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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. XIV.
Popish Contradictions.
This is our last task; our Author's own Story of himself, and rare observations in the Roman-Religion, make up the close of his Discourse, and merit in his thoughts the title of Discovery. The design of the whole is to manifest his Catholic Religion to be absolutely unblameable, by wiping off some spots and blemishes that are cast upon it; indeed by gilding over with fair and plausible words some parts of their profession & worship which he knew to be most liable to the exceptions of them with whom he intends to deal. His way of managing this Design, that he may seem to do something new, is, by telling a fair tale of himself, and his Observations with the effects they had upon him; which is but the putting of a a new tune to an old Song, that hath been chanted at our doors, these 100. years; ⟨p. 279⟩and some he hopes are so simple, as to like the new tune, though they were sick of the old Song. His entrance is, a blessing of the world with some knowledge of himself, his Parentage, Birth, and Education, and proficiency in his Studies▪ as not doubting, but that great enquiry must needs be made after the meanest concernments of such an Hero, as by his achievements and travails he hath manifested himself to be. And indeed, he hath so handsomely and delightfully given us the Romance of himself and Popery, that it was pity he should so unhappily stumble at the threshold, as he hath done, and fall upon a misadventure that to some men will render the design of his discourse suspected. For whereas he doth else-where most confidently aver, that no trouble ever was raised amongst us by the Romanists; here at unawares he informs us, that his own Grand-father lost both his life and his estate, in a Rebellion raised in the North on the account of that Religion. Just as before, attempting to prove, that we received Christianity originally from Rome, he tells us, that the first Planters of it, came directly from Palestine. It is