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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 14
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Of Reason. Jews objections against Christ.
Pag. 27. You proceed to vindicate your unreasonable Paragraph about Reason, or rather against it. What reason we are to expect in a dispute against the use of Reason in and about the things which are the highest and most proper object of it, is easy for any one to imagine. For by Reason in Religion we understand not merely the Ra•ocination of a man, upon and according to the inbred Principles of his nature, but every acting of the understanding of a man about the things of God, proceeding from such Principles, or guided by any such ⟨p. 363⟩rule, as no way impeach its rationality. To vindicate your discourse in your Fiat upon this subject you make use of two mediums. (1.) You pretend that to be the whole subject of your Discourse about Reason, which is but a part of it: and (2.) You deny that to be the Design and aim of your Book which your self know, and all other men acknowledge so to be.
PAg. 27. You proceed to vindicate your unreasonable Paragraph about Reason, or rather against it. What reason we are to expect in a dispute against the use of Reason in and about the things which are the highest and most proper object of it, is easie for any one to imagine. For by Reason in Religion we understand not meerly the Ra•ocination of a man, upon and according to the inbred Principles of his nature, but every acting of the understanding of a man about the things of God, proceeding from such Principles, or guided by any such ⟨p. 363⟩rule, as no way impeach its rationality. To vindicate your discourse in your Fiat upon this subject you make use of two mediums. (1.) You pretend that to be the whole subject of your Discourse about Reason, which is but a part of it: and (2.) You deny that to be the Design and aime of your Book which your self know, and all other men acknowledge so to be.