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,…

Of the Discourse upon this Meshach what ever it is, there are sundry parts. That he begins with, is a preference of the devotion of the Romanists incomparably above that of the Protestants. This was the entrance of his Discovery. Catholics Bells ring oftener then ours, their Churches are swept cleaner then ours; yea, ours in comparison of theirs are like stables to a Princely Palace; their ⟨p. 288⟩People are longer upon their knees, than ours, and upon the whole matter they are excellent every way in their Worship of God, we every way blame worthy and contemptible: Unto all which, I shall only mind him of that good old advice; Let thy neighbour praise thee, and not thine own mouth. And as for us, I hope we are not so bad, but that we should rejoice truly to hear, that others were better. Only we could desire, that we might find their excellency to consist in things not either indifferent wholly in themselves, or else disapproved by God, which are the ways that Hypocrisy usually vents it self in, and then boast of what it hath done. Knowledge of God and his Will, as revealed in the Gospel, real mortification, abiding in spiritual Supplications, diligent in Universal Obedience, and fruitfulness in good works, be as I suppose, the things which render our profession beautiful, and according to the mind of God. If our Author be able, to make a right Judgement of these things, and find them really abounding amongst his party, I hope, we shall rejoice with him, though we knew ⟨p. 289⟩the Spring of them is not their Popery, but their Christianity. For the outside-shows, he hath as yet instanced in, they ought not, in the least, to have influenced his Judgement in that disquisition of the Truth, wherein he pretends he was engaged. He could not of old have come amongst the Professors and Mystae of those false Religions, which by the light and power of the Gospel, are now banished out of the World, where he should not have met with the same Visors and appearances of Devotion, so that hitherto we find no great discoveries, in his Meshach.

Of the Discourse upon this Messach what ever it is, there are sundry parts. That he begins with, is a preference of the devotion of the Romanists incomparably above that of the Protestants. This was the entrance of his Discovery. Catholicks Bells ring oftner then ours, their Churches are swept cleaner then ours; yea, ours in comparison of theirs are like stables to a Princely Pallace; their