A53737:327
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 13
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Your following Discourse pag. 44, 45. is spent partly in the Commendation of your Fiat Lux, and the Metaphysical abstracted & scourses of it; partly in a repetition in other words of what you had before insisted on. The former I shall no further endeavour to disturb your contentment in. It is a common error —Neque est quisquam Quem non in aliquare videre Suffenum Possis. I am not your Rival in the admiration of it, and shall therefore leave you quietly in the embracements of your Darling. And for the latter, we have had enough of it already, and so by this time I hope you think also. The close only of your Discourse is considerable, and therefore I shall transcribe it for your second thoughts. And it is this,
YOur following Discourse pag. 44, 45. is spent partly in the Commendation of your Fiat Lux, and the Metaphysical abstracted & scourses of it; partly in a repetition in other words of what you had before insisted on. The former I shall no further endeavour to disturb your contentment in. It is a common error —Neque est quisquam Quem non in aliquare videre Suffenum Possis. I am not your Rivall in the admiration of it, and shall therefore leave you quietly in the embracements of your Darling. And for the latter, we have had enough of it already, and so by this time I hope you think also. The close only of your Discourse is considerable, and therefore I shall transcribe it for your second thoughts. And it is this,
But Sir what you say here, and so often up and down your book of Papists contempt of the Scripture, I beseech you will please to abstain from it for the time to come. I have conversed with the Roman Catholics of France, ••anders and Germany; I have read more of your Books both Histories, Contemplative and Scholastical Divines▪ th•n I believe you have ever seen or heard of. I have seen the Colleges of Sacred Priests and Religious houses, I have communed with all sort of people and perused their Councils. And after all this I tell you, and out of my love I tell you that their respect to Scripture is ⟨p. 352⟩