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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,…
Animadversions on a treatise entitled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion, between papist and Protestant, Presbyterian and independent by a Protestant.Animadversions on a treatise intituled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion, between papist and Protestant, Presbyterian and independent by a Protestant.
London: printed by E. Cotes for Henry Cripps, 1662
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2. What is the meaning of that which follows, If there be no value or merit in good Works? Who ever taught that there is no value in good Works? that they are not commanded of God, that they are not accepted with him, that they ⟨p. 173⟩are not our duty to be careful in the performance of; that God is not honoured, the Gospel adorned, the Church and the World advantaged by them? Do all these things put no value on them? For their merit, the expression being ambiguous, unscriptural, and, as commonly interpreted, derogatory to the glory of Christ, and the Grace of God; we shall let it pass, as proper to his purpose: and much good may it do him with all that he gains by it.
3. If (saith he) God's Laws be impossible to be kept; but, Who said so? Protestants teach indeed, that men in their own strength cannot keep the Laws of God; That the Grace received in this life extends not to an absolute sinless perfection in their observation, which is inconsistent with the Covenant of Grace, and mens walking with God therein: but, that the Laws of God were in their own nature impossible to be observed by them to whom they were first given, or, that they are yet impossible to be kept in that way of their sincere observation which is required in the Gospel, Protestants teach not that I know of. He proceeds.
4. If Christ be not our Law-maker and Director of doing well, as well as our Redeemer from ill. This is a little too open and plain; doth he think any man will believe him, that Protestants or Presbyterians ▪ teach that Christ is not our Law-maker and Director of doing well, &c. I dare say, he believes not one word of it himself, what confidence soever he hath taken upon him of imposing on the minds of weak and unstable men.