A53737:435
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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2. When, and wherever such Letters and Epistles as proclaimed their Privileges have been admitted through the inadvertency of Modesty of them to whom they were sent, unwilling to quarrel with them about the good opinion which they had of themselves (which kind of entertainment they yet sometimes met not withal) the next successors always took for granted, and pleaded what their predecessors had presumptuously broached, as that which of right and unquestionably belonged unto them. And this they made sure of, that they would never lose any ground, or take any one step backwards from what any of them had advanced unto.
2. When, and wherever such Letters and Epistles as proclaimed their Priviledges have been admitted through the inadvertency of Modesty of them to whom they were sent, unwilling to quarrel with them about the good opinion which they had of themselves (which kind of entertainment they yet sometimes met not withall) the next successors allwayes took for granted, and pleaded what their predecessours had presumptuously broached, as that which of right and unquestionably belonged unto them. And this they made sure of, that they would never lose any ground, or take any one step backwards from what any of them had advanced unto.
3. Wherever they heard of any difference among Bishops, they were still imposing their Umpirage upon them, which commonly by the one or other of the parties at variance, to balance thereby some disadvantages, that they had to wrestle withal, was admitted; ⟨p. 443⟩yea sometimes they would begin to take part with them that were openly in the wrong, even Heretics themselves, that they might thereby procure an address to them from others, which afterwards they would interpret as an express of their subjection. And wherever their Umpirage was admitted, they were never wanting to improve their own interest by it, like the old Romans who being chosen to determine a Controversy between other People about some lands, adjudged them unto themselves.
3. Wherever they heard of any difference among Bishops, they were still imposing their Vmpirage upon them, which commonly by the one or other of the parties at variance, to ballance thereby some disadvantages, that they had to wrestle withall, was admitted;