Chapter 20

To the sixteenth Chapter of the Animadversions directed to your Paragraph of the Blessed Virgin, you can find it seems nothing to say, and therefore betake your self to clamorous revilings. All that you say in your Fiat on this head, is but an heap of false accusations against Protestants for dishonouring her; and all that you say in your Epistle in its Vindication is railing at me for minding you of your miscarriage. My whole Book you say is nothing but calumnies, a bundle of slanders, a mere quiver of sharp arrows of desolation. I am not sorry that you are sensible that it has arrows in it, tending to the desolation of your abominations. But I challenge you to give an instance of any one calumny or slander in it, from the beginning to the end. If you do not do so, I here declare you to be really and highly guilty of that which you would falsely impose upon another. Free your self by some one instance if you can: if you cannot, your reputation will follow your conscience whether it will be hard for you to find them again. The substance of that Chapter is this, which is all that I shall now say to your nothing against it. Protestants yield to the blessed Virgin all the honor that the Scripture allows them, or direct them to, or that the Primitive Church did ascribe to her, and the Papists give her the honor due to God alone, whereby they horribly dishonour God and her.