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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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These are the goodly Principles, the honest Suppositions of the discourse which our Author ends his Third Book ⟨p. 243⟩withal. It could not but have been a tedious thing, to take them up by pieces, as they lie scattered up and down, like the limbs of Medea's Brother, cast in the way to retard her pursuers. The Reader may now take a view of them together, and thence of all that is offered to persuade him to a relinquishment of his present profession and Religion. For the Stories, Comparisons, Jests, Sarcasms, that are intermixed with them, I suppose he will know how to turn them to another use.
These are the goodly Principles, the honest Suppositions of the discourse which our Author ends his Third Book ⟨p. 243⟩withal. It could not but have been a tedious thing, to take them up by pieces, as they lie scattered up and down, like the limbs of Medea's Brother, cast in the way to retard her persuers. The Reader may now take a view of them together, and thence of all that is offer'd to perswade him to a relinquishment of his present profession and Religion. For the Stories, Comparisons, Jests, Sarcasms, that are intermixed with them, I suppose he will know how to turn them to another use.
Some very few particulars need only to be remarked. As,
1. No man can say what ill Popery did in the world until Henry the Eighths days. Strange! when it is not only openly accused, but proved guilty of almost all the evil that was in the Christian world, in those days; particularly of corrupting the Doctrine and Worship of the Gospel, and debauching the lives of Christians,