟩that your Papal Supremacy was ever calmly submitted unto, and have manifested that it was publickly condemned before it was born. But because I then confined my self unto more antient times then those which are now under discourse, I shall mind you of a few instances of the opposition made unto it, either about or presently after that signal advancement, which I affirmed that it received from the newly converted Nations of the West.