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,…

The main design of this discourse is, to cry up the Sacrifice that the Catholics have in their Churches, but not the Protestants. This Sacrifice he tells us, was the sum of all Apostolical Devotion, which Protestants have abolished. Strange! that in all the writings of the Apostles, there should not one word be mentioned of that which was the sum of their Devotion. Things, surely, judged by our Author, of less importance, are at large handled in them. That they should not directly, nor indirectly, once intimate that which, it seems, was the sum of their devotion, is, I confess, to me, somewhat strange. They must make this concealment, either by design or oversight. How consistent the first is with their goodness, holiness, love to the Church; the latter with their wisdom and infallibility, either with their office, and duty; is easy to judge. Our Author tells us, They have a Sacrifice after the order of Melchizedek, Paul tells us, indeed, that we have a High Priest, after the order of Melchizedek; but, as I remember, this is the first time that ever I heard of a Sacrifice after the order of Melchizedek; ⟨p. 298⟩though I have read somewhat that Roman Catholics say about Melchisedechs Sacrifice. Our Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, offered a Sacrifice, that none ever had done before, nor can do after him, even Himself. If the Romanists think to offer him, they must kill him. The Species of Bread and Wine, are but a thin Sacrifice, next door to nothing, yea, somewhat worse then nothing, a figment of a thing impossible, or the shadow of a dream, nor will they say they are any. It is true, which our Author pleads in justification of the Sacrifice of his Church, That there were Sacrifices among the Jews, yea, from the beginning of the World, after the entrance of sin, and promise of Christ to come made to sinners. For, in the state of innocency, there was no Sacrifice appointed, because there was no need of an atonement. But all these Sacrifices, properly so called, had no other use in Religion, then to prefigure and represent the great Sacrifice of himself to be made, by the Son of God, in the fullness of time. That being once performed, all other Sacrifices were to cease; ⟨p. 299⟩I mean, properly so called;

The main design of this discourse is, to cry up the Sacrifice that the Catholicks have in their Churches, but not the Protestants. This Sacrifice he tells us, was the sum of all Apostolical Devotion, which Protestants have abolished. Strange! that in all the writings of the Apostles, there should not one word be mentioned of that which was the sum of their Devotion. Things, surely, judged by our Author, of less importance, are at large handled in them. That they should not directly, nor indirectly, once intimate that which, it seems, was the sum of their devotion, is, I confess, to me, somewhat strange. They must make this concealment, either by design or oversight. How consistent the first is with their goodness, holiness, love to the Church; the latter with their wisdom and infallibility, either with their office, and duty; is easie to judge. Our Author tells us, They have a Sacrifice after the order of Melchizedeck, Paul tells us, indeed, that we have a High Priest, after the order of Melchizedech; but, as I remember, this is the first time that ever I heard of a Sacrifice after the order of Melchisedech;