A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

For this, say you, concerns not any affair between neighbour and neighbour, whereof the Supreme Lord hath absolute dominion, but the service only and ••ration due from man to his Maker, which God being absolutely good, and immutably true, cannot […] dispense with. Nor doth it stand with his nature and Deity to change, dispense, or vary the first table of his Law concerning himself, as he may the […] which concerns neighbours, for want of that […] ever himself, which h• hath over any crea••• […] away its right, to preserve or destroy it, […] pleaseth; and therefore you conclude that […] his people to set up no Images, […] h•ve commanded them to set up any; be••• […] would imply a contradiction in himself. A very […] Theological discourse, which might bec••• one of the Angelical or Seraphical Doctors of your Church! But who I pray told you that the•e was the same reason of all the Commands of the […] Table? Vows and Oaths are a part of the worship of God […] in the third Commandment yet […] God can do, your Pope takes upon himself […] dispense with them every day. He so dispe••ed with the Oath of Ladis•aus King of Hunger•• made in his Peace with the Turks, to the ⟨p. 515⟩extreme danger of his whole Kingdom, the irreparable loss and almost ruin of all Christendom. So he dispensed with the Oath of Henry the Second of France, which ended in his expulsion out of Italy, his loss of the famous Battle at St. Quintins, and the danger of his whole Kingdom. The strict Observation of the Sabbath by the Jews was commanded unto them in a Precept of the first Table, and w•s not a matter between neighbours, but belonged immediately to the worship of God himself: according to your Divinity, God could not dispense with them to do any labour that day: But our Lord Jesus Christ hath taught us that by his Command the Priests were to labour on that day in killing the Sacrifice, by virtue of an after exception. And your Book of Maccabees will inform you that the whole people judged themselves dispensed withal in case of imminent danger. The whole fabric of Mosaical worship was a thing that belonged immediately to God himself, and was not a matter between neighbours, which had its foundation in the second Commandment: and yet I suppose you will grant that God hath altered it, changed it, and taken it away.