A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

And if you should chance to be convinced of any Truth in particular that is contrary to the determination of your Church, you know not how to embrace it, but must shut your eyes against its light and evidence, and cast it out of your minds, or wander up and down with a various assent between Contradictions. Well said he of old [Greek or Hebrew] [Greek or Hebrew]. This is flat folly, namely for a man to live in rebellion unto his own light: But you add,

And if you should chance to be convinced of any Truth in particular that is contrary to the determination of your Church, you know not how to embrace it, but must shut your eyes against its light and evidence, and cast it out of your minds, or wander up and down with a various assent between Contradictions. Well said he of old 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. This is flat folly, namely for a man to live in rebellion unto his own light: But you adde,

III. That your selves, that is, the Pope with those who in matters of Religion adhere unto him, and live in subjection unto him, are this Church; in an assent unto whose infallible teachings and Determinations, the Unity of Faith doth consist. Could you prove this Assertion I confess it would stand you in good stead. But before we enquire after that, we shall endeavour a little to come unto a right understanding of what you say. ⟨p. 195⟩When you affirm t•at the Roman Church, is the Church of Christ, you intend either that it is the only Church of Christ, all the Church of Christ, and so consequently the Catholic Church; or you mean that it is a Church of Christ, which hath an especial Prerogative enabling it to require obedience of all the Disciples of Christ. If you say the former, we desire to know (1.) when it became so to be. It was not so when all the Church was together at Hierus•lem, and no foundation of any Church at all laid at Rome,