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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 11
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Judicious Readers. Schoolmen the forgers of Popery. Nature of the Discourse in Fiat Lux.
Your ensuing Discourses are such as might well be passed by, as containing nothing serious or worth a review. An passim sequerer corvum? Ludicrous Similitudes, with trifling exceptions to some words in the Animadversions, cut off from that coherence wherein they are placed, are the chief ingredients of it. With these you aim with your wonted success to make sport: —Venite in ignem Pleni ruris & insicetiarum Annals Volusi— I wish we had agreed before hand, Ut facerestu quod velles, nec non ego possem, Indulgere mihi. That I might have been freed from the Consideration of such trifles: As the Case stands I shall make my passage through them with what speed I can.
YOur ensuing Discourses are such as might well be passed by, as containing nothing serious or worth a review. An passim sequerer corvum? Ludicrous Similitudes, with trisling exceptions to some words in the Animadversions, cut off from that coherence wherein they are placed, are the chief ingredients of it. With these you aim with your wonted success to make sport: —Venite in ignem Pleni ruris & insicetiarum Annales Volusi— I wish we had agreed before hand, Vt facerestu quod velles, nec non ego possem, Indulgere mihi. That I might have been freed from the Consideration of such trifles: As the Case stands I shall make my passage through them with what speed I can.
First, You except against the Close of the consideration of your Principles, namely that I would do so to my Book also, if I had none to deal with, but ingenuous and judicious Readers. And tell me, that it seems what follows is for Readers neither judicious, nor ingenuous. But why so I pray? That which is written for the information of them who want either ⟨p. 309⟩