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A18712	A brefe treatyse declaryng what and where the churche is, that it is knowen, and whereby it is tryed and knowen. Made by Iohn Churchson	Churchson, John.	1556 (1556)	STC 5219; ESTC S109858	36,742	164

quos sanctos maiores ac patres nostros celebrasse manifestum est Yf that we do by no meanes go backe from those vnderstādinges iudgementes whom it is playne our holy aunciettours and forefathers to haue preached and publyshed Of the same antiquitie Saint Paule admonyshed the Corrinthians saying If any man appeare to be contentious he must vnderstand that we haue no such custome nor the church of God whereby it is mooste playne that the church of God in S. Paules tyme dyd much and highly esteame customes how much more then shoulde auncient customes prescryptions and traditions deryued deduced brought from chrystes primatyue Church to the next age and so frō age to age contynuallye vntyll thys present be much estemed earnestly embraced and reuerentlye obeied of vs in these latter daies wherein many arroganthedes are desyrous of neuer receiued doctrines procedyng of proud singularitie cōtrary to our euer approued and r eceyued doctryne religion customes prescriptions and traditions euen from the begynnyng The whych Saint Iherome hauing in muche remembrāce sayd reuerentlye Ieron ad Oceanu● et pan●● ●llam senex tenebo fidem in qua puer natus sum I being an olde man wyl kepe that fayth that I a chylde was borne in knowyng ryght well not onely vnyuersalytie but also antyquytie of the vnyuersall Doctryne and relygion to be a sure and an vndouted token of the catholyke Churche and therefore he dyd wryght vnto Theophilus Scito nobis nihiless● antiquius quam nec Christi iura Ihero in Theophilum nec patrum transire terminos Knowe thou O Theophile nothyng to be vnto vs more acceptable than not to transgresse passe the lawes of Chryst and the determinations of our forefathers Galat. 1. And no merueyle for Paule hym selffe called immedyatlye by Christ and bountifully breathed wyth the Holye ghoste ascēded to Iherusalē to know hys auncyettes and predycesoures the apostles Galat. 2. and to consulte wyth them leste he hadde renne in vayne that is to saye lest he had not beleued as they beleued and had not preached Tertulli contra Merchio nem li. 9. as they preached Forasmuch as Paule so notable Apostle and the chosen vessell of Chryste dyd soo muche esteame the aucthoritie of hys aunciettes with the whyche he desyred to aduaūce his faith preachinge howe much more then shall it become vs ignoraūtes and graceles in comparison to obeye and folowe the vniuersall antiquitie of the catholyke doctryne an infallible sygne of the catholike Church And not to enclyne to a Doctryne neuer receyued nor practysed in Chryst hys vniuersall church but in all ages and in al countryes professing Christ iustly condempned for heresye Therefore most plaine it is the late Doctryne heare in Englande not to be a sounde but a corrupte Doctryne not catholyke not vniuersal but partyculer and pertiall not acknoledged nor knowen but straunge to Chryst his auncient catholyke Church the onely treasure house of GOD and of the ryght wourshyppyng of God Here bicause I wold be loth to be tedious I wyll surcease to speake any more of antyquyty and procede to the declaration of the thyrde sygne whych is vnytie Vnitie Where is not consent vnytie and agreament in doctryne there is scisme diuision and heresye Wherefore the catholyke Churche whereof Chryst is the hed who is oure peace Ephes 2 and hath made of bothe Iues and gentyles before dyuyded in relygion one bodye is not a myshapen confused disordered multitude but it is a conuocation moste ordrelye shapen of moste consonant ordre and proportion and that of beleauyng people vnyted and lyncked togyther in one religion of our Sauyour Chryste by one fayth and his visyble sacramentes Aug. ●ōt Faust lib 9. ca. 11. and therefore the Apostle Paule taught the Corynthyans broughte then by false teachers into scysme to embrace vnytye saying Obsecro uos per nomen domini nostri Iesu Christi 1. Cor. 1. ut id ipsum dicatis omnes non sint in nobis scismata sitis autem perfecti in eodem sensu et in eadem sententia I exhorte you in the name of our lorde Iesus Chryst that ye all saye one thynge and that there be no scismes among you but be ye perfect in one sence one mynde The same vnytye Paule teacheth by the similytude of a corporall body which as it is compact of many members in such a harmonye that ther is mutual cōmunion participatiō of cōmē mutual nurriture cōmoditi helth among them euen so the mystycall body of our Sauyoure Iesu the Churche is knytte together in one spyrytuall socyetye wyth suche a vnytye that there is a common and a mutuall participation of the whole mystycall body the vniuersal church in those spyrytuall thynges whyche be spyrytual nurriture of the soules in chrystian relygyon vnto the atchyuynge of lyfe eternall scysme and contentiō be so contrary vnto the vnytye of Chrystes Churche that Paule dyd wryte vnto the Corynthyans beyng in diuisyon and contention these wordes ensuyng 1. Co. 11 Si quis autem uidetur contentiosus esse nos talem consuetudinem non habemus neque ecclesia dei Yf any man do appeare to be contentious he must knowe that we haue no suche custome nether the church of God Note here that contention concernyng faythe and chrysten life is not among the catholykes the vniuersall congregation of God accustomed to vnitie and not to contentious diuisiō And therfore we reade in scrypture Deus qui inhabitare facit vnanimes in domo Psa 67. It is god whych maketh people of one mynd to dwel in his house whych is the Catholike Churche Wherby it is most manyfeste that scysme diuysion and contētyon be manyfest sygnes of the vnleafull assembles of heretykes and vnity the most vndouted and manyfest token of the leafull and godly congregation of faythfulles the whych vnitie plainlie to declare the scriptures affyrme to be but one church as ye maye reade in the genesis Gene. 6. We had but one arcke the expresse fygure of the church therfore Chryste hath but one churche that the veryty maye aunswer the figure Also in the seconde booke of Moyses it is written Cipri de coena domini In vna domo commeditur agnus The lambe shal be eaten in one house the which house Saint Cypryan vnderstandeth to be the churche saying Vna domus est ecclesie in qua agnus editur There is one house of the churche in the whych the lambe is eaten The lyke saying hath S. Austen addynge vnto Churche this worde Cotholyke which is thys In una domo agnus comeditur Aug. de sermo de uigil pen tec. quia in una ecclesia catholica uera hostia redemptoris immolatur The lambe is eaten in one house bycause the true and very hoste and oblation of our redemer is offered in one catholyk Church Thus Saynt Austen teacheth to be but one churche and the same to

omnes sub uno sunt nomine Ambrosi 2. timo 2 uno enim domini sui nomine censent ur omnes In one house sayeth S. Ambrose all be vnder one name for all are called by theyr Lordes name Which is not dissonant from the principle Euerithynge is to be named by the best and worthyest parte But our Lorde holynes it selfe is the best parte and worthyeste membre of the churche beyng heade thereof Therefore the churche ryghtly is called holy of holy Christ oure Lorde and heade yea and of the holy gost resydent therein Nowe that I haue briefly opened by the waye the cause why the catholyke churche is called holy ye must vnderstād the sayde article to teache vs the holye churche to be a communion of saynctes Vincent Airen that is to saye of Catholykes whereby we are taughte the catholyke churche to be a communitie societie or felowshyppe of catholykes because they persyste in the communion of the catholyke and vniuersall holy fayth that was and is obserued in the catholyke and vnyuersall churche and in the communiō also of the holye sacramentes whereby it is incorporate to oure holy heade Iesus Christ and clensed in his holy bloude Ephes 5. hallowed with his holy spyrit hath and doth holy thynges teacheth holye and holesome doctryne Of this conuocatiō communion and feloweshyp speakethe the electe vessell of Chryst Saynt Paule Multi unū corpus sumus in Christo Rom. 12. We beynge manye are one body in Christ So that the whole many and vniuersall multitude professīg one holye fayth and doctryne and being partakers of the same holye Sacramentes are the mystycall body of Chryst whiche is the Catholyke churche Therfore S. Ambrose sayeth Corpus Christi non unus aut duo christiani sed omnes Ambros in 1. cor 6 The bodye of Chryste is not one or two Christians but all Chrystians As in a natural bodye one two or three members make not the whole naturall bodye but all the mēbers ioyntlye in theyr places so the mystical bodye of Christ whiche is the Churche is not constituted by one or two christians but by all the Christiās in theyr vocatiō wheresoeuer they be ioyned and lynked together by the communion and participation of the same Sacramentes The lyke doctrine also S. Paule taught the Ephesians Vnum Corpus Ephes 4. You are one bodye Wherevpon Erasmus dyd wryte as foloweth Vnum corpus estis omn●s ab uno pendetis capite You are all one bodye and do depende of one heade Thus it is manyfeste all Christians to be the bodye of Christe that the integritie of Christ his misticall bodye consystethe by no lesse then all Christians and that therof is one head Christ hymselfe of whome the sayde bodye the Catholyke churche dependeth Albeit that in namynge the churche to be Christes body Christ is named the heade thereof for elles it could not be his bodye yet you may reade many Scryptures that he is by expresse words named the heade thereof whereof I wil reherse this one folowing Et ipsum dedit caput supra omnem ecclesiam Ephe. 1. que est corpus ipsius And GOD the fathermade him meaning Christ heade ouer all the vnyuersall churche whiche is his bodye Hereby you maye euydentlye se Christ to be head to all the churche all the church to be his bodye and by that worde all Paule teacheth the churche to be a vniuersall congregation Lykewyse to the Corynthians and to al christians professynge Christ as the Corynthes dyd Paule dydde wryte 1. Cor 12 Vos autem estis corpus Christi You be the bodye of Chryste Wherevpon Primasius saieth Omnes corpus al be the body of christ for the vniuersall and the whole body of Chryste was and is of all faythfulles Prima●●us and not of Corinthe onely Chris h● 23. in 1. Cor. 12. Therefore Chrysostome sayth Vniuersum corpus non illa Corrinthiorum est solum sed que vbilibet toto exta● terrarum orbe The vnyuersall body of chryst is not the Corinthian churche onelye but the churche that is euery wher through the whole worlde for the churche of Corinthe was but a particuler churche parte or member of that vniuersall church To be short Paule proueth the same by the symylytude of a naturall body 1. C● 1● saying Sicut enim cor●us unum est et membrahabet multa omnia autem membra corporis cum sint multa vnum tamen corpus sunt ita et christus For as a a naturall body is one hathe many members but thoughe all the members of that one body be many yet they are but on body euen so is chryste that is to say euen so is christ his churche as Chrisostome Iherome Primasius Theophilact with other olde aunciente wryters do expounde it as the bodye hed in man maketh one mā in lykewise the whole congregation and flocke of faythfulles and chryste the heade of them make on churche Chrisos ibidem And for that cause Chrysostome affyrmeth chryst in the sayd scrypture to be put for the churche naming the churche by the worthyeste and best part thereof And S. Austen sayeth Aug. to 9. ho. 17. trac 108 Vnus est christus caputet corpus The hed and the body is one chryst Wherefore the bodye whyche is the churche maye well be named by christ As breade also is made of innumerable graynes so the misticall body of Chryst the churche consysteth of innumerable faythfull members howe soeuer they be locally distant for Vnus panis et unum corpus multisumus 1. Cor. 10 We beynge manye sayeth the Apostle Paule are one breade and one bodye that is to saye we beyng manye lyke as manye graynes make one breade do make one body by on baptime and one faith incorporate to one heade our Lorde Iesus Chryst By a folde also of shepe is sygnified the catholyke churche as is wrytten in the tenth of Iohn Io. 10. and by Ciryll vpon the same so that the catholike churche is called also by scrypture the foelde or flocke pasturynge feadynge through the whole greate felde the worlde Mat. 13. wherin is the catholyke churche of the which Iesus Christ is the hed sheperd Nowe that I haue cōpetently declared what the catholyke churche is my promise byndethe me to enterpryse the declaration wher the same is Where the church is By thys worde catholyke whych is to say vniuersall added vnto the whole Churche most manyfestly we be taught where Chryste his Churche is for it declareth the sayde churche to strecth out her braūches and members in to all and euery part of the vniuersal world as well affyrmethe famouse Austen Aug. to 7. cō epi. pet de unitate ecclesie c. 2 Questio certe inter nos versatur ubi sit ecclesia utrum apud nos an apud illos quae utique una est quam maiores nostri catholicā nominarunt ut ex