A53737:522
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 21
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1. Some there are, of the first Christians, who give us an account of the whole worship of God with the manner and form of it, which was observed in their Assemblies in their days. So doth Justin Martyr in his Apologies, Tertullian in his, Origen against Celsus with some others. Now in none of these, is there any one word concerning Images, their use, or their worship in the service of God, although they descend to describe very minute particulars and circumstances of their way and proceeding.
1. Some there are, of the first Christians, who give us an account of the whole worship of God with the manner and form of it, which was observed in their Assemblies in their dayes. So doth Justin Martyr in his Apologies, Tertullian in his, Origen against Celsus with some others. Now in none of these, is there any one word concerning Images, their use, or their worship in the service of God, although they descend to describe very minute particulars and circumstances of their way and proceeding.
2. Some there are, who give an account of the persecutions of several Churches, with the out-rages of ⟨p. 491⟩the Pagans against their Assemblies, the Scriptures, all the ordinances and worship, as do those golden fragments of the first and best Antiquity, the Epistles of the Churches of Vienna and Lions, to the parishes of Asia, of the Church of Smyrna about the Martyrdom of Polycarpus, preserved and recorded by Eusebius; and yet make no mention of any figures, pictures, or Images of Christ, the Blessed Virgin or his Apostles, or of any rage of their adversaries against them, or of any spite done unto them, which they would not have omitted, had there been any such in use amongst them.
2. Some there are, who give an account of the persecutious of several Churches, with the out-rages of ⟨p. 491⟩the Pagans against their Assemblies, the Scriptures, all the ordinances and worship, as do those golden fragments of the first and best Antiquity, the Epistles of the Churches of Vienna and Lions, to the parishes of Asia, of the Church of Smyrna about the Martyrdome of Polycarpus, preserved and recorded by Eusebius; and yet make no mention of any figures, pictures, or Images of Christ, the Blessed Virgin or his Apostles, or of any rage of their adversaries against them, or of any spite done unto them, which they would not have omitted, had there been any such in use amongst them.