Visible Saints only are fit Matter appointed by God to make up a visible Church of Christ.
The terms shall be, 1. Opened. 2. The Question stated. 3. The Conclusion proved.
Saints as they are taken in this controversie, and in the currant expressions of Scripture, which look this way, and speak to this subject (Saints at Corinth, Saints at Philippi, at Rome, in Caesars house) were members of the Churches, comprehending the In∣fants of confoederate believers under their Parents Covenant, ac∣cording to 1 Cor. 7.14. and such constant expressions of Saintship do intimate, that either they were such, or at least conceived to be such in view and in appearance. I say in appearance: for when the Scripture so terms and stiles men, we must know that Saints come under a double apprehension. Some are such according to Cha∣rity: Some according to truth. Saints according to charity are such, who in their practice and profession (if we look at them in their course, according to what we see by experience, or re∣ceive by report and testimony from others, or lastly, look we at their expressions) they savour so much, as though they had been with Jesus. From all which, as farre as rationall charity directed by rule from the Word, a man cannot but conclude, That there