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,…

1. It is supposed in the whole Discourse of these Sections; That from the Roman-Church so stated, as now it is, or from the Pope, we here in England first received the Gospel; which is the Romanists own Religion, and theirs by donation from them, whom they have here pleased to accommodate with it. This animates the whole, and is besides the special life of almost every sentence. A lifeless life; for, that there is not a syllable of truth in it, hath been declared before; nor, were it so, that by the Ministry of the Roman-Church of old, the Faith was first planted in these Nations, would that one ⟨p. 230⟩inch promote our Author's pretensions, unless he could prove, that they did not afterwards lose, or corrupt, at least, that which they communicated unto us; which he knows to be the thing in Question, and not to be granted upon request, though made in never so handsome words. To say then, That the Gospel is the Romanists own Religion, from them you had it, you contend about that which is none of your own; hear them whose it is, from whom you had it, who have the precedency before you; is but to set up scare-Crows to fright fools and children: Men who have any understanding of things past, know that all this bluster and noise comes from emptiness of any solid matter or substance to be used in the case.

1. It is supposed in the whole Discourse of these Sections; That from the Roman-Church so stated, as now it is, or from the Pope, we here in England first received the Gospel; which is the Romanists own Religion, and theirs by donation from them, whom they have here pleased to accommodate with it. This animates the whole, and is besides the special life of almost every sentence. A lifeless life; for, that there is not a syllable of truth in it, hath been declared before; nor, were it so, that by the Ministry of the Roman-Church of old, the Faith was first planted in these Nations, would that one ⟨p. 230⟩inch promote our Author's pretensions, unless he could prove, that they did not afterwards lose, or corrupt, at least, that which they communicated unto us; which he knows to be the thing in Question, and not to be granted upon request, though made in never so handsome words. To say then, That the Gospel is the Romanists own Religion, from them you had it, you contend about that which is none of your own; hear them whose it is, from whom you had it, who have the precedency before you; is but to set up scare-Crows to fright fools and children: Men who have any understanding of things past, know that all this bluster and noyse comes from emptiness of any solid matter or substance to be used in the case.