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,…

But to evidence the fertility of his invention, our Author offers two things to confirm this wild Assertion. 1. That the Jews neither heard, nor saw when their Priest went into the Sanctum Sanctorum, to offer prayers for them; as we may learn ⟨p. 355⟩from the Gospel, where the people stood without, whilst Zechariah was praying at the Altar. 2. Saint Paul at Corinth, desired the prayers of the Romans for him at that distance, who also then used a Language that was not used at Corinth. These reasons, it seems, are thought of moment; let us a little poise them. For the first, our Author is still the same in his discovery of skill in the Rites and Customs of the Judaical Church; and, being so great, as I imagine it is, I shall desire him, in his next, to inform us, who told him, that Zechariah entered into the Sanctum Sanctorum to pray, when the people were without; but let that pass: By the institution and appointment of God himself, the Priests in their Courses, were to burn incense on the Altar of incense, in a place separated from the people, it being no part of the worship of the people, but a Typical representation of the Intercession of Christ in heaven, confined to the performance of the Priests by God himself; ergo under the Gospel, there is no need, that the people should either learn or understand those prayers, which God requires by them, and ⟨p. 356⟩amongst them. This is civil Logic. Besides, I suppose, our Author had forgot, that the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Hebrews, doth purposely declare, how those Mosaical distances are now removed by Christ, a free access being granted to Believers with their worship, to the Throne of Grace. But there is scarce a prettier fancy in his whole Discourse, then his application of St. Paul's desiring the Romans to pray for him, when he was at Corinth, and so consequently the praying of all or any of the people of God, for their absent friends, or the whole Church, to the business in hand; especially as it is attended with the enforcement in the Close, that they used a Language not understood at Corinth. But because I write not to men, who care not whether they hear or understand, what is their duty in the greatest concernments of their souls, I shall not remove it out of the way, nor hinder the Reader from partaking in the entertainment it will afford him.

But to evidence the fertility of his invention, our Author offers two things to confirm this wilde Assertion. 1. That the Jews neither heard, nor saw when their Priest went into the Sanctum Sanctorum, to offer prayers for them; as we may learn