A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

1. Upon all occasions they set forth themselves; the dignity and preeminence of your See, with swelling Encomiums and Titles, asserting their own Primacy and Power. Such self assumings are many of the old Papal Epistles stuffed withal. A sober humble Christian cannot but nauseate at the reading of them. For it is easily discernible how Antievangelical such Courses are, and how unbecoming all that pretend themselves to be Disciples of Jesus Christ; from these are their chiefest Testimonies in this Case taken; and we may say of them all, they bear witness to themselves, and that contrary to the Scripture, and their witness is not true.

1. Upon all occasions they set forth themselves; the dignity and preheminence of your See, with swelling Encomiums and Titles, asserting their own Primacy and Power. Such self assumings are many of the old Papal Epistles stuffed withall. A sober humble Christian cannot but nauseate at the reading of them. For it is easily discernable how Antievangelical such Courses are, and how unbecoming all that pretend themselves to be Disciples of Jesus Christ; from these are their chiefest Testimonies in this Case taken; and we may say of them all, they bear witness to themselves, and that contrary to the Scripture, and their witness is not true.

2. When, and wherever such Letters and Epistles as proclaimed their Privileges have been admitted through the inadvertency of Modesty of them to whom they were sent, unwilling to quarrel with them about the good opinion which they had of themselves (which kind of entertainment they yet sometimes met not withal) the next successors always took for granted, and pleaded what their predecessors had presumptuously broached, as that which of right and unquestionably belonged unto them. And this they made sure of, that they would never lose any ground, or take any one step backwards from what any of them had advanced unto.

2. When, and wherever such Letters and Epistles as proclaimed their Priviledges have been admitted through the inadvertency of Modesty of them to whom they were sent, unwilling to quarrel with them about the good opinion which they had of themselves (which kind of entertainment they yet sometimes met not withall) the next successors allwayes took for granted, and pleaded what their predecessours had presumptuously broached, as that which of right and unquestionably belonged unto them. And this they made sure of, that they would never lose any ground, or take any one step backwards from what any of them had advanced unto.