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,…

It seems then, that which was promised them in Moses's Law, was Eternal Life in some place citra coelum, or citra culum, until the coming of the Messiah; for this he would fain prove that they believed, and that rightly. This I confess, is a rare notion: and I know not whether it be do fide, or no; but this I am sure, that it is the first time that ever I heard of it, though I have been a little conversant with some of his great masters. But the truth is, our Author hath very ill success for the most part, when he talks of the Jews; as most men have, when they talk of what they do not understand. Eternal ⟨p. 410⟩life, and everlasting reward, the enjoyment of God in bliss, was promised no less truly in the old Testament, then under the new, though less clearly; and our Author grants it, by confessing that the estate of the Saints in rest extra Coelum, to be admitted thither upon the entrance made into it by the Messiah, was promised to them, and believed by them, though any such promise made to them, or any such belief of them, as should give us the specification of the reward they expected, he is not able to produce.

It seems then, that which was promised them in Moses's Law, was Eternal Life in some place citra coelum, or citra culum, until the coming of the Messias; for this he would fain prove that they believed, and that rightly. This I confess, is a rare notion: and I know not whether it be do fide, or no; but this I am sure, that it is the first time that ever I heard of it, though I have been a little conversant with some of his great masters. But the truth is, our Author hath very ill success for the most part, when he talks of the Jews; as most men have, when they talk of what they do not understand. Eternal ⟨p. 410⟩life, and everlasting reward, the enjoyment of God in bliss, was promised no less truly in the old Testament, then under the new, though less clearly; and our Author grants it, by confessing that the estate of the Saints in rest extra Coelum, to be admitted thither upon the entrance made into it by the Messias, was promised to them, and believed by them, though any such promise made to them, or any such belief of them, as should give us the specification of the reward they expected, he is not able to produce.