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,…

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.

Other things mentioned by him are ambiguous; as, If the seven Sacraments be deemed vain, most of them, &c. Of the things themselves, which they term Sacraments, there is scarce any of them by Protestants esteemed vain; that one of Unction, which they judge now useless, they only say, is an unwarrantable imitation of that which was useful: Of the rest, which they reject, they reject not the things, but those things from being Sacraments; and a practice in Religion is not presently condemned as vain, which is not esteemed a Sacrament. There is no less ambiguity in that other Supposition, If the real Body of our Lord be not bequeathed to his Spouse in his last Will and Testament; ⟨p. 175⟩