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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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persecuting them with Fire and Sword, to the utter depopulation of some Countries, and the defiling of the most of Europe with bloody cruelties. What course shall we take in the contest of assertions, that we may be able to make a right Judgment concerning him? I know no better than this, a little to examine apart the particulars of his Excellency as they are given us by our Author, especially the most eminent of them; and weigh whether they are given in according to truth or no.
persecuting them with Fire and Sword, to the utter depopulation of some Countreys, and the defiling of the most of Europe with bloudy cruelties. What course shall we take in the contest of assertions, that we may be able to make a right Judgment concerning him? I know no better than this, a little to examine apart the particulars of his Excellency as they are given us by our Author, especially the most eminent of them; and weigh whether they are given in according to truth or no.
The first that we mentioned was, That ⟨p. 421⟩the Gospel was originally from him, and to him we are beholding for it. This we cannot readily receive; it is certainly untrue, and fearfully blasphemous to boot. The Gospel was originally from Christ; and to him alone are we beholding for it, as hath been before declared. Another is, That Kingly Authority amongst us, and his Crown-Land is from him. This is false and seditious. Kingly Authority in General is from God, and by his Providence was it established in this Land, before the Pope had any thing to do here; nor doth it lean in the least on his warranty, but hath been supported without the Papacy, and against all its Oppositions, which have not been a few. A third is, that, humanely speaking, had not he been set over us, we had not had this day either Truth or Unity. I know not well, what you mean by, humanely speaking; but I am sure, so to blaspheme the care and love of Christ to his Church, and the sufficiency of his Word and promised Spirit to preserve Truth in the World, without the Pope, whose aid in this work he never once thought of, requested appointed, is, if not inhumane and barbarous, ⟨p. 422⟩