A53737:557
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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for to tell you the truth, excluding divine Institution which you have not, other I can think or none▪ And if you could pretend Divine Institution constituting a sacred relation, between Images and their prototypes, yet it would not presently follow, that they were to be worshipped, no not supposing the Prototypes themselves to be the proper objects of religious adoration, which as to the most of them you know we deny, unless you have also a Command to warrant you. For there is […] Institution of God himself a Sacramental […] between the water in Baptism and the […]; and yet I do ⟨p. 523⟩not know that you plead that the water is to be worshipped. And thus is it as to your wooden Cross; you put two sticks a cross and worship them, you take them asunder and burn them; it is the very instance of your Nicene Council, for so they repeat the words of Leontius and approve them, Act. 4. [Greek or Hebrew]; whilst the two sticks of the Cross are put together or compacted, I adore that figure for Christs sake who suffered thereon; but when they are separated, I cast them away and burn them; a pretty course, whereby a man may keep a sacred fire, and worship all his wood pile before he burns it. And all this you are beholding unto your imagination for.
for to tell you the truth, excluding divine Institution which you have not, other I can think or none▪ And if you could pretend Divine Institution constituting a sacred relation, between Images and their prototypes, yet it would not presently follow, that they were to be worshipped, no not supposing the Prototypes themselves to be the proper objects of religious adoration, which as to the most of them you know we deny, unless you have also a Command to warrant you. For there is 〈…〉 Institution of God himself a Sacramental 〈…〉 b••ween the water in Baptism and the 〈…〉; and yet I do ⟨p. 523⟩not know that you plead that the water is to be worshipped. And thus is it as to your wooden Cross; you put two sticks a cross and worship them, you take them asunder and burn them; it is the very instance of your Nicene Council, for so they repeat the words of Leontius and approve them,