The orthodox faith and vvay to the Church explaned and iustified in answer to a popish treatise, entituled, White died blacke; wherein T.W. p. in his triple accusation of D. White for impostures, vntruths, and absurd illations, is proued a trifler: and the present controuersies betweene vs and the Romanists are more fully deliuered and cleared. By Francis White Bachelour in Diuinitie, and elder brother of Doctor Iohn White.

In T. W. fuco suo denigrantem candidissimum Doctorem, qui à germano suo in natiuam de∣nuò reductus est albedinem.

FVcator, quis sit, luci haud satis est, amarulentam Pennam saginans stygeo veneno, Dente arido corrodit mordicus, vndique albicantem Famam, nitentem maculans colorem. Sarcina, quisquis at es, plenum chaos & calumniarum, Non candidatum potis es nigrare, Vndi{que} quem niueus decorauit amictus, atque lucens Albedo, vultus, animi{que} candor: Albescens pietas: niueus color innocentiae{que}: Virtutis albens, lucidum{que} lumen. Nec roseum fucus vultum tuus inquinauit istum, Fusca aut nigredo nubilauit vlla, Ni vis vt hic sit olor niger, atra auis illa rara: dirae Aut mortis, inquis, denigrasse nubem. At non crudeles Parcae, potuere prorsus istum Turpare cygnum morte succinentem. Nam candet virtus post funus: amictus at{que} coelo, Isthic stolaa alba, despicit caduca,

Lacteam & ipsa viam est emensab galaxia. At fuisset Mirum nec istud, candidum colorem Nigrasse: assuetum hoc fucantibus; at reducere istum Rursus nigrorem in pristinum nitorem, Hic labor, hoc opus est, hoc mirum, & inusitatum: At alter En frater istud praestitit superstes. Frustra igitur probris hoc conspuis albicans ligustrum, Cuius nitorem nebula sorores Fatiferae nulla potuêre operire, nec colorem Posthac nigredo Coelicum inquinabit.

Notes

• a

  Apoc. c. 7. v. 9.13.14. &c. 3. v. 4.5. &c. 6. v. 11.
• b

  Non imme∣rito candissimus Doctor appella∣tur galaxia: qui lacteum illum s••••ipsit librum qui inscribitur, Lactea ad verā Ecclesiam Via, &c.