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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 1
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Do they not rather intimate a desire of the use of moderation in these our contests, and an abstinence from things personal, (for which cause also (fruitlessly as I now perceive, by this your new kind of ingenuity and moderation) I prefixed not my Name to the Animadversions, which you also take notice of) than any evil intention or design. This was my threatening you; to which now I shall add, that though I may not say of these Papers, what Catullus ⟨p. 21⟩did of his Verses on Rufus, Verum id non impunè feceres, nam te omnia secla Noscent, & qui sis fama loquitur anus. Yet I shall say, that as many as take notice of this discourse, will do no less of your disingenuity and manifold falsehood, in your vain attempt to relieve your dying Cause, by casting odium upon him with whom you have to do; like the Bonassus that Aristotle informs us of Hist. Animal lib. 9. cap. 24. which being as big as a Bull, but having horns turned inward and unuseful for fight, when he is pursued, casts out his excrements to defile his pursuers, and to stay them in their passage.
Do they not rather intimate a desire of the use of moderation in these our contests, and an abstinence from things personall, (for which cause also (fruitlesly as I now perceive, by this your new kind of ingenuity and moderation) I prefixed not my Name to the Animadversions, which you also take notice of) than any evil intention or design. This was my threatning you; to which now I shall adde, that though I may not say of these Papers, what Catullus ⟨p. 21⟩did of his Verses on Rufus, Verum id non impunè feceres, nam te omnia secla Noscent, & qui sis fama loquitur anus. Yet I shall say, that as many as take notice of this discourse, will do no less of your disingenuity and manifold falshood, in your vain attempt to relieve your dying Cause, by casting odium upon him with whom you have to do; like the Bonassus that Aristotle informs us of Hist. Animal lib. 9. cap. 24. which being as big as a Bull, but having horns turned inward and unusefull for fight, when he is persued, casts out his excrements to defile his persuers, and to stay them in their passage.