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,…

The declaration made in the days of that King, that he was Head of the Church of England, intended no more, but that there was no other person in the world, from whom any Jurisdiction to be exercised in this Church over his Subjects might be derived, the Supreme Authority for all exterior Government being vested in him alone▪ That this should be so, the Word of God, the nature of the Kingly Office, and the ancient Laws of this Realm, do require. And I challenge our Author to produce any one Testimony of Scripture, or any one word out of any general ⟨p. 272⟩Council, or any one Catholic Father or Writer, to give the least countenance to his assertion of two heads of the Church in his sense; an head of Influence, which is Jesus himself; and an head of Government, which is the Pope, in whom all the sacred Hierarchy ends; This taking of one half of Christs Rule, and Headship out of his hand, and giving it to the Pope, will not be salved, by that expression thrust in by the way, under him; For the Headship of influence is distinctly ascribed unto Christ; and that of Government to the Pope; which evidently asserts, that he is not in the same manner, head unto his Church in both these senses, but He in one, and the Pope in another.

The declaration made in the days of that King, that he was Head of the Church of England, intended no more, but that there was no other person in the world, from whom any Jurisdiction to be exercised in this Church over his Subjects might be derived, the Supreme Authority for all exterior Government being vested in him alone▪ That this should be so, the Word of God, the nature of the Kingly Office, and the ant•ent Laws of this Realm, do require. And I challenge our Author to produce any one Testimony of Scripture, or any one word out of any general ⟨p. 272⟩Council, or any one Catholick Father or Writer, to give the least countenance to his assertion of two heads of the Church in his sense; an head of Influence, which is Jesus himself; and an head of Government, which is the Pope, in whom all the sacred Hierarchy ends; This taking of one half of Christs Rule, and Headship out of his hand, and giving it to the Pope, will not be salved, by that expression thrust in by the way, under him; For the Headship of influence is distinctly ascribed unto Christ; and that of Government to the Pope; which evidently asserts, that he is not in the same manner, head unto his Church in both these senses, but He in one, and the Pope in another.