A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

For though I confess that the Saxons, ⟨p. 39⟩Jutes, and Angles made great havoc of the Ancient Britons in some parts of this Island, yet was it not comparable unto that which was made at Rome; which at length Totilas, after it had been taken and sacked more than once before, marching out of it against Belisarius, left as desolate as a wilderness without one living soul to inhabit it. Ipse (Totilas) cum suarum copiarum part progreditur, Romanos qui Senatorii erant ordinis secum trahens; alia omni urbanorum multitudine vel virilis muliebrisque sexus, & puer is in Campaniae agres missis: ita ut Romae nemo hominum restaret, sed vasta ibi esset solitudo, saith Procopius, Hist, Goth. l. 3. Concerning which action saith Sigonius de Imper. Occid. lib. 19. Urbs Roma incolis omnibus amotis, prorsus est destituta: memorandum inter pauca exempla humanae fortune ludibrium, ac spectaculum ipsis etiam hostibus, quanquam ab omni humanitate remotissimis, miserandum. The City of Rome, all its Inhabitants being removed, was wholly desolate, an unparalleled reproach of humane condition, and a spectacle of pity to the very enemies, though most remote from all humanity! Tb next inhabitants of it, were a mixture of Greeks, Thracians, and other Nations brought in by Belisarius: You may go now and reproach the Britons if you please, with their being conquered by the Saxons; in the mean time pray give me a reason, why the present Inhabitants of England, may not date their reception of Christianity from the first planting of it in this Island, as well as you suppose the present Inhabitants of Rome may do theirs, from the time wherein it was first preached unto the old Romans? But you except again; that the Christendom that prevailed and lasted among the Britons before the coming of the Saxons, came from Rome too; you bid me, mark that likewise. ⟨p. 40⟩I do consider what you say, and desire you to prove it: wherein yet I will not be very urgent, because I will not put you upon impossibilities; and your incompetency to give the least colour unto this Remarkable Assertion, shall be discovered in our further progress. For the present, I shall only mind you, that the Christianity which prevailed in Brittany, was that which continued among the Britons in Wales, after the conquest of these parts of the Island by the Saxons;

For though I confess that the Saxons, ⟨p. 39⟩