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,…

If indeed himself be otherwise minded, and believes not what he says, but only intends to entangle men by his Sophistry, so to render them pliable unto his further intention, I must yet once more persuade him to desist from this course. It doth not become an ingenious man, much less a Christian, and one that boasts of so much Mortification as he doth, to juggle thus with the things of God. In the mean time, his Reader may take notice, that so long as he is able to defend the Authority, Excellency, and Usefulness of the Scripture, this man had nothing to say to him, as to the change of his Religion from Protestancy to Popery. And when men will be persuaded to let that go as a thing uncertain, dubious, useless, it matters not much where they go themselves. And for our Author, methinks, if not for reverence ⟨p. 238⟩to Christ, whose book we know the Scriptures to be; yet for the devotion he bears the Pope, whose book he says it is, he might learn to treat it with a little more respect; or at least prevail with him, to send out a book not liable to so many exceptions, as this is pretended to be. However, this I know, that though his pretence be to make men Papists, the course he takes is the readyest in the world to make them Atheists; and whether that will serve his turn or no, as well as the other, I know not.

If indeed himself be otherwise minded, and believes not what he says, but only intends to entangle men by his Sophistry, so to render them plyable unto his further intention, I must yet once more perswade him to desist from this course. It doth not become an ingenious man, much lesse a Christian, and one that boasts of so much Mortification as he doth, to juggle thus with the things of God. In the mean time, his Reader may take notice, that so long as he is able to defend the Authority, Excellency, and Usefulness of the Scripture, this man had nothing to say to him, as to the change of his Religion from Protestancy to Popery. And when men will be perswaded to let that go as a thing uncertain, dubious, useless, it matters not much where they go themselves. And for our Authour, methinks, if not for reverence ⟨p. 238⟩to Christ, whose book we know the Scriptures to be; yet for the devotion he bears the Pope, whose book he sayes it is, he might learn to treat it with a little more respect; or at least prevail with him, to send out a book not liable to so many exceptions, as this is pretended to be. However, this I know, that though his pretence be to make men Papists, the course he takes is the readyest in the world to make them Atheists; and whether that will serve his turn or no, as well as the other, I know not.