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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. X.
Protestant Pleas.
His Sect. 13. p. 155. entitled Independent and Presbyterians Pleas, is a merry one. The whole design of it seems to be, to make himself and others sport with the miscarriages of men in and about Religion. Whether it be a good work or no, that day that is coming will discover. The Independents he divides into two parts, Quakers and Anabaptists. Quakers he begins withal, and longest insists upon, being, as he saith, well read in their Books, and acquainted with their persons; some commendation he gives them, so far as it may serve to the disparagement of others, and then falls into a fit of Quaking, so expressly imitating them in their Discourses, that I fear he will confirm some in their surmises, that such as he, both set them on work, and afterwards assisted them ⟨p. 214⟩in it. For my part, having undertaken only the defence of Protestancy and Protestants, I am altogether inconcerned in the entertainment he hath provided for his Readers, in this personating of a Quaker, which he hath better done, and kept a better decorum in, than in his personating of a Protestant; a thing in the beginning of his Discourse he pretended unto. The Anabaptists, as far as I can perceive, he had not meddled with, unless it had been to get an advantage of venting his pretty Answer to an Argument against Infant-Baptism; but the truth is, if the Anabaptists had no other Objections against Infant-Baptism, nor Protestants no better Answers to their Objections then what are mentioned here by our Author, it were no great matter what become of the Controversy: but it is Merriment, not Disputation, that he is designing; and I shall leave him to the solace of his own fancies.