A briefe institution of the common places of sacred divinitie. Wherein, the truth of every place is proved, and the sophismes of Bellarmine are reprooved. Written in Latine, by Lucas Trelcatius, and Englished by Iohn Gawen, minister of Gods word.
Trelcatius, Lucas., Gawen, John,
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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.