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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 19
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How empty and vain this Discourse of yours is, wherein you seem greatly to triumph, will quickly be discovered. And you are a merry man if you think by such arguments as these to persuade us that the Apostles Sacrificed to God according to the rite of your Mass, as though we did not know by whom the chief parts of it, particularly those wherein you place your Sacrifice, were invented many hundreds of years after they fell asleep. 1. You say they were [Greek or Hebrew], Sacrificing to our great Lord God, as though it were God the Father, or God absolutely that is intended in that expression [Greek or Hebrew] to the Lord. [Greek or Hebrew] the Lord is Sir peculiarly denotative of the Person of the Mediator, Jesus Christ, God and Man, according to that Rule given us •y the Apostle; 1 Cor. 8. 6. To us there is one God the Father, [Greek or Hebrew] and one Lord Jesus Christ. And this is the constant denotation of the word, wh•• used absolutely as here it is, throughout the wh••• New Testament. To Christ the Mediator were […] Churches ministering, Act. 13. That is in his na••• and Authority, according to his appointment, and unto his service. And this one observation suffice ently discovers the vanity of your Argument: for you will not say that they offered Sacrifice to the Lord Christ emphatically and reduplicatively, seeing if you may be believed it is he whom they offered in Sacrifice. Of such force is the Sophism wherein you boast. And (2.) You wisely observe that Paul by the imposition of hands there mentioned was segregated from the Layity, whereas he tells you, that ⟨p. 466⟩he was an Apostle, (wherein certainly he was segregated from the Layity) neither of men, nor by men, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, Gal. 1. 1. that is, there was no intimation or interposition of the Ministry or Authority of any man in his call to that office, which he had for sundry years exercised before this his peculiar separation to the work of preaching anew to the Gentiles. So well are you skilled in the sense of that Apostolical Book. 3.