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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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CHAP. VIII.
Use of Reason. Sect. 11.
This Section is set apart for the cashiering of Reason from having any hand in the business we deal about; and the truth is, if our Author can persuade us first to throw away our Bibles, and then to lay aside the use of our Reason, I suppose, there is no doubt but we shall become Roman-Catholics. This work, it seems, cannot be effected, unless men are contented to part with Scripture and Reason; all that whereby they are Christians and Men. But unless our Author have emptied Circe's Box of Ointment, whereby she transformed Men into Swine, he will confess it somewhat a difficult task that he hath undertaken. Methinks one of these demands might suffice at once. But he presumes he hath ⟨p. 189⟩put his Country-men into a good humour, and knowing them free and open-hearted, he plies them whilst they are warm.
THis Section is set apart for the cashiering of Reason from having any hand in the business we deal about; and the truth is, if our Author can perswade us first to throw away our Bibles, and then to lay aside the use of our Reason, I suppose, there is no doubt but we shall become Roman-Catholicks. This work, it seems, cannot be effected, unless men are contented to part with Scripture and Reason; all that whereby they are Christians and Men. But unless our Author have emptyed Circe's Box of Oyntment, whereby she transformed Men into Swine, he will confess it somewhat a difficult task that he hath undertaken. Methinks one of these demands might suffice at once. But he presumes he hath ⟨p. 189⟩put his Countrey-men into a good humor, and knowing them free and open-hearted, he plyes them whilest they are warm.