A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

The first Principle imputed unto your Fiat Lux is, That we received the Gospel first from Rome. To which you say, We, that is we English men, received it first from thence. Well then, this is one Principle of the Ten; this you own and seek to defend, If you do so in reference unto any other, what will become of your hardly one that you can own? You have already one foot over the limits which you have newly ⟨p. 38⟩prescribed your self; and we shall find you utterly forsaking of them by and by. For the present you proceed unto the defence of this Principle and say, But against this you reply, that we received it not first from Rome, but by Joseph of Arimathea from Palestine, as Fiat Lux himself acknowledgeth: Sir, if Fiat Lux say both these things, he cannot mean them in your false contradictory sense, but in his own true one, We, that is, we Englishmen, the now actual inhabitants of this Land and progeny of the Saxons, received first our Gospel and Christendom from Rome, though the Britons that inhabited the Land before, differing as much from us as Antipodes, had some of them been Christened long before us, and yet the Christendom that prevailed and lasted among the Britons, even they also as well as we, had it from Rome too; mark this likewise. This matter must be called over again afterwards, and therefore I shall here be the more brief upon it. In my first Answer, I showed you not only that your position was not true; but also, that on supposition it were so, it would not in the least advance your intention. Here you acknowledge that the Britons at first received not the Gospel from Rome; but reply two things, first, that belongs not unto us Englishmen or Saxons. To which I shall now only say, that if because the Britons have been conquered, we who are now the inhabitants of Britain, may not be thought to have received the Gospel from them, from whom the Britons at first received it, seeing it was never utterly extinct in Brittany from its first plantation, then much less can the present inhabitants of the City of Rome, which hath been conquered oftener than Britain, be thought to have received the Gospel from them by whom it was first delivered unto the old Romans.

The first Principle imputed unto your Fiat Lux is, That we received the Gospell first from Rome. To which you say, Wee, that is we English men, received it first from thence. Well then, this is one Principle of the Ten; this you own and seek to defend, If you do so in reference unto any other, what will become of your hardly one that you can own? You have already one foot over the limits which you have newly