A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Some boast themselves to learn their Divinity from the Fathers, and say they depart not from their sense and idiom of expression in what they believe and profess: But we find by experience, that what for want of wisdom and judgement in themselves, what for such reasons taken from the writings which they make their Oracles, which I shall not insist upon, much of the Divinity of some of these men consists in that, which to avoid provocation I shall not express. Whilst men are thus preing aged, it will be very hard to prevail with them to think, that the greatest part of their Divinity, is such, that Christian Religion, either as to the matter, or at least as to that mode wherein alone they have imbibed it, is little or not at all concerned in; nor will it be easy to persuade them that it is a Mystery laid up in the Scripture; and all true Divinity a Wisdom in the Knowledge of that Mystery; and skill to live unto God accordingly; without which as I said before, we shall have no Peace or agreement in this world. Nobis curiositate opus non est post Jesum Christum, nec inquisitione post Evangelium, says Tertullian. Curiosity after the Doctrine of Christ, and Philosophical inquisitions (in Religion) after the Gospel belongs not unto us. As we are

Some boast themselves to learn their Divinity from the Fathers, and say they depart not from their sense and idiome of expression in what they beleive and profess: But we find by experience, that what for want of wisedom and judgement in themselves, what for such reasons taken from the writings which they make their Oracles, which I shall not insist upon, much of the Divinity of some of these men consists in that, which to avoid provocation I shall not express. Whilest men are thus preing aged, it will be very hard to prevail with them to think, that the greatest part of their Divinity, is such, that Christian Religion, either as to the matter, or at least as to that mode wherein alone they have imbibed it, is little or not at all concerned in; nor will it be easie to perswade them that it is a Mystery layed up in the Scripture; and all true Divinity a Wisedom in the Knowledg of that Mystery; and skill to live unto God accordingly; without which as I said before, we shall have no Peace or agreement in this world. Nobis curiositate opus non est post Jesum Christum, nec inquisitione post Evangelium, sayes Tertullian. Curiosity after the Doctrine of Christ, and Philosophicall inquisitions (in Religion) after the Gospel belongs not unto us. As we are