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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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its certain he pleaded his miracles, the Works which he wrought, and the Doctrine that he revealed: but withal, as to the Jews with whom he had to do, he pleads the Scriptures, Moses and the Prophets, and offers himself and his Doctrine to be tried, to stand or fall by their verdict, Joh. 5.39, 46. Mat. 22.42. Luk. 24.27. I say, besides the testimony of his Works and Doctrine, to their authority of the Church, he opposeth that of the Scripture, which he knew the other ought to give place unto. And it is most vainly pretended, by our Author, in the behalf of the Jews, that the Messiah, or great Prophet to come, was not in the Scripture specified by such Characteristical Properties, as made it evident that Jesus was the Messiah; all the descriptions ⟨p. 206⟩given of the one, and they innumerable, undeniably centring in the other. The same course steered the Apostle Peter, Act. 2. & 3. And expressly in his second Epistle, chap. 2. v. 17, 18, 19. And Paul, Act. 13.16, 17, &c. And of Apollos, who openly disputed with the Jews upon this Argument, it is said, that he mightily convinced the Jews, publicly showing by the Scripture, that Jesus is the Christ, Act. 18.28. And Paul persuaded the Jews concerning Jesus at Rome, both out of the Law of Moses, and out of the Prophets, from morning until evening, Act. 28.23. Concerning which labour and disputation, the censure of our Author, p. 149. is very remarkable. There can be no hope, saith he, of satisfying a Querent, or convincing an Opponent, in any point of Christianity, unless he will submit to the splendour of Christs Authority in his own Person, and the Church descended from him: which I take to be the Reason, why some of the Jews in Rome, when St. Paul laboured so much to persuade Christ out of Moses and the Prophets, believed in him, and some did not. Both the coherence of the words and design of the Preface, and his whole