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,…

Of the Pretences• before-mentioned, some with their genuine inferences, are the main Principles of this whole Discourse. And seeing they bear the weight of all the pleas, reasonings, and persuasions that are drawn from them, which can have no further real strength and efficacy, then what is from them ⟨p. 36⟩communicated unto them, I shall present them in one view to the Reader, that he loose not himself in the maze of words, wherewith our Author endeavours to lead him up and down, still out of his way; and, that he may make a clear and distinct judgement of what is tendered to prevail upon him to desert that Profession of Religion wherein he is engaged. For, as I dare not attempt to deceive any man, though in matters incomparably of less moment then that treated about; so, I hope, no man can justly be offended, if in this, I warn him to take heed to himself, that he be not deceived. And they are these that follow; I. That we in these Nations first received the Christian Religion from Rome, by the Mission and Authority of the Pope. II. That whence, and from whom, we first received our Religion; there, and wi•h them, we ought to abide, to them we must repair for guidance in all our concernments in it, and speedily return to their Rule and Conduct, if we have departed from them. ⟨p. 37⟩III. That the Roman Profession of Religion and Practise in the Worship of God, is every way the same as it was when we first received our Religion from thence; nor can ever otherwise be. IV. That all things as to Religion were quiet and in peace, all men in union and at agreement amongst themselves, in the Worship of God, according▪ to the mind of Christ, before the Relinquishment of the Roman-See by our fore-fathers. V. That the First Reformers were the most of them sorry contemptible persons, whose Errors were propagated by indirect means, and entertained for sinister ends. VI. That our departure from Rome hath been the cause of all our evils, and particularly, of all those Divisions which are at this day found amongst the Protestants, and which have been ever since the Reformation. VII. That we have no Remedy of our Evils, no means of ending our differences but by a return unto the Rule of the Roman-See. ⟨p. 38⟩