A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

It believed, that all Image-worship was forbidden, Exod. 20. And whether you abide in the same persuasion, we shall afterwards examine. And many more instances of the like kind, you may at any time be minded of.

It believed, that all Image-worship was forbidden, Exod. 20. And whether you abide in the same perswasion, we shall afterwards examine. And many more instances of the like kind, you may at any time be minded of.

You hast to that you would fain be at, which will be found as little to your purpose, as those whose consideration you so carefully avoid. You say, Did she fall by Heresy in adhering to any error in Faith, contrary to the approved doctrine of the Church? Here you smile seriously, and tell me, that, since I take the Roman and Catholic Church to be one, she could not indeed adhere to any thing, but what she did adhere unto. Sir, I take them indeed to be one: but here I speak ad hominem, to one that doth not take them so. And then, if indeed the Roman Church had ever swerved in faith, as you say she has, and be her self as another ordinary particular Church, as you say she is, them might you find some one or other more general Church, if any there were, to judge her; some Ecumenical Council to condemn her; some Fathers, either Greek and Latin, expressly to writs against her, as Protestants now do; some or other grave Authority to censure her; or at least some company of Believers, out of whose body she went, and from whose faith she fell. None of which, since you are not able to a assign, (wherein you have spoken more rightly, than you were aware of; for, not to be able to assign none of them, infers at least an ability to assign some, if not all of ⟨p. 66⟩them) my Query remains unanswered, and the Roman still as flourishing a Church as ever she was.

You hast to that you would fain be at, which will be found as little to your purpose, as those whose consideration you so carefully avoid. You say, Did she fall by Heresie in adhering to any errour in Faith, contrary to the approved doctrine of the Church? Here you smile seriously, and tell me, that, since I take the Roman and Catholick Church to be one, she could not indeed adhere to any thing, but what she did adhere unto. Sr, I take them indeed to be one: but here I speak ad hominem, to one that doth not take them so. And then, if indeed the Roman Church had ever swerved in faith, as you say she has, and be her self as another ordinary particular Church, as you say she is, them might you find some one or other more generall Church, if any there were, to judge her; some Oecumenicall Councell to condemn her; some Fathers, either Greek and Latin, expresly to writs against her, as Protestants now do; some or other grave Authority to censure her; or at least some company of Believers, out of whose body she went, and from whose faith she fell. None of which, since you are not able to a assign, (wherein you have spoken more rightly, than you were aware of; for, not to be able to assign none of them, infers at least an ability to assign some, if not all of