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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 22
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1. 7. and to the Church of God that was at Corinth sanctified in Christ Jesus, 1 Cor. 1. 2. with all that everywhere call on his name. And why I pray may not the Churches of these days be concerned to know the things that the Spirit of God thought meet to instruct the former Churches in? Are Believers now grown unconcerned in the Doctrine in the law and Gospel, of Sin and Grace, of Justification, Sanctification, Adoption, the Obedience of Faith, and duties of Holiness, which S. Paul reveals and declares in his Epistles? What would you make of them? or what would you make of the Apostle to write things for the standing use of the Church, wherein so few were like to be concerned? Or do you think that there are but few things in the Scripture wherein the souls of the people are concerned, and that all the rest are left for learned men to dispute and wrangle about?
1. 7. and to the Church of God that was at Corinth sanctified in Christ Jesus, 1 Cor. 1. 2. with all that everywhere call on his name. And why I pray may not the Churches of these dayes be concerned to know the things that the Spirit of God thought meet to instruct the former Churches in? Are Believers now grown unconcerned in the Doctrine in the law and Gospel, of Sin and Grace, of Justification, Sanctification, Adoption, the Obedience of Faith, and duties of Holiness, which S. Paul reveals and declares in his Epistles? What would you make of them? or what would you make of the Apostle to write things for the standing use of the Church, wherein so few were like to be concerned? Or do you think that there are but few things in the Scripture wherein the souls of the people are concerned, and that all the rest are left for learned men to dispute and wrangle about?
But you say, there are particular Cases in them, that belonged it may be only to them unto whom their resolution was directed. But are you such a stranger in the Israel of the Church, as not to know that in the same Cases, or others of a very near alliance unto them determinable by the Apostolical Rules delivered in them, the Consciences of your vulgar people are still concerned? 4. Those Epistles of Paul wherein you instance, were written by divine Inspiration, and given out by the direction of the Holy Ghost for the use of the Church of God in all Ages; This I suppose you will not deny. If so, why do you set up your