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,…

OUR Author hopes, it seems, that by this time he hath brought his Disciples to Popery; that is the Title of the last Paragraph, to his business, not of his Book; for that which follows, being a parcel of the excellent speech of my Lord Chancellor, is about a matter wherein his concernment lies not: This is his close and farewell. They say, there is one, who, when he goes out of any place, leaves a worse favour at his departure, then he gave all the time of his abode; and he seems here to be imitated. The disingenuity of this Paragraph, the want of care, of truth, and of common honesty, that appears ⟨p. 436⟩in it, sends forth a worse favour then most of those, if not than any, or all of them, that went before. The design of it, is to give us a parallel of some Popish and Protestant Doctrines, that the beauty of the one may the better be set off by the deformity of the other. To this end he hath made no Conscience of mangling, defacing, and defiling of the latter. The Doctrines, he mentions, he calls the more plausible parts of Popery. Such as he hath laboured in his whole discourse to gild and •rick up with his Rhetoric, nor shall I quarrel with him for his doting on them: only, I cannot but wish, it might suffice him to enjoy and proclaim the beauty of his Church, without open slandering and defaming of ours. This is not handsome, civil, mannerly, nor conscientious. A few instances will manifest, whether he hath failed in this kind or no. The first plausible piece of Popery, as he calls it, that he presents us in his Antithesis, is the Obligation which all have who believe in Christ to attend unto good works, and the merit and benefit of so doing; in opposition whereunto he says Protestants teach, that there be no such