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,…

There is the same respect, in that bitter reflection which he makes on those, who have managed differences in Religion in this last Age, the Third thing observable. That they are the Writers, and Writings that have been published against the Papacy which he intends; he doth more than intimate. Their Disputes, he rells us, are managed with so much unseemly behaviour, such unmannerly expressions, that discreet sobriety cannot but loath, and abhor to read them; with very much more to this purpose. I shall not much labour to persuade men not to believe what he says in this matter; for I know full well, that he believes it not himself. He hath seen too many Protestant Books, I suppose, to think this Cen••re will suit them all. This was ⟨p. 124⟩meet to be spoken, for the advantage of the Catholic cause: for what there hath been of real offence in this kind amongst us, we may say, Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra; Romanists are Sinners as well as others: And I suppose himself knows. That the Reviling, and Defamations used by some of his Party, are not to be paralleled in any Writings of man-kind at this day extant.

There is the same respect, in that bitter reflection which he makes on those, who have managed differences in Religion in this last Age, the Third thing observable. That they are the Writers, and Writings that have been published against the Papacy which he intends; he doth more than intimate. Their Disputes, he rells us, are managed with so much unseemly behaviour, such unmanerly expressions, that discreet sobriety cannot but loath, and abhor to read them; with very much more to this purpose. I shall not much labour to perswade men not to believe what he sayes in this matter; for I know full well, that he believes it not himself. He hath seen too many Protestant Books, I suppose, to think this Cen••re will suit them all. This was ⟨p. 124⟩meet to be spoken, for the advantage of the Catholick cause: for what there hath been of real offence in this kind amongst us, we may say, Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra; Romanists are Sinners as well as others: And I suppose himself knows. That the Reviling, and Defamations used by some of his Party, are not to be paralleld in any Writings of man-kind at this day extant.