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,…

For the rest of this Section, wherein he is pleased to sport himself in the miscarriages of men in their coining and propagating of their Opinions, and to gild over the care and success of the Church of Rome, in stifling such births of pride and darkness, I shall not insist upon it. For as the first as generally tossed up and down, concerns none in particular, though accompanied with the repetition of such words as ought not to be scoffed at; so the latter is nothing but what violence and ignorance may any where, and in any age, produce. There are Societies of Christians, not a few, in the East, wherein mere darkness and ignorance of the Truth, hath kept men at peace in Errors, without the least disturbance by contrary opinions amongst themselves, for above a 1000 years; and yet they have wanted the help of outward force to secure their Tranquillity. And is it any wonder, that where both these powerful Engines are set at work for the same end, if in ⟨p. 140⟩some measure it be compassed and effected. And if there be such a thing among the Romanists (which I have reason to be difficult in admitting the belief of) as that they can stifle all Opinions, as fast as they are conceived, or destroy them as soon as they are brought forth; I know it must be some device or artifice unknown to the Apostles and Primitive Churches; who notwithstanding all their Authority and care for the Truth, could not with many compass that end.

For the rest of this Section, wherein he is pleased to sport himself in the miscarriages of men in their coyning and propagating of their Opinions, and to gild over the care and success of the Church of Rome, in stifling such births of pride and darkness, I shall not insist upon it. For as the first as generally tossed up and down, concerns none in particular, though accompanyed with the repetition of such words as ought not to be scosfed at; so the latter is nothing but what violence and ignorance may any where, and in any age, produce. There are Societies of Christians, not a few, in the East, wherein meer darkness and ignorance of the Truth, hath kept men at peace in Errors, without the least disturbance by contrary opinions amongst themselves, for above a 1000 years; and yet they have wanted the help of outward force to secure their Tranquillity. And is it any wonder, that where both these powerful Engins are set at work for the same end, if in ⟨p. 140⟩