The whole body of Christian religion, by Hieron. Zanchius. Translated out of Latine by D. Ralph Winterton.

DOCT. XXIII. That the Catholick Church is not ty'd to certain persons or places.

FUrthermore we confesse that this Catholick Church, in regard it is Catholick, is therefore ty'd to no certain places or persons and nations; so as, if any person would be of this Church, it should be necessary for him to betake himself either to Rome or Wittenberg, or to depend on the authority of those Churches, their Bishop, and Ministers: seeing Christ is in all places, and every where the word may be heard, the Sacrament of Baptisme administred,

the precepts of Christ observed, and communion had with all the Saints. But wheresoever these are exercised, there is the Church; in which con∣sideration the Donatists were worthi∣ly condemned, who circumscrib'd the Church of Christ in Africa alone; and that not in all, but a part of it, namely where themselves dwelt, and would not admit it to be any where else. Nor with less reason are they to be condemn'd, who will not al∣low any Churches of forreigners to be true Churches, but onely those which consist of men of their own nation.