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, for the method which he would have us believe not to be, and yet to be concealed, it is rather [Greek or Hebrew] then [Greek or Hebrew] rather a crafty various distribution of enticing words, and plausible pretences to inveigle and delude men unlearned and unstable, then any decent contexture of, or fair progress in, a Rational Discourse, or Regular Disposition of nervous Topics, to convince or persuade the minds of men, who have their eyes in their heads. I shall therefore ⟨p. 23⟩little trouble my self further about it, but only discover it as occasion shall require; for, the Discovery of Sophistry is its proper Confutation.

And, for the method which he would have us believe not to be, and yet to be concealed, it is rather 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 then 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 rather a crafty various distribution of entising words, and plausible pretences to enveagle and delude men unlearned and unstable, then any decent contexture of, or fair progress in, a Rational Discourse, or Regular Disposition of nervous Topicks, to convince or perswade the minds of men, who have their eyes in their heads. I shall therefore ⟨p. 23⟩little trouble my self further about it, but only discover it as occasion shall require; for, the Discovery of Sophistry is its proper Confutation.

However the course he steers is the same that good St. Paul used in his Epistle to the Romans, which hath, as he tells us, most of solidity and least of method of all his Epistles; I confess, I knew not before, that his Church had determined which of St. Paul's Epistles had most of solidity, which least. For I have such good thoughts of him, that, I suppose, he would not do it of his own head: nor do I know, that he is appointed Umpire to determine upon the Writings that came all of them by Inspiration from God, which is most solid. This therefore must needs be the sense of his Church, which he may be acquainted with, twenty ways that I know not of. And here his Protestant visor which by and by he will utterly cast off, fell off from him, I presume at unawares. That he be no more so entrapped, I wish he would take notice against the next time he hath occasion to personate a Protestant; that although for method purely