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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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Knowing, therefore, our Author's design, (and which we shall have occasion to deal with him about, throughout his Treatise) which is to take advantage from ⟨p. 115⟩the late miscarriages amongst us, and the differences that are in the world in Religion, to persuade men not indeed and ultimately to mutual moderation and forbearance, but to a general acquiescence in the Roman-Catholicism, I shall not here further speak unto it. The five Heads of his matter may be briefly run over as he proposeth▪ them, pag. 13. with whose consideration I shall take my leave of his Preface.
Knowing, therefore, our Author's design, (and which we shall have occasion to deal with him about, throughout his Treatise) which is to take advantage from ⟨p. 115⟩the late miscarriages amongst us, and the differences that are in the world in Religion, to perswade men not indeed and ultimately to mutual moderation and forbearance, but to a general acquiescency in the Roman-Catholicism, I shall not here further speak unto it. The five Heads of his matter may be briefly run over as he proposeth▪ them, pag. 13. with whose consideration I shall take my leave of his Preface.
The first is, That there is not any colour of Reason, or just Title, to move us to quarrel and judge one another, with so much heat about Religion ▪ Indeed there is not; nor can there be: no man was ever so mad as to suppose there could be any reason or just Title for men to do evil; To quarrel and judge one another with heats about Religion, is of that nature. But, if, placing himself, to keep a decorum, amongst▪ Protestants, he would insinuate, that we have no reason to contend about Religion, as having lost all Title unto it by our departure from Rome, I must take leave unto this general head, to put in a general Demurrer; which I shall afterwards plead to, and vindicate.