Neutrality in Religion, reproved. [ 1770]
THe Bat, like the Woman with the adulterous eye, watcheth for the twi∣light, Prov. 7. 9. such are all Equivocating Hermophrodite Christians, Re∣ligious Neuters, who love the twi-light of Truth better then the noon-light, whose Religion may well-enough be declined with the Article (Hoc) for it is of the Neuter-Gender;* 1.1 Not much unlike him (in Pliny) whose picture was so am∣biguously drawn by Polygnotus Thasius a cunning Painter, that it was doubted, whether he had painted him climbing upward or going downward with his shield; And so slily do these Utrinquetaries carry their shield of Faith (as the Apostle calls it, Ephes. 6.) that it justly may be doubted whether it be to defend us or our adversaries,* 1.2 They have one foot within the gates of Sion, another within the gates of Babylon; one within the Church of England, another within the Church of Rome; one wing to fly to us, another to fly from us upon the least advantage that may be.