A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

How you have secured your Logic in this Discourse, shall afterwards be considered; your Divinity ⟨p. 377⟩seems at the first view liable unto just exceptions. For, 1. You suppose Christ in his humane nature only to have been the Head of his Church, and therefore the absence of that, to necessitate the constitution of another. Now this supposition is openly false and dangerous to the whole being of Christianity. It is the Son of God who is the Head of the Church; who as he is man, so also is he over all God blessed for ever: And as God and man in one person, is that Head, and ever was since his incarnation, and ever will be to the end of the world. To deny this is to overthrow the foundation of the Churches faith, preservation and consolation, it being founded and built on this, that he was the Son of the living God, Matth. 16. and yet into this supposition alone, is your imaginary necessity of the Substitution of another Head in his room resolved. 2. You plainly confess that the present Church hath not the same head, that the Church had when our Lord Christ conversed with them in the days of his flesh. That, you say, was his humane nature delegate under God, which being now removed and separate, another Person so delegate under God, is substituted in his place. Which not only deprives the Church of its first Head, but also deposeth the humane nature of Christ from that office of headship to his Church, which you confess that for a while it enjoyed: leaving him nothing but what belongs unto him as God, wherein alone you will allow him to be that unto his Church which formerly he was: Confessing I say, the humane nature of Christ to have been the head of the Church, and now denying it so to be, you do what lies in you to depose him from his Office and Throne, allowing his humane nature as far as I can perceive to be of little other use then ⟨p. 378⟩to be eaten by you in the Mass. 3. You make your intention yet more evident, by intimating that the Humane Nature of Christ is now no more Head of the Church, then the present Church is made up of the same numerical members, that it was constituted of in the days of his flesh. What change you suppose in the Church the body, the same you suppose and assert in the head thereof. And as that change excludes those former members from being present members: so this excludes the former Head from being the present Head.