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,…

neither do they acknowledge, nor can he prove it very vain, yet with these empty flourishes, it is incredible, how he triumphs over Protestants, for charging the Romanists with excluding the People from the use of the Cup in the Sacrament; when yet it is certain, they do so, nor can he deny it. Yea, but Protestants should not say so, Seeing they believe not in Transubstantiation. They ⟨p. 369⟩believe every word, that Christ or his Apostles have delivered, concerning the nature and use of the Sacrament, and all that the Primitive Church taught about it; if this will not enable them to say, the Romanists do that, which all the world knows they do, and which they will not deny but that they do, unless they believe in Transubstantiation also; they are dealt withal on more severe terms, then I think our Author is authorized to put upon them. But, it seems, the advantage lies so much in this matter on the Roman-Catholics side, that the Protestants may be for ever silent about it; and why so? Why Catholics do really partake of the animated and living body of their Redeemer; this ought to be done, to the end we may have life in us, and yet Protestants do it not. Who told you so? Protestants partake of his Body and his Blood too, which Papists do not; and that really and truly. Again; Catholics have it continually sacrificed before their eyes and the very death and effusion of their Lords blood prefigured and set before them, for faith to feed upon: This Protestants have not. I think the man is mistaken; ⟨p. 370⟩and that he intended to say the Catholics have not, and to place Protestants in the beginning of the sentence; for it is certain, that this is the very doctrine of the Protestants concerning this Sacrament. They have in it the Sacrifice of Christ before their eyes, and the death and effusion of his blood, figured, (for how that should be prefigured which is past, I know not) and set forth for faith to feed upon; This they say, this they teach, and believe; When I know not how Catholics can have any thing figured unto them, nothing being the sign of its self; nor is it the feeding of Faith, but of the Mouth, that they are solicitous about. But this, saith he, they do not; though he had not spoken of any doing before, which is an old last that we have been now well used to; and, yet this, saith he, ought to be done:

neither do they acknowledge, nor can he prove it very vain, yet with these empty flourishes, it is incredible, how he triumphs over Protestants, for charging the Romanists with excluding the People from the use of the Cup in the Sacrament; when yet it is certain, they do so, nor can he deny it. Yea, but Protestants should not say so, Seeing they believe not in Transubstantiation. They