Animadversions on a treatise entitled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion,…Animadversions on a treatise intituled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion,…

with inveterate prejudices, love of the world, and the customs thereof, do all help on this s•d work wherein so many are employed. That some preach the Gospel of God [Greek or Hebrew] with all their strength, in much contention, and contend earnestly for the Faith once delivered unto the Saints; as it is their duty, so it is no cause, but only an accidental occasion, of differences amongst men. That the invisible substances our Author talks of, should be able to sport themselves with us as Children do with Dogs in the street, and that with the like impulse from them, as Dogs from these, we should rush into our contentions, might pass for a pretty notion, but only that it over-throws all Religion in the ⟨p. 128⟩world, and the whole nature of man. There is evil enough in corrupted nature to produce all these evils which are declaimed against to the end of this Section, were there no Daemons to excite men unto them. The adventitious impressions from them, by temptations and suggestions, doubtless promote them, and make men precipitate above their natural tempers in their productions; but the principal cause of all our evils is still to be looked for at home, Nec te quaesiveris extra.

with inveterate prejudices, love of the world, and the customs thereof, do all help on this s•d work wherein so many are imployed. That some preach the Gospel of God 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 with all their strength, in much contention, and contend earnestly for the Faith once delivered unto the Saints; as it is their duty, so it is no cause, but only an accidental occasion, of differences amongst men. That the invisible substances our Author talks of, should be able to sport themselves with us as Children do with Dogs in the street, and that with the like impulse from them, as Dogs from these, we should rush into our contentions, might pass for a pretty notion, but only that it over-throws all Religion in the ⟨p. 128⟩world, and the whole nature of man. There is evil enough in corrupted nature to produce all these evils which are declaimed against to the end of this Section, were there no Daemons to excite men unto them. The adventitious impressions from them, by temptations and suggestions, doubtless promote them, and make men precipitate above their natural tempers in their productions; but the principal cause of all our evils is still to be looked for at home, Nec te quaesiveris extra.