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Now the sum of all these things is this, that Christ is the true, perpetual, necessary: & to be short, the only mark ⟨image 33⟩of the Church: yea I say, the true Christ that is, such a one, as he from the beginning hath most perfectly (touching the matter and manner of salvation, revealed him self, both in the writings, of the prophets and of the Apostles.¹ For that saying standeth sure: He that gathereth not with me, scattereth abroad: and that saying,² that christ is that corner stone of the foundation, upon whom the whole building riseth up: And that only head, which ministereth unto his body, that is unto the true catholic Church, all feeling and moving: To be short,³ he is the door, the way, the resurrection, and the life. Therefore, wheresoever that word is heard, as it ought to be, there in deed Christ reigneth, and where Christ reigneth, there in deed we judge the Catholic, visible Church to be, neither tied to any certain place, nor unto the multitude: for where that dead carcass is, ⁴to wit Christ crucified, there be those Eagles: there is salvation,⁵ where that only name is, in which we must be saved: there be the children of light, where that sun shineth there be the true sheep. Where the voice of ⟨image 34⟩that shepherd is heard, ⁶although two or three only, throughout all the world, shall be truly gathered together in his name: And to speak in few words, where that true seed is sown, there is the Lords field: and there that harvest groweth, which shall never be burned.

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