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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53665	Animadversions on a treatise intituled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion, between papist and Protestant, Presbyterian and independent by a Protestant.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1662 (1662)	Wing O713; ESTC R22534	169,648	656

or do deserve not the least notice from men who will seriously contemplate the hand power and wisdom of God in the work accomplished by them The next thing undertaken by our Author is the ingress of Protestancy into England and its progress there The old story of the love of King Henry the Eighth to Ann Bullen with the divorce of Queen Katharine told over and over long ago by men of the same principle and design with himself is that which he chooseth to flourish withall I shall say no more to the story but that English-men were not wont to believe the whispers of an unknown Fryer or two before the open redoubled Protestation of one of the most famous Kings that ever swaid the Scepter of this Land before the union of the Crowns of England and Scotland These men whatever they pretend shew what reverence they have to our present Soveraign by their unworthy defamation of his Royal Predecessors But let men suppose the worst they please of that great Heroick Person What are his miscarriages unto Protestant Religion for neither was he the Head Leader or Author of that Religion nor did he ever receive it profess it or embrace it but caused men to be burned to death for its profession Should 〈◊〉 by way of Retaliation return unto our Author the lives and practices of some of many not of the great or leading men of his Church but of the Popes themselves the Head sum and in a manner whole of their Religion at least so farre that without him they will not acknowledge any he knows well enough what double measure shaken together pressed down and running over may be returned unto him A work this would be I confess no way pleasing unto my self for who can delight in raking into such a sink of Filth as the lives of many of them have been yet because he seems to talk with a confidence of willingness to revive the memory of such ulcers of Christianity if he proceed in the course he hath begun it will be necessary to mind him of not boxing up his eyes when he looks towards his own home That Poysonings Adulteries Incests Conjurations Perjuries Atheism have been no strangers to that See if he knows not he shall be acquainted from stories that he hath no colour to except against For the present I shall only mind him and his friends of the Comaedian's advice Dehinc ut quiescunt porro m●neo desinant Maledicere malefactae ne noscant su● The declaration made in the days of that King that he was Head of the Church of England intended no more but that there was no other person in the world from whom any Jurisdiction to be exercised in this Church over his Subjects might be derived the Supreme Authority for all exterior Government being vested in him alone That this should be so the Word of God the nature of the Kingly Office and the ant●ent Laws of this Realm do require And I challenge our Author to produce any one Testimony of Scripture or any one word out of any general Council or any one Catholick Father or Writer to give the least countenance to his assertion of two heads of the Church in his sense an head of Influence which is Jesus himself and an head of Government which is the Pope in whom all the sacred Hierarchy ends This taking of one half of Christs Rule and Headship out of his hand and giving it to the Pope will not be salved by that expression thrust in by the way under him For the Headship of influence is distinctly ascribed unto Christ and that of Government to the Pope which evidently asserts that he is not in the same manner head unto his Church in both these senses but He in one and the Pope in another But whatever was the cause or occasion of the dissention between King Henry and the Pope it 's certain Protestancy came into England by the same way and means that Christianity came into the World the painful pious Professors and Teachers of it sealed its truth with their bloud and what more honourable entrance it could make I neither know nor can it be declared Nor did England receive this Doctrine from others in the days of King Henry it did but revive that light which sprung up amongst us long before and by the fury of the Pope and his adherents had been a while suppressed And it was with the blood of English-men dying patiently and gloriously in the flames that the truth was sealed in the dayes of that King who lived and dyed himself as was said in the profession of the Roman faith The Truth flourished yet more in the dayes of his pious and hopefull Son Some stop our Author tels us was put to it in the dayes of Queen Mary But what stop of what kind of no other than that put to Christianity by Trajan Dioclesian Julian a stop by fire and sword and all exquisite cruelties which was broken through by the constant death and invincible patience and prayers of Bishops Ministers and People numberless a stop that Rome hath cause to blush in the remembrance of and all Protestants to rejoyce having their faith tryed in the fire and coming forth more pretious than Gold Nor did Queen Elizabeth as is falsly pretended indeavour to continue that stop but cordially from the beginning of her Reign embraced that faith wherein she had before been instructed And in the maintenance of it did God preserve her from all the Plots Conspiracies and Rebellions of the Papists Curses and Depositions of the Popes with Invasions of her Kingdomes by his instigation as also her renowned Successor with his whole Regal posterity from their contrivance for their Martyrdom and ruin During the Reign of those Royal and Magnificent Princes had the Power and Polity of the Papal world been able to accomplish what the men of this innocent and quiet Religion professedly designed they had not had the advantage of the late miscarriages of some professing the Protestant Religion in reference to our late King of glorious Memory to triumph in though they had obtained that which would have been very desirable to them and which we have but sorry evidence that they do not yet aim at and hope for As for what he declares in the end of his 10th Paragraph about the Reformation here that it followed wholly neither Luther nor Calvin which he intermixes with many unseemly taunts and reflexions on our Laws Government and Governours is as far as it is true the glory of it It was not Luther nor Calvin but the Word of God and the practise of the primitive Church that England proposed for her rule and pattern in her Reformation and where any of the Reformers forsook them she counted it her duty without reflexions on them or their wayes to walk in that safe one she had chosen out for her self Nor shal I insist on his next Paragraph destined to the advancement of his interest

not judge him he stands or falls to his own Master That which the importunity of some Noble Friends hath compelled me unto is to offer somewhat to the judgement of impartial men that may serve to unmask him of his gilded pretences and to lay open the emptiness of those prejudices and presumptions wherewith he makes such a tinckling noyse in the ears of unlearned and unstable persons Occasion of serious debate is very little administred by him that which is the task assigned me I shall as fully discharge as the few hours allotted to its performance will allow In my dealing with him I shall not make it my business to defend the several Parties whereinto the men of his contest are distributed by our Author as such not all not any of them It is the common Protestant Cause which in and by all of them he seeks to oppose so far as they are interested and concerned therein they fall all of them within the bounds of our present Defensative Wherein they differ one from another or any or all of them do or may swerve from the common Principles of the Protestant Religion I have nothing to do with them in this business And if any be so far addicted to their Parties wherein it may be they are in the wrong as to choose rather not to be vindicated and pleaded for in that wherein with others I know they are in the right than to be joyned in the same plea with them from whom in part they differ I cannot help it I pretend not their Commission for what I do and they may when they please disclaim my appearance for them I suppose by this course I shall please very few and I am sure I shall displease some if not many I aim at neither but to profit all I have sundry reasons for not owning or avowing particularly any Party in this Discourse so as to judge the rest wherewith I am not bound to acquaint the World One of them I shall and I hope it is such an one as may suffice ingenious and impartial men and thereunto some others may be added The Gentleman whose Discourse I have undertaken the consideration of was pleased to front and close it with a part of a Speech of my Lord Chancellor's and his placing of it manifests how he uses it He salutes it in his Entrance and takes his leave also of it never regarding its intendment until coming to the close of his Treatise to his Salve in the beginning he adds an aeternùm Vale. That the mention of such an excellent Discourse the best part in both our Books might not be lost I have suited my Plea and Desensative of Protestantism to the spirit and principles and excellent ratiocinations of it behind that Shield I lay the manner of my Proceeding where if it be not safe I care not what becomes of it Besides it is not for what the men of his Title-page are differenced amongst themselves that our Author blames them but for what he thinks they agree in too well in reference to the Church of Rome nor doth be insist on the evils of their Contests to perswade them to Peace amongst themselves or to prevail over them to center in any one Perswasion about which they contend but to lead them all over to the Pope And if any of them with whom our Author deals and sports himself in his Treatise are fallen off from the Fundamental denominating Principles of Protestant Religion as some of them seem to be they come not within the compass of our plea seeing as such they are not dealt with by our Author It is the Protestant Religion in general which he charges with all the irregularities uncertainties and evils that he exspatiates about and from the Principles of it doth he endeavour to withdraw us As to the case then under debate with him it is enough if we manifest that that Profession of Religion is not lyable or obnoxious to any of the crimes or inconveniences by him objected unto it and that the Remedy of our Evils whether real or imaginary which he would impose upon us is so far from being specifical towards their Cure that it is indeed far worse then the Disease pretended to the full as undesirable as the cutting of the throat for the cure of a fore-finger There is no reason therefore in this business wherefore I should avow any one Perswasion about which Protestants that consent in general in the same Confession of Faith may have or actually have difference amongst themselves especially if I do also evince there is no cogency in them to cause any of them to renounce the Truth wherein they all agree Much less shall I undertake to plead for excuse or palliate the miscarriages of any Part or Parties of men during our late unhappy Troubles Nor shall I make much use of what offers it self in a way of Recrimination Certain it is that as to this Gentleman's pretensions sundry things might be insisted on that would serve to allay the fierceness of his spirit in his management of other mens crimes to his own ends and purposes The sound of our late Evils as it is known to all the World began in Ireland amongst his good Roman-Catholicks who were blessed from Rome into Rebellion and Murder somewhat before any drop of bloud was shed in England or Scotland Oculis malè lippus inunctis Cur in amicorum vitiis tam cernis acutùm Quàm aut Aquila aut Serpens Epidaurius Let them that are innocent throw stones at others Roman-Catholicks are unfit to be imployed in that work But it was never judged either a safe or honest way to judge of any Religion by the practises of some that have professed it Men by Doctrines and Principles nor Doctrines by Men was the trial of old And if this be a rule to guide our thoughts in reference to any Religion namely the Principles which it avows and asserts I know none that can vye with the Romanists in laying foundations of and making provision for the disturbance of the Civil Peace of Kingdoms and Nations For the present unto the advantage taken by our Author from our late unnatural Wars and Tumults to reflect on Protestancy I shall only say That if all the Religion of Sinners be to be quitted and forsaken I doubt that professed by the Pope must be cashiered for company Least of all shall I oppose my self to that moderation in the persuit of our Religious Interests which he pretends to plead for He that will plead against mutual forbearance in Religion can be no Christian at least no good one Much less shall I impeach what he declaims against that abominable Principle of disturbing the Peace of Kingdoms and Nations under a pretence of defending reforming or propagating of our Faith and Opinions But I know that neither the commendation of the former nor the decrying of the latter is the proper work of our Author for as the present Principles and