A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

First you say, I have heard many grave Protestant Divines ingenuously acknowledge that divine Comfort and Sanctity of life requisite unto Salvation, which Religion aims at, may with more perfection and less inconvenience be attained by the Customs of the Roman Church then that of ours. For Religion is not to fit perching upon the lips, but to be got by heart, it consists not in reading but doing, and in this, not in that, lives the substance of it, which is soon and easily conveyed. Christ our Lord drew a Compendium of all divine Truths in two words, which our great Apostle again abridged into one. Ans. (1.) I hope you will give me leave a little to suspend my assent unto what you affirm. Not that I question your veracity as to the matter of fact related by you, that some Persons have told you what you say, but I suppose you are mistaken in them. For whereas the Gospel is the Doctrine of Truth according unto Godliness, and the promotion of Holiness and Consolation (which cannot at all be promoted but in ways and by means of Gods appointment) is the next end of all Religion; they can be no Protestant Divines who acknowledge this end to be better attainable in your way, then their own; because such an acknowledgement would be a virtual renunciation of their Protestancy. The judgement of this Church, and all the real grave Divines of it, is perfectly against you, and should you condescend unto them in other things, would not embrace your communion, whilst you impose upon them a necessity of Celebrating the worship of God in a tongue unknown unto them, amongst whom and for whose s•ke, it is publicly celebrated. The reasons you subjoin to the concession ⟨p. 531⟩you mention, I presume are your own, they are like to many others that you make use of. The best sense of the entrance of your words that I can make, is in that description they afford us of the worship of your Church as to the peoples concernment in it. The words of it may •it perching upon your lips, as on the tongue of a Parrot, or it may be, may be got by heart, or as we say without Book, when the sense of them affects not your minds nor understandings at all.

First you say, I have heard many grave Protestant Divines ingenuously acknowledge that divine Comfort and Sanctity of life requisite unto Salvation, which Religion aymes at, may with more perfection and less inconvenience be attained by the Customs of the Roman Church then that of ours. For Religion is not to fit perching upon the lips, but to be got by heart, it consists not in reading but doing, and in this, not in that, lives the substance of it, which is soon and easily conveighed. Christ our Lord drew a Compendium of all divine Truths in two words, which our great Apostle again abridged into one. Ans. (1.) I hope you will give me leave a little to suspend my assent unto what you affirm. Not that I question your veracity as to the matter of fact related by you, that some Persons have told you what you say, but I suppose you are mistaken in them. For whereas the Gospel is the Doctrine of Truth according unto Godliness, and the promotion of Holiness and Consolation (which cannot at all be promoted but in wayes and by means of Gods appointment) is the next end of all Religion; they can be no Protestant Divines who acknowledge this end to be better attainable in your way, then their own; because such an acknowledgement would be a vertual renunciation of their Protestancy. The judgement of this Church, and all the reall grave Divines of it, is perfectly against you, and should you condescend unto them in other things, would not embrace your communion, whilest you impose upon them a necessity of Celebrating the worship of God in a tongue unknown unto them, amongst whom and for whose ske, it is publickly celebrated. The reasons you subjoyn to the concession