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 Psalmist indeed complains, that they broke down the [Greek or Hebrew], or carved works, in the walls and ceiling of the Temple; but that those apertiones, or incisurae, were not Pictures and Images for the people to adore and venerate, or were appointed for their instruction, if our Author knows not, he knows whither to repair to be instructed, viz. to any Comment, old or new, extant on that Psalm. And it is no small confidence to use Scripture out of the old Testament, for the Religious use of images, of mens finding out and Constitution; whereas they may find as many Testimonies for more Gods; enow indeed, wherein the one are denied, and the other forbidden.

The Psalmist indeed complains, that they broke down the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or carved works, in the walls and seeling of the Temple; but that those apertiones, or incisurae, were not Pictures and Images for the people to adore and venerate, or were appointed for their instruction, if our Author knows not, he knows whither to repair to be instructed, viz. to any Comment, old or new, extant on that Psalm. And it is no small confidence to use Scripture out of the old Testament, for the Religious use of images, of mens finding out and Constitution; whereas they may finde as many Testimonies for more Gods; enow indeed, wherein the one are denyed, and the other forbidden.

Nor will the ensuing contemplation of the means whereby we come to learn things we know not, namely by our senses, whence Images are suited to do that ⟨p. 318⟩by the eye, which Sermons do by the ear, and that more effectually, yield him any relief in his devotion for them. There is this small difference between them, that the one means of instruction is appointed by God himself; the other, that is pretended to be so, absolutely forbidden by him.