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,…

Not to be known to be the Word of God, but by the Testimony of the Roman Church: 2. Cannot be well translated into our vulgar Language: 3. Is in it self obscure: And, 4. We have none to determine of the sense of it. IX. That the Pope is a good man, one that seeks nothing but our good, that never did us harm, and hath the care and inspection of us committed unto him by Christ. X. That the Devotion of the Catholics, far transcends that of Protestants, nor is their Doctrine or Worship liable to any just exception▪

Not to be known to be the Word of God, but by the Testimony of the Roman Church: 2. Cannot be well translated into our vulgar Language: 3. Is in it self obscure: And, 4. We have none to determine of the sense of it. IX. That the Pope is a good man, one that seeks nothing but our good, that never did us harm, and hath the care and inspection of us committed unto him by Christ. X. That the Devotion of the Catholicks, far transcends that of Protestants, nor is their Doctrine or Worship liable to any just exception▪

I suppose, our Author will not deny these to be the Principal nerves and sinews of his Oration; nor complain, I have done him the least injury in this representation of them; or, that any thing of importance unto his advantage by himself insisted on, is here omitted. He that runs and reads, if he ⟨p. 39⟩observe any thing that lies before him, besides handsome words, and ingenious diversions, will consent, that here lies the substance of what is offered unto him. I shall not need then to tire the Reader, and my self, with transcriptions of those many words from the several parts of his Discourse, wherein these Principles are laid down and insinuated, or gilded over, as things on all hands granted. Besides, so far as they are interwoven with other reasonings, they will fall again under our Consideration in the several places where they are used and improved. If all these Principles upon examination be found good, true, firm, and stable; it is most meet and reasonable that our Author should obtain his desire: And if, on the other side, they shall appear, some of them false, some impertinent, and the deductions from them Sophistical, some of them destructive to Christian Religion in general; none of them singly, nor all of them together able to bear the least part of that weight which is laid upon them, I suppose, he cannot take it ill, if we resolve to be contented with our present condition, until some better way of