Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

Their great Fundamental error on which they build their tottering Babel and tyrannical usurpation, is this: that the Catholic church is one Political society, united in one visible head, and governed by those that hold their power from him, or at least are ruled by him, and are conjoined under these overseers in one Profession of faith and use of Sacraments. Bellarmines words are these (De Eccles. lib. 3.) Nostra autem sententia est ecclesiam unam tantum esse, non duas; et illam unam et veram esse coetum hominum ejusdem Christianae fidei Professione, et eorundem sacramentorum communion colligatum, sub regimine legitimorum Pastorum, ao praecipue unius Christi in terris vicarii, Romani Pontificis. And he addeth afterward [Hoc interest inter sententiam nostram et alias omnes, quod omnes aliae requirunt internas virtutes ad constituendum aliquem in ecclesia, et propterea ⟨p. 46⟩ecclesiam veram invisibilem faciunt: nos autem et credimus in ecclesia inv•niri omnes virtutes, fidem, spem, charitatem, et caeteras: tamen ut aliquis aliquo modo dicipossit pars verae ecclesiae, de qua scripturae loquuntur, non putamus requiri ullam internam virtutem, sed tantum externam professionem fidei et sacramentorū communionem, quae sensu ipso percipitur. Ecclesia enim est coetus hominum ita visibilis, palpabilis, ut est coetus populi Romani, vel Regnum Galliae, aut respublica Venetorum.] Yet other Papists be not so strict with us, but that they will distinguish between the professing Church and the true believing Church. And Bellarmine in the next words citeth a passage as Austins, which he commendeth; which maketh Faith, Hope and Charity to be the soul of the Church; and the external profession of faith and use of sacraments to be the Body of it; and some persons to be in it in one respect only, some in the other only, and some in both. They confess indeed that of duty, men should be found Believers at the first; but ordinarily they say, that is not to be expected and therefore they are first to be entered into the Church (this visible Church) by Baptism, that this may be a means to bring them higher: and by this entrance they are put under right guides, and into the true body, and so are fed with true ordinances, yea, with Christs body and blood; and so are in the way to a true spiritual state.

Their great Fundamental error on which they build their tottering Babel and tyrannical usurpation, is this: that the Catholike •hurch is one Political society, united in one visible head, and governed by those that hold their power from him, or at least are ruled by him, and are conjoyned under these overseers in one Profession of faith and use of Sacraments. Bellarmines words are these (De Eccles. lib. 3.) Nostra autem sententia est ecclesiam unam tantum esse, non duas; et illam unam et veram esse coetum hominum ejusdem Christianae fidei Professione, et eorundem sacramentorum communione colligatum, sub regimine legitimorum Pastorum, ao praecipue unius Christi in terris vicarii, Romani Pontificis. And he addeth afterward [Hoc interest inter sententiam nostram et alias omnes, quod omnes aliae requirunt internas virtutes ad constituendum aliquem in ecclesia, et propterea