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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 21
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And now Sir as I said you may begin to see what you have to do, if you intend to speak any thing to the purpose concerning your figures and Images. You must take the Decree of your Council of Trent, and the Nicene Canons therein confirmed, and ⟨p. 496⟩prove, confirm, and vindicate them from the opposition made to them by Tertullian, Arnobius, Origen, Lactantius, the Synod of Frankfurt and others of the Ancients innumerable by whom they are rejected and condemned; and yet when you have done so, if you are able so to do, your work is not one quarter at an end. You can make nothing of this business until you have confuted or burned the Scripture it self, wherein your Images making and Image worship is as fully condemned as it is possible any superstition or Idolatry should be. Your present loose discourses, whereby you endeavour to possess the minds of unwary men, that you do not do that which indeed you do every day, and which almost all the world know that you do, and which you curse others for not doing, will not with considering persons redound at all unto your advantage.
And now Sir as I said you may begin to see what you have to do, if you intend to speak any thing to the purpose concerning your figures and Images. You must take the Decree of your Council of Trent, and the Nicene Canons therein confirmed, and ⟨p. 496⟩prove, confirm, and vindicate them from the opposition made to them by Tertullian, Arnobius, Origen, Lactantius, the Synod of Franckeford and others of the Antients innumerable by whom they are rejected and condemned; and yet when you have done so, if you are able so to do, your work is not one quarter at an end. You can make nothing of this business untill you have confuted or burned the Scripture it self, wherein your Images making and Image worship is as fully condemned as it is possible any superstition or Idolatry should be. Your present loose discourses, whereby you endeavour to possess the minds of unwary men, that you do not do that which indeed you do every day, and which almost all the world know that you do, and which you curse others for not doing, will not with considering persons redound at all unto your advantage.