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Whether they do beleeue that the christian Church is not only visible, but also inuisible?
IT behoueth in this place to vse some distinction. For the congregation of the saincts which are in heauen (althogh we be∣hold them with-the eies of our faith, & desire to be coupled with thē in the rest & ioy which they possesse) yet are they inuisible to the faithfull which liue here on the earth touching the bodily sight. Furthermore, ••ith God alone knoweth the harts, & that he on∣ly knoweth who are faythfull, and who not, and bicause many doo boste them selues to bée faythefull, whiche not∣withstanding are nothing so, but are mere hipocrites, which thing none séeth but God alone, yea and bycause many tymes men iudge those to be wretched ••inners, and abiectes from God, which