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A03882	A treatise concerning the properties and offices of the true Church of Christ VVritten in Latin, by the reuerend Father Iames Gordon Huntley of Scotland, Doctour of Diuinity, of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English, by I.L. of the same Society. The first part of the second controuersy; Controversiarum epitomes. English. Selections	Gordon, James, 1541-1620.; Wright, William, 1563-1639.	1614 (1614)	STC 13997; ESTC S118148	27,620	62

of the Church 14. The fifth office of the Church is to defend her children For this cause she opposeth her selfe against the Aduersaries of Christ. She professeth publickely her faith she fighteth cōtinually with the serpēt and his seed she suffereth much yet alwaies getteth the victory No weapon saith the Propet Isay that is made against thee shal proceed or leuel right And Christ saith Vpō this rocke I wil build my Church the gates of Hel soal not preuaile against it And in another p●ace You shall suffer trouble and pressure in this world but be of good cheere I haue ouercome the world By these propert●es and offices of the Church if they be well considered all the errors of our Aduersaries may easily be confuted as by that which followeth will manifestly appeare CHAP. II. That out of the true Church of Christ there is no saluation THE first error is of certaine Sectaries of this tyme who promise men saluatiō out of the Church But this error is easily refuted by the Scripture For that is most cleare and euident which Isaias the Prophet sayth speaking vnto the Church in the person or name of God That Nati●n and Kingdome saith he which hath not serued thee shall perish 2. The same also to be an errour is conuinced by the properties and offices of the Church before alleadged For first Christ hath but one spouse and acknowledgeth no other They shal be two in one flesh but I sayth the Apostle speake in Christ in the Church So also Christ speaketh of the Church my doue and my perfect is one Christ is not an adulterer neyther doth he beget any children of an adulteresse For this cause saith S. Cyprian the spouse of Christ cannot be an adulteresse she is not corrupted and she is chaste And a little after whosoeuer being separated from the Church is ioyned to an adulteresse he is separated from the promises of the Church Nerthe● shall he euer attaine to the rewards of Christ who teares the Church of Christ. He is an aliene he is prophane he is an enemy he cannot now haue God for his Father who hath not the Church for his Mother These he which last words S. Augustin repeateth out of him 2. Secondly he that is without the body of Christ cannot receiue the spirit of Christ nor be partaker of the lyfe and merits of Christ. But he who hath not the spirit of Christ is not his as witnesseth the Apostle S. Augustine declareth this very well by the example of a mans body whose members cannot liue vnlesse they be ioyn●d to the body Another reasō also S. Augustine alledgeth taken from the foresaid property of the Church None sayth he obtaineth saluatiō euerlasting lyfe but he who hath Christ to be his head But none can haue Christ to be his head but he who is in his body which is the Church So sayth S. Augustine 4. Thirdly the Name only of a Mother doth proue this sufficiently For none can be conceyued nor borne without a mother and the child which is borne if it leaue to sucke the mothers breasts will perish for hunger By which argument euen our wisest Aduersaries are convinced For both Caluin and Beza doe confesse this that euen the name only of a mother doth conuince that which we haue sayd to be true yea also the Scripture doth oftē testify that out of the boosome of the Church we cannot hope for the remission of our sinnes nor euerlasting saluation and that the goyng out of the true Church was alwaies-hatefull And hence it commeth to passe that in the Creed of the Apostles first we beliue the holy Catholike Church and then the remission of sinnes and lyfe euerlasting because indeed without this Church none can obtaine eyther remissiō of their sinnes or life euerlasting CHAP. III. That the Church of Christ is to continue for euer THE second error of our Aduersaries is that many of them affirme that the Church of Christ hath not continually endured but that it sometymes fayled This error may also be easily refuted by the foresayd propertyes offices of the Church For first the Church is the spouse of Christ of which he speaketh by the Prophet I will betroth thee vnto me for euer Christ therfore did not betroth his Church vnto him for a few yeares only 2. Secondly the Church is the Body of Christ but Christ cannot be without his body and truly it were a monstrous thing to see a liuing head without a body 3. Thirdly the Church is the Kingdome of Christ but the Scriptures doe teach in many places that this Kingdome of Christ shall continue for euer as Micheae 4. v. 7. Daniel 2. v. 44. Ierem. 33. v. 20. 21. Luc. 1. 22. 33. Lastly Christ sweateth in his Holy One that is to say by his Holines that the Kingdome of Christ shall last for euer Wherefore they endeauour to make Christ himself periured who affirme that the Kingdome of Christ sometymes perished 4. Fourthly the Church is the house of Christ the which he built vpon a rocke against which the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile 5. Fifthly this same is proued by the offices of the Church The Church shall shew the death of our Lord vntil he come God also gaue some as Apostles and Doctors who should teach and rule the Church vntill we meet all in Christ in the end of the world Whē Christ also sent his Disciples to teach all Nations and to administer the Sacramēts he added this promise Behould I am with you all dayes euen to the consūmation of the world By which words as S. Hierome wel noteth he sheweth that they are to liue alwayes and that he is neuer departed from the faithfull belieuers 6. Lastly our Aduersaries themselues being cōuinced with the truth of this matter do acknowledge that the holy Scriptures do testify this in many places For Caluin and Beza to omit many others do acknowledge and proue this out of the Scriptures Seing that sayth Beza the Kingdome of Iesus Christ is continuall it necessarily followeth that there haue alwaies bin some to be found who did acknowledge him for their King CHAP. IIII. That this Church which hath alwaies continued hath alwaies byn visible THE third error of our Aduersaries is that they deny the Church of Christ to haue byn alwayes visible For seing that they cannot deny but that the Church of Christ hath alwayes continued as we haue declared in in the precedent Chapter and whē we demaund of them where their Church was for the space of a thousand yeares and more they fly vnto a certaine inuisible Church which they say lay hidden for many yeares But this error also is easily refuted by the soresaid properties and offices of the true Church 2. For first the Church is the body of Christ but this body of Christ was