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,…

And these fine Discourses of the actuosity of the eye above the ear, and its faculty of administering to the fancy; are but pitiful weak attempts for men that have no less work in hand, then to set up their own wisdom in the room of, and above, the wisdom of God.

And these fine Discourses of the actuosity of the eye above the ear, and its faculty of administring to the fancy; are but pitiful weak attempts for men that have no less work in hand, then to set up their own wisdom in the room of, and above, the wisdom of God.

And our Author is utterly mistaken, if he think, the sole end of preaching the Cross and Death of Christ, is to work out such representations to the mind, as Oratory may effect for the moving of corresponding affections. This may be the end of some mens Rhetorical Declamations about it. If he will a little attentively read over the Epistles of Paul, he will discern other ends in his preaching Christ, and him crucified, which the fancies he speaks of, have morally little affinity with all.

But what if Catholics having nothing to say for their practice in the adoration of Images, seeing the Protestants have nothing but simple pretences for their removal out of Churches; these simple pretences are express reiterate commands of God: which what value they are of with the Romanists, when they lay against their ways and practice, is evident. The Arguments of Protestants when they deal with the Romanists, are not directed against this, or that, part of their doctrine or practice about Images, but the whole; that is, the making of them, some of God himself, the placing of them in Churches, and giving them religious adoration; not to speak of the abominable miscarriages of many of their Devotionists in teaching, or of their people in committing with them as gross Idolatry, as ever any of the ancient Heathens did; which shall at large be proved, if our Author desires it. Against this principle, and whole practise, one of the Protestants pretences, as they are called, lays in the second Commandment, wherein the making of all Images for any such purpose, is expressly