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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,…
Animadversions on a treatise entitled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion, between papist and Protestant, Presbyterian and independent by a Protestant.Animadversions on a treatise intituled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion, between papist and Protestant, Presbyterian and independent by a Protestant.
London: printed by E. Cotes for Henry Cripps, 1662
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CHAP. XIX.
Communion. Sect. 26.
IN the next Section, entitled Table, our Author seems to have lost more of the moderation that he pretends unto, & to have put a keener edge upon his spirit, then in any of those fore-going; and thence it is, that he falls out into some more open revilings, and flourishes of a kind of a Dispute, than elsewhere. In the entrance of his discourse, speaking of the administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper by Protestants, wherein the Laity are also made partakers of the blessed Cup, according to the Institution of our Saviour, the practice of the Apostles and the Universal Primitive Church; this civil Gentleman who complains of unhandsome and unmannerly dealings, of others in their writings, compares it to a treatment at my Lord Mayors Feast, adding scornfully enough, ⟨p. 366⟩For who would not have drink to their meat? and what reason can be given, that they should not? or that a feast with Wine should not, caeteris paribus, be better then without. If he suppose, he shall be able to scoff the Institutions of Christ out of the world, and to laugh men out of their Obedience unto Him, I hope, he will find himself mistaken, which is all, I shall at present say unto him; only, I would advise him to leave for the future such unseemly taunts, lest he should provoke some angry men to return expressions of the like contempt and scorn, upon the transubstantiated Host, which he not only fancies, but adores.
IN the next Section, entituled Table, our Author seems to have lost more of the moderation that he pretends unto, & to have put a keener edg upon his spirit, then in any of those fore-going; and thence it is, that he falls out into some more open revilings, and flourishes of a kind of a Dispute, than elsewhere. In the entrance of his discourse, speaking of the administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper by Protestants, wherein the Laity are also made partakers of the blessed Cup, according to the Institution of our Saviour, the practice of the Apostles and the Universal Primitive Church; this civil Gentleman who complains of unhansome and unmannerly dealings, of others in their writings, compares it to a treatment at my Lord Maiors Feast, adding scornfully enough,