A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Your last attempt in this matter is to vindicate what you have said in your Fiat, as you now affirm, That the Bible was kept in an Ark or Tabernacle, not touched by the people, but brought out at times to the Priest that he might instruct the people out of it. To which you say, I answer, That the Ark was placed in the Sanctum Sanctorum which was not entered into but by the Priest and that only once a year; And Reply, But Sir I speak not there of any Sanctum Sanctorum, or of any Ark in that place; was there or could there be no more Arks but one? If you had been only in these latter days in any Synagogue or Convention of the Jews, you might have seen even now how the Bible is still kept with them in an Ark or Tabernacle, in imitation of their forefathers, when they have no Sanctum Sanctorum amongst them. You may also discern how according to your custom, they •ringe and prostrate at the bringing out of the Bible, which is the only solemn adoration left amongst them; there be more Arks then that in the Sanctum Sanctorum; if I had called it a Box or a Chest, or a Cupboard you had let it pass; but I used that word as more sacred.

Your last attempt in this matter is to vindicate what you have said in your Fiat, as you now affirm, That the Bible was kept in an Ark or Tabernncle, not touched by the people, but brought ont at times to the Priest that he might instruct the people out of it. To which you say, I answer, That the Ark was placed in the Sanctum Sanctorum which was not entred into but by the Priest and that only once a year; And Reply, But Sir I speake not there of any Sanctum Sanctorum, or of any Ark in that place; was there or could there be no more Arks but one? If you had been only in these latter days in any Synagogue or Convention of the Jews, you might have seen even now how the Bible is still kept with them in an Ark or Tabernacle, in imitation of their forefathers, when they have no Sanctum Sanctorum amongst them. You may also discern how according to your custome, they •ringe and prostrate at the bringing out of the Biblt, which is the only solemn adoration left amongst them; there be more Arks then that in the Sanctum Sanctorum; if I had called it a Box or a Chest, or a Cupboard you had let it pass; but I used that word as more sacred.