z81 Ofthe vifibility ofthe Church. VERSE 2. 2, The1,2.3,7. Tin1.44. Cameron. de Ee- clefp.265-2,68. Ex illti °YAW-, bits qui intrinfe- ce c- in make intim font con_ fiat ille Herm conclufas,fens fignatits,em Aug.deBap tifm. cont.!) gnat cp. 2,7. Aliiita pot in demiDzi, ut ipfietiam fint cation Dorm Del Alii ita utnon pertine. ant ad compa- , gemDomig,&c. DeBapt.1.7.e.5 telleth us that the man of finne, the Someof perdition, fhould be revealed by ipoliacie, tonote untous that Antichrift was tobegeneratedout ofthe corruption or falling awayof for= eminent Church, and that, by a mytlerious and infenfibledeclination. A fecund queflion which may be made is this, off rime the Church cloth not totally faile from the earth, whether that which remaineth thereofbealwayes vifible ? To whichwee anfwere, That if wee take the Church for the fpirituall and myflicall body of Chrifi * which is indeed the Houk ofGod,fo it is ina fert f ill invifible, becaufe thequalities and principleswhich con- flit= a man in the bodyof Chrifl., as Faith, and the Spirit of Grace, are invifible things. Scene indeed they may beby aneye ofCharitie, in their fruits, but not by aneye of certainty, in their owne infalliblebeing. Se- condly, if wee take the Church for a company ofmen profiling the trueDolirineof Chri wee anfwere, that take the men in themfdves to truly profefling, and impof: fible it is but their faith Ihould (hew it felfe in the fruits thereof, for thekingdome of Chria is in the heart like leaven whichwill manireft it felfc in the whole Lampe, and fo wecan in all even the worn ages of the Church, dim Ionic who have wimeffed the truth againfl that delugeof ignorance, errour, and idolatry,which had in- vaded the world, like gray haires here and there min- gled on a blacke head ; as ifyou tingle out fire from the aches, it will be teen by its owne evidence, though it may be fo raked up that it is not obferved.But then ifwe fpeake of thefe men inaggregate, asconcurring to make up a diftina external body,or Church,fowe fay thatthe profeffors of the truth may be fo few, and they perfecu- ted, traduced, fuppretled, cried downe, driven into the wilderneffe, without any apparant, feparated confpicu- oufneffe,and governement of itsowne (as in the time of Confiaatigr theemperour the publikc profefforsof the Divinitle
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