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,…

why they must now all by degrees turn Atheists, I know no reason to fear, nor presume doth our Author, but that he is prompted to like his conjecture, by his love to his Countrymen, desiring they may follow them, who are so commended for their wit.

why they must now all by degrees turn Atheists, I know no reason to fear, nor presume doth our Author, but that he is prompted to like his conjecture, by his love to his Countreymen, desiring they may follow them, who are so commended for their wit.

But we must proceed with the improvement of this consideration. Pag. 11. If the Papist, or Roman-Catholic, who first brought the news of Christ and his Christianity into the Land, as all men must needs know, that have either heard or read of Christianities▪ ingress into England, or other Countries and Kingdoms, (for we do no sooner hear news of Christianity than Popery, and its Crucifixes, Monasteries, Relics, Sacrifice, and the like), I say, If the Papist le now become so odious, as we see he is, and if the faith he brought and maintained a thousand years together, be now rent all asunder by Sects and Factions, which bandy all to the ruin of that Mother-Religion; if all her practical Truths, wherein chiefest Piety consists, be already abandoned as erroneous; doth not this justify the Pagan whom this Catholic Christian displaced to make ⟨p. 164⟩way for his own Law? And must not this be a certain way and means to introduce Atheism, which naturally follows that faith once removed, even as a carcass succeeds a living body once deceased? For, one truth denied, is a fair way to question another, which came by the same hand; and this, a third: till the very Authority of the first Revealer be at stake, which can no more defend himself then he can his Law? For the same Axe and Instrument, that cut down the branches, can cut up the root too; and, if his reverence, for which all the rest was believed, defend not their truth, it must needs at length utterly fail in his own; for all the Authority they had was purely from him, and he fails in them before he falls in himself. [Greek or Hebrew]. That the Papists, or Roman-Catholics, first brought Christ and his Christianity into this Land, is most untrue; and I wonder how any one that hath read any story of the Times that are past, should so often aver what he cannot but know to be untrue. The Gospel might have been brought into England by Romans, and yet not by Papists; for I cannot find, nor can this Gentleman show, that the