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 relinquishment of Temples, discouragement of Priests in their daily Sacrifices, and heavenly Contemplations, with other Votaries; contempt of holy Altars, Images, and Statua's of Worthies deceased, all Heaven-bred Ceremonies and comely Worship by the means of Christians, he expatiates upon. Doth he profess love and compassion to his Countrymen, to draw them off from their folly, to have been the cause of his writing? So doth Celsus. Doth he deride and scoff at the first Reformers, with ⟨p. 34⟩no less witty and biting Sarcasms than those wherewith Aristophanes jeered Socrates on the Stage? Celsus deals no otherwise with the first Propagators of Christianity. Hath he taken pains to palliate and put new glosses and interpretations upon those Opinions and Practises in his Religion, which seem most obnoxious to exception? The same work did Celsus undertake, in reference to his Pagan Theology and Worship. And in sundry other things may the parallel be traced; so, that I may truly say, I cannot observe any thing of moment or importance of the nature of a general Head or Principle in this whole Discourse made use of against Protestants, but that the same was used, as by others of old, so in particular, by Celsus, against the whole Profession of Christianity. I will not be so injurious to our Author, as once to surmise, that he took either aim, or assistance, in his work from so bitter a professed Enemy of Christ Jesus, and the Religion by him revealed; yet he must give me leave to reckon this coincidence of argumentation between them, amongst other instances ⟨p. 35⟩that may be given, where a similitude of Cause hath produced a great likeness, if not identity, in the reasonings of ingenious men. I could not satisfy my self without remarking this parallel; and perhaps, much more needs not to be added, to satisfy an unprejudiced Reader in, or to, our whole business: For, if he be one that is unwilling to fore-go his Christianity, when he shall see, that the Arguments that are used to draw him from his Protestancy, are the very same in general, that wise men of old made use of to subvert that which he is resolved to cleave unto; he needs not much deliberation with himself what to do, or say, in this case, or be solicitous what he shall answer, when he is earnestly entreated to suffer himself to be deceived.

the relinquishment of Temples, discouragement of Priests in their dayly Sacrifices, and heavenly Contemplations, with other Votaries; contempt of holy Altars, Images, and Statua's of Worthies deceased, all Heaven-bred Ceremonies and comely Worship by the means of Christians, he expatiates upon. Doth he profess love and compassion to his Countreymen, to draw them off from their folly, to have been the cause of his writing? So doth Celsus. Doth he deride and scoff at the first Reformers, with