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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 18
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Reformation of Religion. Papal contradictions. Ejice ancillam.
Some of your following leaves are such as admit of no useful consideration. Wilful mistakes, diversions from the Cause under debate, with vain flourishes make up both pages in them. I shall pass through them briefly, and give you some account from them of your self, and your prevarication in the Cause whose defence you have undertaken. Pag. 75. you undertake the thirteenth chapter of ⟨p. 448⟩the Animadversions, which discusseth the Story of the Reformation of Religion, which you took up on common fame. Fama malum quo non aliud velocius ullum. And that you may be able to say somewhat to the discourse before you, or to make a pretence of doing so, you wholly pass by every thing that is contained in it, and impose upon me that which is not in it at all, which you strenuously exagitate. For whereas a little to take off your edge in reflecting on the Persons whom you supposed instrumental in the Reformation, especially King Henry the eighth, I minded you how easy a thing it was to deprive you of your pretended Advantage, by giving you an account o• the wicked lives, with the brutish and Diabolical practices of many of your Popes whom you account the Heads of your Church, and the very Centre wherein all the lines of your Profession meet, you feign as though I had imposed all the crimes I intimated them to be guilty of, and many more whose names you •eap together, upon Popery, or the Religion that you profess; yea that I should say that it is nothing else but only an heap of the wickcon•sses by you enumerated. Now this I did not do, but you feign it of your own heads, that you may have somewhat to speak against, and a pretence of intimating in the close of your discourse, that you have considered the Chapter about Reformation, whereas in truth you have not spoken one word unto it, nor unto any thing contained in it. And yet when you have done, as if you had been talking about any thing wherein I am in the least measure concerned, you come in, in the close with your grave advice, That I should take heed of blaspheming that