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,…

Had he intended plain dealing, and to persuade men by Reason and Arguments, he should nakedly and openly have laid down the doctrine and practise of his Church in this matter, and have attempted to justify the one and the other. This had been done like a man who liked and approved what his Interest forced him to defend; and upon honest Principles sought to draw others to share with him in their worth and excellency. But he takes quite another course, and bends his design to cover his ware, and to hood-wink his Chapmen, so to strike up a blind bargain between them.

Had he intended plain dealing, and to perswade men by Reason and Arguments, he should nakedly and openly have laid down the doctrine and practise of his Church in this matter, and have attempted to justifie the one and the other. This had been done like a man who liked and approved what his Interest forced him to defend; and upon honest Principles sought to draw others to share with him in their worth and excellency. But he takes quite another course, and bends his design to cover his ware, and to hood-wink his Chapmen, so to strike up a blind bargain between them.

Two things he knows, that in the Doctrine of his Church about the Veneration of Saints, Protestants are offended at.

1. That we ought religiously to invocate and call upon, pray unto them, flying unto them for help and assistance; which are the very words of the Trent-Council, the avowed Doctrine of his Church, which whosoever believes not is cursed.