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

No more then all the schools in England or in the world must have such a Political constitution, and Government by combinations of schoolmasters. We confess also that the Church is but one as well as they, & that they are to make the same profession and use the same worship, in regard of which they are called visible members, and the Church a visible Church; as by reason of their faith and the spirit within them, it is called invisible: as if we should distinguish a man into visible and invisible in respect to his body and soul; which make not two men: we confess also that there is an ineffectual faith of assent that goeth without a hearty consent: and that many are to be admitted by us into the visible Church by Baptism (by solemnization) upon a bare Profession, who have not faith either of one sort or other. And we confess that such as so remain in the Church, do live under those benefits and means which have a special tendence to their true conversion. But yet we very much d•ffer in this. The Papists make the Primary sense of the word Church, to be of the visible Church as the samosius significatum, and therefore they say ⟨p. 48⟩that to be entered by Baptism, 1. Into a Profession of assent, 2. Into communion in Ordinances, and 3. Under one and the same Government, or external policy, is all that is requisite to make a Church-member. But we say that the first and famosius significatum is the whole multitude of true Believers that have the spirit of God, and his saving Grace; and that it is one and the same Church that is called first mystical, as being called out of the world to Christ by true faith: and then visible, because of their Profession of that same faith: and therefore if any Profess that faith who are without it, these are members but secundum quid, or equivocally, as the hair and the nails are members of the body, which indeed are no members in the proper and first sense: or as a wooden leg is a member, or as a body without a soul is a man: or as the peas or chaff and straw are corn: The body may be said to be part of the man, when it is animated: but a corps or body that never was animated is not properly a part: the straw and chaff are called part of the corn-field (though indeed but appurtenances to the corn) but if there were no corn, they should have no such title, and when they are separable they shall lose it.

No more then all the schools in England or in the world must have such a Political constitution, and Government by combinations of schoolmasters. We confess also that the Church is but one as well as they, & that they are to make the same profession and use the same worship, in regard of which they are called visible members, and the Church a visible Church; as by reason of their faith and the spirit within them, it is called invisible: as if we should distinguish a man into visible and invisible in respect to his body and soul; which make not two men: we confess also that there is an ineffectual faith of assent that goeth without a hearty consent: and that many are to be admitted by us into the visible Church by Baptism (by solemnization) upon a bare Profession, who have not faith either of one sort or other. And we confess that such as so remain in the Church, do live under those benefits and means which have a special tendence to their true conversion. But yet we very much dffer in this. The Papists make the Primary sense of the word Church, to be of the visible Church as the samosius significatum, and therefore they say