The triall of truth Containing a plaine and short discovery of the chiefest pointes of the doctrine of the great Antichrist, and of his adherentes the false teachers and heretikes of these last times.
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The triall of truth Containing a plaine and short discovery of the chiefest pointes of the doctrine of the great Antichrist, and of his adherentes the false teachers and heretikes of these last times.
Author
Terry, John, 1555?-1625.
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At Oxford :: Printed by Joseph Barnes, and are to be sold [by J. Broome, London] in Paules church-yard at the signe of the Bible,
Ann. Dom. 1600.
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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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Div. 2.
That the church of Christ is not alwaies visible
OVr creede teacheth vs to say, I beleeue, and not I see the * 1.1 catholike church: that is, hovvsoever the members of the true church are not alvvaies visible, nor their com∣panies conspicuous, yet I beleeue that GOD hath his church and congreg••tion in some place or other which rightly and sin∣cerely worshipeth him in spirit & truth. And therfore this church as it is sometimes likened to the Moone in her full brightnes, so it is sometimes compared to the same greatly obscured, and after a sort loosing her vvhole light: And as it is sometimes resembled to a city built vpon a hill, vvhich is admirable for her exceeding beautie and glorie: so it is sometimes also
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compared to a cottage in a vineyarde, and to a lodge in a garden of cu∣cumbers, and to a besieged c•…•…ty defaced and wasted with extreame misery, and to a countrey over•…•… and after a sorte dispeopled by the sworde of the enemy. As it came to passe not onely amonge the Israelites in the time of Elias, but also in the kingdome of Iudah in the time of Isayas; who complaineth that al māner of cor∣ruptions in al estates of mē were so grievous, & had made so great havocke, that had not the Lord reserved vnto himselfe a small re••∣nant, they had beene made as So••oma and like vnto Gomortha, And * 1.2 how stoode the case with the church in the beginning of the A∣postles times? vvas it not such that it gaue iust occasion to Saint Paul to renevv againe the same complainte? Yea this remnaunt vvas so smal at our Saviours death, that it hath beene deemed by some, that the church was only then in the blessed Virgin: and in Davids and Ieremies time this company also was so inconspicuous, that one of them crieth out, * 1.3Helpe Lord, for there is not one godly man left: and the other is willed by the Lorde himselfe to runne to and fro through the streetes of Ierusalem, and to inquire, if there were one that executed iudgement and embraced truth, and hee would spare all for ones sake.