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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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when indeed the most ready way to go out of the Catholic, is to go into the Roman.
when indeed the most ready way to go out of the Catholick, is to go into the Roman.
3. Moreover, it is taken for granted, That the Roman-Church is every way what it was, when first planted. Indeed, if it were so, it would deserve as much particular respect as any Church of any City in the World, and, that would be all: As it is, the case is altered. But its unalteredness being added to the former Supposition of its Oneliness and Catholicism, it is easy to see what sweet work a witty man, as our Author is, may make with this Church among good company. Many and many a time have the Romanists attempted to prove these things; but failing in their attempt, they think it now reasonable to take them for granted. The Religion they now profess, must be that which first entered England; and there, saith our Author, it continued in peace for a thousand years; when the truth is, after the entrance of their Religion, that is, the corruption of Christianity by Papal usurpations, these Nations never passed one age without tumults, turmoils, contentions, disorders; nor many without wars, blood and devastations, and those arising from the Principles of their Religion.
3. Moreover, it is taken for granted, That the Roman-Church is every way what it was, when first planted. Indeed, if it were so, it would deserve as much particular respect as any Church of any City in the World, and, that would be all: As it is, the case is altered. But its unalteredness being added to the former Supposition of its Oneliness and Catholicism, it is easie to see what sweet work a witty man, as our Author is, may make with this Church among good company. Many and many a time have the Romanists attempted to prove these things; but failing in their attempt, they think it now reasonable to take them for granted. The Religion they now profess, must be that which first entered England; and there, saith our Author, it continued in peace for a thousand years; when the truth is, after the entrance of their Religion, that is, the corruption of Christianity by Papal usurpations, these Nations never passed one age without tumults, turmoils, contentions, disorders; nor many without wars, bloud and devastations, and those arising from the Principles of their Religion.