XXII. Without the catholicke church is no saluation.

Here hence we consequently learne, & be∣leeue, that this catholicke church onely is so holie, and hath saluation so annexed to it: that out of it there is no holines, no saluation: sith that in it onely the trueth so shineth, (without which saluation can come to none,) that with∣out it there can bee no trueth: and lastly, sith none but the bodie of Christ can be saued. * For no man ascendeth into heauen, but he vvhich came downe from heauen, the sonne of man, vvhich is in heauen: that is, the whole sonne of man, withal his whole bodie, which is the church: that not vnfitly Peter compared the church to Noahs arke, in which alone, mankinde was preserued, * and out of which whosoeuer were found, pe∣rished in the waters of the floode. * Nowe that which wee confesse of the whole church as a thing most assured, the same of euerie particu∣lar one, we cannot graunt: namely, to say, that in this church alone, or that, in the Romish, or that at Constantinople, the rrueth and sal∣uation is obtained: so that without it should be no saluation: and consequently to depart from it, were nothing else then to forsake the trueth, our saluation, and Christ. For some church may bee brought to that passe: that vn∣lesse thou departest from the fellowship ther∣of, Page  203thou canst haue no parte nor fellowshipp with the catholicke church, and her head.