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christian_n	body_n	church_n	mystical_a	1,148	5	10.4023	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13952	A briefe institution of the common places of sacred divinitie Wherein, the truth of every place is proved, and the sophismes of Bellarmine are reprooved. Written in Latine, by Lucas Trelcatius, and Englished by Iohn Gawen, minister of Gods word.; Scholastica, et methodica, locorum communium s. theologiæ institutio. English	Trelcatius, Lucas.; Gawen, John, minister of Gods word.	1610 (1610)	STC 24261; ESTC S103024	183,328	620

if we know which is the true church the other if by meanes of the times wee can adjoyne our selues to the same XI FRom a false definition layed down a false proofe is drawne and therefore both the Antecedent and Consequent of the Argument is denyed XII THe Testimonies of the Fathers which are cited doe eyther treate of the inward forme of the Church as that of Origen and Cyprian or of the Eternity of the Church and not of the Visibility therof as that of Chrysostome or lastly of the Particular Churches of some certaine time as that of Augustine In Defence of the matter of the Church and first that they which are not baptized and the Catechized or novices belong to the Catholicke church Against Bellarmine Lib. 3. Cap. 5. I. COr 5. It is one thing to treate of the not baptized by reason of their vnbeliefe and another of the not baptized because of their vncapablenes eyther of age or profession of faith and to be without and not to be baptized are things different for as they are sometimes without which are baptised so on the contrary they are sometimes within which are not baptized II. ACT. 2. there is a two-fold adding to the church the one according to the judgement of the truth and the inward nature of Christianity the other according to the judgement of charity which is beleeved to be because of the outwarde communion of the Signes that is proper to the Church invisible but this to the church visible and of this but not of that doth the place treat III. THe Body of the Church and Baptisme are so called ambiguously for the body is eyther outward or mysticall and spirituall Baptisme likewise is eyther outward or inward eyther of water or of bloud all which are baptized with water are of the outward body of the Church but all those which are baptized with the bloud of Christ are of the mysticall and spirituall body of the Church IIII THe Catechized or Novices with the Fathers are two wayes distinguished the one according to the opinion of the common people for they were not numbred amōg the Christians who might not seeme to belieue albeit they beleeved The other according to the forme of the Church To which because they pertain not properly they are thought not to bee of the Church though they bee the members of the Church invisible V. THe respect of right is one and of the fact is another he hath right to the Sacraments which hath faith Now by Fact none are admitted to the outward communion of the sacraments but those which professe faith Secondly that those which are excommunicated belong to the Church Invisible against Bellarmin Lib. 3. Cap. 6. OF Persons Excommunicate there are two sorts for some are justly excommunicated and some vnjustly those which are justly excommunicated are cast foorth out of the particular churches but not simply out of the catholicke Church For Excommunication is a censure not of the catholicke church but of the particular they which are vnjustly are neyther cast out of the visible church by right nor out of the invisible by right or fact Now the Testimonies of the Scriptures or of the Fathers which are alleadged doe eyther treate of those which are iustly excommunicated or of the Excommunication of particular Churches whereof there is no question Thirdly that the predestinate alone pertaine to the Invisible Church against Bellarmine Lib. 3. Cap. 7. I. TO be in the Particular church and to be of the catholicke church are thinges different the one is for a man to adjoyne himselfe to that outward society of the faithfull but the other to bee as a member ingraffed and conjoyned vnto Christ Wherefore also these are two thinges different namely to be cast out of the particular church and to be cast out of the catholicke church That is done by Excommunication but this by no means can ever ●e done Now the places which are cited Mat. 3. Mat. 15. Mat. 25. 1. Cor. 5. 2. Tim. 2. are true concerning the particalar outward churches and not concerning the Catholicke Adde further that the Argumentes drawne from Parables are of small waight beyond the meaning of the Holy Ghost II. A Man is sayde to be of the church two wayes eyther according to Gods Election or Predestination or according to the outward Temporall calling the one way every faithfull man is a member of the catholicke church even from everlasting the other way no man is indeed to be a member of the visible church vnlesse he bee called in time Paul then was of the catholicke church even when he was not of the visible church before his calling but Iudas was not of the catholicke church though hee was of the visible church as touching his outward calling III. PRedestination is two wayes to bee considered eyther abstractly or absolutely as it comprehendeth that decree of God from eternity or compositiuely and Relatiuely as it comprehendeth all the meanes which are necessary for the execution of that decree as Vocation Iustification c. After the first manner every Person Predestinate is called a member of the catholicke church after the latter maner no man is called a member of the visible church but as hee is called Iustified c. IIII. THe Respect of brethren and of the church is not the same For they are called brethren which are eyther joyned together in an outwarde society and profession of faith or who haue the same Right of adoption with vs. Those are knowne these are not In like manner the Church is considered eyther as Catholicke or Particular the Predestinate are called the members of the Catholicke church and not of the Particular generally Of the FORME of the Church first of the Markes thereof against Bellarmine Lib. 4. Cap. 4. to the End of the booke I. THe manner of reasoning from Names is inconsequent For according as the things are certaine so Names which are of Imposition are accidentall voluntary and therefore vncertaine Neyther can that bee a marke of the Church whereby the true may bee discerned from the false which eyther cannot be seene because of the vniversality it selfe which is only to be perceyved by the vnderstanding or is commonly vsed according to that which is spokē of others who liue without the Churches II. ANtiquity as beeing a thing accidentall separable common by sense not perceiuable cannot bee a Marke of the Church It is a thing accidentall because it maketh not the Essence of the Church but happeneth therevnto because of the processe of time It is a thing separable because without this the Church was somtimes knowne both the old church in the time of Adam and the churches of the New Testament in the time of Christ and of the Apostles It is a thing common because a lye or heare-say haue also their antiquity It is a thing by sense not perceiuable because antiquity it selfe can be discerned by the vnderstanding and reason onely III. THe