A53737:71
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 3
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IN the same page, you proceed to the consideration of my second Chapter; and therein of the Principles which I gathered out of your Fiat Lux; and which I affirmed, to run through and to animate your whole Discourse, and to be the foundation on which your Superstructure is built. Concerning them all, you say, pag. 21. that in the sense the words do either naturally make out, or in which I understand them, of all the whole you can hardly own any one. Pray Sir, remember that I never pretended to set down your words, but to express your sense in my own. And if I do not make it appear, that there is no one of the Principles mentioned, which you have not (in the sense by me declared) affirmed, and asserted; I will be contented to be thought to have done you some wrong, and my self much more, for want of attending unto that Rule of Truth, which I am compelled so often to desire you to give up your self unto the conduct of.
IN the same page, you proceed to the consideration of my second Chapter; and therein of the Principles which I gathered out of your Fiat Lux; and which I affirmed, to run through and to animate your whole Discourse, and to be the foundation on which your Superstructure is built. Concerning them all, you say, pag. 21. that in the sense the words do either naturally make out, or in which I understand them, of all the whole you can hardly own any one. Pray Sr, remember that I never pretended to set down your words, but to express your sense in my own. And if I do not make it appear, that there is no one of the Principles mentioned, which you have not (in the sense by me declared) affirmed, and asserted; I will be contented to be thought to have done you some wrong, and my self much more, for want of attending unto that Rule of Truth, which I am compelled so often to desire you to give up your self unto the conduct of.
The first Principle imputed unto your Fiat Lux is, That we received the Gospel first from Rome. To which you say, We, that is we English men, received it first from thence. Well then, this is one Principle of the Ten; this you own and seek to defend, If you do so in reference unto any other, what will become of your hardly one that you can own? You have already one foot over the limits which you have newly ⟨p. 38⟩