A53737:426
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 17
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But an odd chance, you say, it was that they should think of advancing him to what they never heard either himself or any other advanced unto before among Christians: but yet this was done, and no such odd chance neither. Your Popes had for a season before been aspiring to greater heights then formerly they had attained unto, and used all ways possible to commend themselves and their Authority, not what truly it was, but what they would have it to be, unto all with whom they had to do; and thereupon ⟨p. 436⟩by sundry means and artifices imposed upon the nations some undue conceits of it, though it was not fully nor so easily admitted of as it may be you may imagine. But in many things they were willing to gratify him in his pretensions, little knowing the tendency of them; many things he took the advantage of their straits and divisions to impose upon them; many things he obtained from them by flattery and carnal compliances, until by sundry serpentine advances he had brought them all unto his bow, and some of the greatest of them to his stirrup.
But an odd chance, you say, it was that they should think of advancing him to what they never heard either himself or any other advanced unto before among Christians: but yet this was done, and no such odd chance neither. Your Popes had for a season before been aspiring to greater heights then formerly they had attained unto, and used all wayes possible to commend themselves and their Authority, not what truly it was, but what they would have it to be, unto all with whom they had to do; and thereupon ⟨p. 436⟩by sundry means and artifices imposed upon the nations some undue conceits of it, though it was not fully nor so easily admitted of as it may be you may imagine. But in many things they were willing to gratifie him in his pretensions, little knowing the tendency of them; many things he took the advantage of their streights and divisions to impose upon them; many things he obtained from them by flattery and carnal compliances, untill by sundry serpentine advances he had brought them all unto his bow, and some of the greatest of them to his stirrup.