A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

yet a precise meaning in all her proposals your Church must have, o• she hath none at all. What shall a man do when he comes unto one of your great Masters to be acquainted with the genuine sense of one of your Churches Proposals, this being the way that he takes for his satisfaction. First he speaks unto the Article or Question to be considered in General; then gives the different senses of it according to these and those famous Masters, the most of which he confutes; who yet all of them professed themselves to explain, and to speak according to the sense of your Church; and lastly gives his own interpretation of it, which it may be within a few months, is confuted by another. 3. Suppose a man have attained a knowledge of all that your Church hath determined and proposed to be believed, and to a right understanding of her precise sense and meaning in all her determinations and proposals, which I believe never yet man attained unto, yet what assurance can he have if he live in any place remote from Rome, but that your Church may have made some new Determinations in matters of faith, whose embracement in the sense which she intends belongs unto his keeping the Unity of Faith, which yet he is not acquainted withal. Is it not simply impossible for him to be satisfied at any time that he believes all that is to be believed, or that he holds the Unity of Faith? Your late Pontific all Determination in the Case of the Jansenists and Molinists, is sufficient to illustrate this instance. For I suppose you are equally bound, not to believe what your ⟨p. 125⟩Church condemneth as Heretical, as you are bound to believe what it proposeth for Catholic Doctrine.

yet a precise meaning in all her proposals your Church must have, o• she hath none at all. What shall a man do when he comes unto one of your great Masters to be acquainted with the genuine sense of one of your Churches Proposals, this being the way that he takes for his satisfaction. First he speaks unto the Article or Question to be considered in Generall; then gives the different senses of it according to these and those famous Masters, the most of which he confutes; who yet all of them professed themselves to explain, and to speak according to the sense of your Church; and lastly gives his own interpretation of it, which it may be within a few moneths, is confuted by another. 3. Suppose a man have attained a knowledge of all that your Church hath determined and proposed to be believed, and to a right understanding of her precise sense and meaning in all her determinations and proposals, which I believe never yet man attained unto, yet what assurance can he have if he live in any place remote from Rome, but that your Church may have made some new Determinations in matters of faith, whose embracement in the sense which she intends belongs unto his keeping the Unity of Faith, which yet he is not acquainted withall. Is it not simply impossible for him to be satisfied at any time that he believes all that is to be believed, or that he holds the Vnity of Faith? Your late Pontific all Determination in the Case of the Jansenists and Molinists, is sufficient to illustrate this instance. For I suppose you are equally bound, not to believe what your