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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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But yet, if we are not pleased with what he is, we may be pleased with what he does; being so excellent a well accomplished person as he is; for he is one that was never known to let fall a word of passion. That, for casting off his Authority should procure thousands to be slain, and burned, without stirring up any Engine of Revenge, these are somewhat strange stories. Our Author grievously complains of uncivil carriage toward the Pope in England in all sorts, Men, Women, and Children. For my part, I justify no reviling accusation in any, against any whatever; but yet, I must tell him, that if he thinks to reclaim men from their hard thoughts of him, (that is, not of the person of this or that Pope, but of the office as by them managed) it must not be by telling him, he is a fine accomplished Gentleman, that he is a Prince, a Stranger, a Great way off, whom it is uncivil and unmannerly to speak so hardly of: but labour to show, that it is not his principle to impose upon the consciences of men, his apprehensions in the things of God; that he is not the great proclaimer of many false Opinions, Heresies, and Superstitions, ⟨p. 426⟩and that with a pretence of an Authority, to make them receive them whether they will or no; that he hath not caused many of their forefathers to be burned to death, for not submitting to his dictates, nor would do so to them, had he them once absolutely in his Power; that he hath never given away this Kingdom to strangers, and cursed the lawful Princes of it; that he pleads not a Sovereignty over them, and their Governors, inconsistent with the Laws of God and the Land: Haec, cedo, •dmoveant templis, & far litabo. For whilst the greatest part of men amongst us, do look upon him as the Antichrist foretold in the Scripture, guilty of the blood of innumerable Martyrs, and Witnesses of the truth of Christ; Others who think not so hardly of him, yet confess he is so like him, that by the marks given of Antichrist, he is the likeliest Person on the earth, to be apprehended on suspicion; all of them think, that if he could get them into his Power, which he endeavours continually, he would burn them to ashes;and that, in the mean time, he is the corrupt Fountain and ⟨p. 427⟩Spring of all the false Worship, Superstition, and Idolatry, wherewith the faces of many Churches are defiled.