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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	catholic_n	church_n	visible_a	3,605	5	9.5506	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43581	A review of Mr. Horn's catechisme, and some few of his questions and answers noted by J.H. of Massingham p. Norf.	Hacon, Joseph, 1603-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing H177; ESTC R16207	79,887	160

he presenteth his Gift his body his merits his prayers his incense our names also or persons in some sort gifts or services all of them but Sacrifice none of them These two words offer and present are coupled together in the Answer thus He in his Ascension offered and presented himself as the prepared Sacrifice to his Father To offer a prepared Sacrifice is one thing which Christ then did not it is another to present himself who was before offered in Sacrifice and thus did our Priest and Advocate and Intercessour appear in the presence of God for us Hebr. 9. 24. So this is the abuse to make us beleeve that because whatsoever is presented may be said to be offered therefore it must be offered as a Sacrifice Another Text is Psal. 110 Thou art a Priest for ever The eternity of his Priesthood can be no where but in heaven Therefore no where but in heaven was his Sacrifice perfected Thus he seemeth to argue thence Answ. Priest and Sacrifice are relative where one is the other is also A priest must offer sacrifice but it is not requisite that he should do it always in actu exercito it is enough that it be done in actu signato that is that he will offer or hath offered or can according to Law and Rite offer sacrifice Jesus Christ is a Priest for ever but he doth not ever or always sacrifice The Sacrifice was offered but once and how often doth the Apostle rehearse that word Once by vertue of which he was consecrated a Priest for ever One Text more Hebr. 9. 12. by his own bloud he entred into the Holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us Answ. But this bloud was shed upon the cross as the bullock and the ram were first slain and then their bloud was carryed into the most holy place The Sacrifice was without the Application of it was within the veil Having obtained that is formerly by his passion and this Redemption thus obtained before his Ascension is called eternal because it did abide and continue so that there was no need of any second any other Redemption to follow after Ascension Q. 160. Who is the head and governour of this Church A. Jesus Christ himself is the onely head and Lord of it though he substitute others for helps of government and usefulness therein Q. 161. What be they A. For more inward growth and helpfulness he hath given Apostles Prophets Evangelists Pastours and Teachers For outward order Bishops or Elders and Deacons The Church is considered two ways 1 Generally consisting of all those who are joyned together in profession of Christianity and outward means of salvation 2 more especially consisting of those who are the best and principal united to God in faith and love The former of these is termed the Church visible or The many called the other is termed the Church invisible or The few chosen The visible Church Catholick is the whole number of professing Christians thorowout the world All that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ This great body or societie Ecclesiastical containeth and comprehendeth under it as parts of it all the parish Churches all Classical Diocesan Provincial and National Churches Of the Catholick invisible Church Jesus Christ is the onely Head and Lord but he hath not substituted any other in his stead nisi vicarium spiritum sanctum unless the Holy Ghost He hath indeed appointed officers in the Church visible which officers have hitherto usually been divided into two sorts first Temporary extraordinary and secondly Perpetual and ordinary which division I think it had been better to retain than to give us a new one which will not hold For certainly the Apostles and Evangelists did govern outwardly and as certain it is that the Bishops or Elders did teach and feed the flock of God for inward growth and helpfulness Acts 20. 28. and 1 Pet. 5. 2. It should seem that he means here The Catholick Church visible for such was the Church he described in Answ to Qu. 158. A company of men called out of the world and gathered into the worhip of God In this Church indeed our Saviour hath set officers 1 Cor. 12.28 in which whole chapter the Apostle treateth of this kinde of Church and it is true also that Jesus Christ may be said to be Head of this Church in regard of the Graces of Edification derived from him for the Offices Ministery and Government of his Church and in regard of the common benefits and common gifts of a spiritual kinde and thus is said v. 12. So also is Christ where he meaneth by Christ this Body of the Catholick Church visible of which he is in some sort the Head and which is in some sort his Body and therefore called Christ Though most properly he is as most commonly he is said to be Head onely of that Body whereof he is also the Saviour Eph. 5. 23. which as his Spouse or wife shall live and reign with him for ever in heaven And I have some reason to think that our Catechist did not intend in this place so much to exclude the Bishop of Rome from being the spiritual head of the Christian world as he did intend to exclude the Christian Magistrate from ruling in a National or any other particular Church Many years now past that the King of England should be called Head of the Church offended the parties of each extremitie As those of our own were sorely troubled at it so was it the point or sting of the charge against the Bishop of Rochester when Hadr. Junius was blasted from Rome for that in the Dedication of his Greek Lexicon to Edward the VI he called him Supreme Head of the Church of England he pleaded for himself by letters to the Court of Cardinals that here with us to clip the Kings Title was almost as Capital as to clip his Coin Howbeit it was thought fit in the beginning of the Queens Reign whether to alter it or explain it by putting Governour in stead of Head More as I suppose out of charitable condescension then any necessity or harm in the word inasmuch as the word doth not note any internal efficacy or influence but onely outward regiment the title or term of LORD being as liable to exception both the one and the other signifying no more then Superiority or pre-eminence and a King or Queen regnant might as well be called Head of these National Churches as Saul was called by Samuel Head of the tribes of Israel 1 Sam. 15 17. And that argument had with it more fallacy then civility which some formerly have used Omnes filii participes c. All that are sons are partakers of chastisement or Discipline No true or right-bred son that is extra Disciplinam Therefore the Supreme Magistrate being a Christian must be censurable as others are because he is a son of the Church But of what Church is he a son of