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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. I.
Our Author's Preface. And his Method.
IT is not any Disputation, or Rational debate about Differences in Religion that our Author intends; nor, until towards the close of his Treatise, doth he at all fix directly on any thing in Controversy between Romanists and Protestants. In the former parts of his Discourse, his Design is sometimes covered, always carried on in the way of a Rhetorical Declamation; so, that it is not possible, and is altogether needless to trace all the particular passages and expressions as they lye scattered up and down in his Discourse, which he judgeth of advantage unto him in the management of the ⟨p. 20⟩work he has undertaken. Some Suppositions there are which lye at the bottom of his whole Superstructure, quickening the Oratory and Rhetorical, part of it, (undoubtedly it's best,) which he chose rather to take for granted, then to take upon himself the trouble to prove. These being drawn forth and removed, what ever he hath built upon them, with all that paint and flourish wherewith it is adorned, will of it self fall to the ground. I shall then first briefly discuss what he offers as to the method of his procedure, and then take this for my own; Namely, I shall draw out and examine the Fundamental Principles of his Oration, upon whose trial the whole must stand or fall, and then pass through the severals of the whole Treatise, with such Animadversions, as what remaineth of it, may seem to require.
IT is not any Disputation, or Rational debate about Differences in Religion that our Author intends; nor, until towards the close of his Treatise, doth he at all fix directly on any thing in Controversie between Romanists and Protestants. In the former parts of his Discourse, his Design is sometimes covered, alwayes carryed on in the way of a Rhetorical Declamation; so, that it is not possible, and is altogether needless to trace all the particular passages and expressions as they lye scattered up and down in his Discourse, which he judgeth of advantage unto him in the mannagement of the