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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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CHAP. XXII.
Pope. SECT. 29.
IT is not because the Pope is forgotten all this while, that he is there placed in the rear, after Images, Saints, and Purgatory. It is plain, that he hath been born in mind all along; yea, and so much mentioned, that a man would wonder, how he comes to have a special. Paragraph here allotted to him. The whole book seems to be all-Pope, from the very beginning, as to the main design of it; and now to meet, Pope, by himself again, in the end, is somewhat unexpected. But, I suppose, our Author thinks he can never say enough of him. Therefore lest any thing fit to be insisted on, should have escaped him in his former discourses, he ⟨p. 417⟩hath designed this Section, to gather up the Paralipomena, or ornaments he had forgotten before to set him forth withal. And indeed, if the Pope be the man he talks of in this Section, I must acknowledge he hath had much wrong done him in the world. He is one, it seems, that we are beholding unto for all we have that is worth any thing; particularly for the Gospel which was originally from him; for Kingly Authority, and his Crown land with all the honour and power in the Kingdom; One, that we had not had any thing left us, at this day, either of Truth or Unity, humanely speaking, had not he been set over us. One, in whom Christ hath no less shown his Divinity and Power, than in himself; in whom he is more miraculous, then he was in his own person. One that by the only Authority of his place and person, defended Christ's being God against all the world; without which, humanely speaking, Christ had not been taken for any such person as he is believed this day. So as not only we, but Christ himself is beholding to him, that any body believes him to be God. Now truly, if things stand thus with him, I think it is high time for us to leave our ⟨p. 418⟩