III.
THe conclusion is inconsequent from the catholicke church to a Parti∣cular: for neyther doe all the conditi∣ons, or properties of the whole church, fitte to every part therof, eyther alwaies, or altogether: and those two propositi∣ons, Mat. 16. & 1. Tim. 3. are to bee vn∣derstood Page 465 of the catholicke, and invisi∣ble church, as all the circumstances thereof doe evidently proue. For the foundation of the church cannot bee sayde to be visible, or sensible; whether you vnderstand Peter, according to the confession of the Adversary, for it cannot bee seene) or Christ (for hee is the mysticall head of a mysticall body) or the confession of faith, (for faith is onely to be perceyved by the vnderstan∣ding,) Neyther treateth hee of the Church, over which Timothie was chiefe in respect of the visiblenesse ther∣of, but so farre forth, as it was a parte of the catholicke invisible Church, and did only comprehend those which were in very deed of the houshold.