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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

visible for the Apostle spake vnto visible men when he sayd you are the body of Christ. Moreouer we are made the body of Christ by baptisme and the receyuing of the Eucharist as witnesseth the Apostle But these Sacraments are visible Also in this body of Christ there are Doctors and Pastors vntill the consūmatiō of Saynts vntil we meet with Christ but such persons are visible The building also of the Church is visible this consūmation of Saints is visible that uorke of ministery is visible which the Apostle sayth shall continue vntill the comming of Christ. 3. Secondly the Church is the Kingdome of Christ but euery Kingdome cōprehendeth in it a visible company of mē who all acknowledge one King Hence it is that God describing by the Prophet Ieremy this Kingdome of Christ speaketh in this sorte of the multitude of men which shal be in the Kingdome of Christ. Euen as saith our Lord the starres of Heauē cannot be numbred and the sands of the sea measured so will I multiply the seed of my seruant Dauid and the Leuits my seruants But such and so great a multitude of men cannot be inuisible 4. In like manner the Prophet Isay describing the said Kingdome of Christ and the couenant of God with it thus writeth I will make a perpetuall league with them and their seed shal be knowne in all Nations and their ofspring in the middest of the people all that shall see them shall know them because this is the seede that God hath blessed where it is manifestly sayd that all Nations euen the Infidels assoone as they shall behould and see the Church they shall easily know her by the benefits of God bestowed vpon her Caluin himselfe acknowledgeth this to be spoken of the Church and he addeth that this hath not only once been fullfilled but is dayly fulfilled 5. Lastly if this Kingdome of Christ were sometymes inuisible God himselfe which God forbidde we should say were periured whō sweareth that the throne of Christ that is to say his Kingdome shal be like the sunne and as a perfect moone and that for euer but the sunne and the perfect or full moone are very visible planets easily to be seene of all men and not inuisible 6. Thirdly the Church of God is that Citty which is situated vpon a most high Mountayne yea vpon a Mountayne which is placed vpon the toppe of moūtayns the which our Lord will strēgthen for euer wherof Christ himselfe speaketh A Citty placed vpon a mountayne cannot be hidden And agayne You are the light of the world neyther do they light a candle and put it vnder abushell but vpon a candelsticke that it may giue light vnto all which are in the house Christ therefore hath made his Church not to hyde it but that it might be perspicuous manyfest vnto all heerupon S. Augustine VVhat more sayth he shall I say but that they are blind who do not see so great a mountayne who shut their eyes against a candle placed vpon a candlesticke And in another place saith he that those who see not the Church had rather as it were blindfold offend against this mountaine then climbe vp vnto it 7. Fourthly the same is proued by the foresaid offices of the Church for that Church must necessarily be visible which conceyueth and bringeth forth Infidells to Christ by the preaching of the Ghospell for neyther they which do preach are inuisible but visible and the preaching also it is visible and not inuisible That Church also is visible which nourisheth Christians with her publicke exhortations instructions and ministration of Sacraments and good examples which explicateth and keepeth the Scriptures who gouerneth and orescribeth Lawes and precepts whome therfore we must obey And she is visible vnto whome according to the commaundment of Christ all complaints and causes are to be brought And Lastly she is visible of whome in our aduersities we must demaund help and comfort of whome in our aduersities we must demaund help and comfort who publickly confesteth Christ who fighteth with the serpent and getting the victory triumpheth against him and moreouer she exerciseth all those offices which are before alleadged 8. Fifthly if the visible Church should once perish that article of the Greed were false I belieue in the Catholik Church the communion of Saints For that Church which is Catholike or vniuersall cannot be inuisible that Church which is dilated or spread abroad throughout the whole world cannot be but very visible and conspicuous and that not in one only place but in many And hence it commeth to passe that the true Church is cōpared to the Sunne and the Moone the which are very visible plannets and easily to be seene of all Neyther can there be this belieued cōmunion of Saints vnlesse the said Saints mutually be manifest and visible one vnto another seing that this communication as the Apostle saith consisteth in the continuall helpe which one member affoardeth vnto another but none can affoard any help to that which is inuisible and vnknowne Moreouer this communication of offices is very sensible and visible That also is visible which is a corporall substance and generally in many places Wherfore S. Augustine saith Yt is an easy matter for thee to behold and see that Citty which is situated vpon a mountaine of whome our Lord in the Ghospell saith that it cannot be hidden For she is the Catholike Church whereupon she is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because she is published and spread ouer all the whole world of whome it is not lawfull for any to be ignorant and therfore according to the saying of our Lord Iesus Christ she cannot be hidden Hitherto S. Augustine 9. Sixthly that Church is visible which contayneth in it aswell the good as the euill and aswell the predestinate as the reprobate as our Aduersaries themselues acknowledge who will haue the inuisible Church to consist of those only which are predestinate But that the Church which containeth in it aswell the euil as the good shall continue vnto the end of the world those wordes of Christ suffer both to growe till haruest do euidētly demōstrate vnto vs. Yea euē out Aduersaries themselues doe plainly confesse that the holy Scripture doth declare this by many Parables Yt may therfore be gathered out of holy Scriptures euen by the iudgemēt of our Aduersaries that there is not only an inuisible but also a visible Church to wit wherein the good are mixed with the bad which shall alwaies continue till the end of the world 10. Seauenthly it is all one to affirme the Church to be inuisible and to affirme that it hath wholy perished and that there is no Church at all the which as we haue declared before is most absurd For this inuisible Church of our Aduersaries can affoard no help to any seeing that she is not knowne to any but