A53737:433
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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The Artifices I confess of your Popes in former days to draw men, especially in the Eastern Church to an acknowledgement of that Authority, which in their several seasons they claimed, have been ⟨p. 442⟩many, and their success various. Sometimes they obtained a seeming compliance in some; and sometimes they procured their Authors very shrewd rebukes. It may not be amiss to recount some of them.
The Artifices I confess of your Popes in former dayes to draw men, especially in the Eastern Church to an acknowledgement of that Authority, which in their several seasons they claimed, have been ⟨p. 442⟩many, and their success various. Sometimes they obtained a seeming compliance in some; and sometimes they procured their Authors very shrewd rebukes. It may not be amiss to recount some of them.
1. Upon all occasions they set forth themselves; the dignity and preeminence of your See, with swelling Encomiums and Titles, asserting their own Primacy and Power. Such self assumings are many of the old Papal Epistles stuffed withal. A sober humble Christian cannot but nauseate at the reading of them. For it is easily discernible how Antievangelical such Courses are, and how unbecoming all that pretend themselves to be Disciples of Jesus Christ; from these are their chiefest Testimonies in this Case taken; and we may say of them all, they bear witness to themselves, and that contrary to the Scripture, and their witness is not true.
1. Upon all occasions they set forth themselves; the dignity and preheminence of your See, with swelling Encomiums and Titles, asserting their own Primacy and Power. Such self assumings are many of the old Papal Epistles stuffed withall. A sober humble Christian cannot but nauseate at the reading of them. For it is easily discernable how Antievangelical such Courses are, and how unbecoming all that pretend themselves to be Disciples of Jesus Christ; from these are their chiefest Testimonies in this Case taken; and we may say of them all, they bear witness to themselves, and that contrary to the Scripture, and their witness is not true.