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,…

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⟩yet bold and presumptuous. That Christ hath no less showed his Divinity in him then in his own person, is an expression of the same nature, or of a more dreadful, if possible it may be. I speak seriously, I do not think this is the way to make men in love with the Pope. No sooner is such a word spoken, but immediately the wicked bestial lives, the ignorance, Atheisms, and horrid ends of many of them, present themselves to the thoughts of men, and a tremor comes over their hearts, to hear men open their mouths with such blasphemies, as to affirm, that the Lord Christ did as much manifest his Divinity and Power in such Beasts, as in his own Person. Yea, that he is more miraculous in him, then he was in himself: What proof, Sir, is there of this? Where is the Scripture, where the Antiquity, where the Reason for it? We tell you truly, we cannot believe such monstrous figments upon their bare affirmation. Yea, but this is not all, Christ is beholding to him for all the faith of his Deity that is in the world; Why so? Why, by the only Authority of his place and person, he defended it. When? When it was opposed ⟨p. 423⟩by the Arians, and he called his Council of Nice, where he condemned them. Who would not be sick of such trifles?