A53737:532
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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3. You may do well to consider the practice and usage of your Catholic people all the world over, especially in those places where you have preserved them from being disturbed in their Devotion, by the Arguments and exceptions of Protestants, as also the direction that is given them for the exercise of their Devotion in that prescription of Rites and prayers which is afforded unto them. Is not your bowing, kneeling, creeping, kissing, offering, singing, praying to the Cross and images notorious? yea your placing your trust and confidence in them; Yea, have you omitted any of the abominations of the heathen, that you have not acted over again to provoke the Lord to anger? And
3. You may do well to consider the practice and usage of your Catholick people all the world over, especially in those places where you have preserved them from being disturbed in their Devotion, by the Arguments and exceptions of Protestants, as also the direction that is given them for the exercise of their Devotion in that prescription of Rites and prayers which is afforded unto them. Is not your bowing, kneeling, creeping, kissing, offering, singing, praying to the Cross and images notorious? yea your placing your trust and confidence in them; Yea, have you omitted any of the abominations of the heathen, that you have not acted over again to provoke the Lord to anger? And
4. Do you think to relieve them from the guilt of Idolatry by a company of distinctions, which neither they nor you understand? The next time you see one of your Catholics worshipping an image upon his knees, I pray go to him and tell him that he must worship the Image with dulia, or superdulia, but not with latria, or if with latria, yet not by its self and simply but after a sort, analogically and reductively, or that he is about a double worship; ⟨p. 499⟩one terminated in the image, and the other passing by it unto the exemplar of it, and you will find what thanks he will give you for your good instruction. And how small a portion are these of that Mass of distinctions which you have coined to free them from Idolatry who worship Images, who all the while understand not one word of what you intend by them, nor can any rational man reduce them unto any thing intelligible!