A53737:554
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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Christ is the brightness of the Glory of God, God shows us his face in him, therefore we ought to make Images of wood and stone, caved and painted, and set them up in Churches to be adored, [Greek or Hebrew]. And hereby you may also discern what is to be judged of your defence of what you had affirmed in your Fiat, namely that we had a command, that we should have Images, and a command that we should not have Images; which I never imagined that you would put upon a various section of the Text, and thought it sufficient to manifest your failing, to intimate unto you the express preciseness of the prohibition, with which your fancied command for Images is wholly inconsistent. God hath strictly forbidden us to make any Image either of himself or of any other person or thing to adore ⟨p. 520⟩or worship it, or to put it unto any use purely religious. This is an everlasting Rule of our Obedience. His own making of Cherubims and placing them in the most holy place whilst the Judaical Economy continued gives us no dispensation as to the obedience which we owe to that Command and rule, whereby we must be judged at the last day.
Christ is the brightness of the Glory of God, God shews us his face in him, therefore we ought to make Images of wood and stone, caved and painted, and set them up in Churches to be adored, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. And hereby you may also discern what is to be judged of your defence of what you had affirmed in your Fiat, namely that we had a command, that we should have Images, and a command that we should not have Images; which I never imagined that you would put upon a various •ection of the Text, and thought it sufficient to manifest your failing, to intimate unto you the express preciseness of the prohibition, with which your fancied command for Images is wholly inconsistent. God hath strictly forbidden us to make any Image either of himself or of any other person or thing to adore ⟨p. 520⟩or worship it, or to put it unto any use purely religious. This is an everlasting Rule of our Obedience. His own making of Cherubims and placing them in the most holy place whilest the Judaical Oeconomy continued gives us no dispensation as to the obedience which we owe to that Command and rule, whereby we must be judged at the last day.