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A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux
A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux wherein the principles of the Roman church, as to moderation, unity and truth are examined and sundry important controversies concerning the rule of faith, papal supremacy, the mass, images, &c. discussed / by John Owen.
London: printed for Ph. Stephens, 1664
A Vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat Lux. › Chapter 8
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And if you are able by so many uncertainties and untruths to bring men unto a Certainty and Settlement in the Truth, you need not despair of compassing and thing, that you shall have a mind to attempt.
And if you are able by so many uncertainties and untruths to bring men unto a Certainty and Scttlement in the Truth, you need not despair of compassing and thing, that you shall have a mind to attempt.
But you have yet another Plea which you make no less use of than of the former▪ which must therefore be also, (now you have engaged us in this work,) a little examined: This is the Church, its Authority and Infallibility. The truth is, when you come to ⟨p. 187⟩make a practical Application of this Plea unto your own use, you resolve it into, and confound it with that foregoing of the Pope, in whom solely many of you would have this Authority and Infallibility of the Church to reside. Yet because in your management of it, you proceed on other Principles than those before mentioned, this pretence also shall be apart considered. And here you tell us,
But you have yet another Plea which you make no less use of than of the former▪ which must therefore be also, (now you have engaged us in this work,) a little examined: This is the Church, its Authority and Infallibil•ty. The truth is, when you come to ⟨p. 187⟩make a practical Application of this Plea unto your own use, you resolve it into, and confound it with that foregoing of the Pope, in whom solely many of you would have this Authority and Infallibility of the Church to reside. Yet because in your mannagement of it, you proceed on other Principles than those before mentioned, this pretence also shall be apart considered. And here you tell us,