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Prop. 3. We are Agreed that this Catholic Church in regard of the outward Profession of this Inward Faith and Holiness, and in regard of the discernible numbers of persons making this Profession, hath ever been visible, since first it began to be visible: And that the visibility hath never had any intercision. If some Protestanss say otherwise, it's clear that this is all that by the common judgement of Protestants is maintained, viz. That Christians, and the Catholic Church containing the Professing Christians through the world, have ever since their first planting had a visible being; but yet 1. That the Visibility was not such but that Heretics (as the Arians did) might make a controversy of it, whether they, or the true Christians were the Church indeed, and by their greater numbers or Power might blind men, that they should not see which was the true Church. 2. And that in the Catholic Church some parts may ⟨p. 396⟩be much more corrupt, and others much more pure; and the Purer part be so much the lesser, and oppressed and vilified by the more corrupt, that the most part should not discern their Purity, but take them (as they did the Waldenses) for Heretics. 3. And that two parts or more of this Catholic Church may so fall out among themselves, as that one of them shall deny the other to be part of the Catholic Church, when yet they really for all that censure remain parts of it, as much as they: And hereupon may grow a contest between them, which of the two is the true Catholic Church, and one part may say, It is we and not you; and the other may say, It is we and not you: and no man shall be able to discern which of the two is the Catholic Church, because it is neither of them, but each are a part. 4. And though the Bodies of the members are visible, and their Worshipping actions Visible, and their Profession audible, yet the faith Professed is not Visible; nor the Truth of their Profession, or of their Christianity, or Church; Truth being the object of the Intellect, and not of sense. 5. And though the true members of the Church do know the true Church, and so it is apparent unto them, yet most that are not members of it, do not know it. Arians and Mahometans know us to be men professing such and such Articles of faith: but they know not that to be the true faith, nor us to be the true Church, but judge the contrary.

Prop. 3. We are Agreed that this Catholick Church in regard of the outward Profession of this Inward Faith and Holiness, and in regard of the discernable numbers of persons making this Profession, hath ever been visible, since first it began to be visible: And that the visibility hath never had any intercision. If some Protestanss say otherwise, it's clear that this is all that by the common judgement of Protestants is maintained, viz. That Christians, and the Catholick Church containing the Professing Christians through the world, have ever since their first planting had a visible being; but yet 1. That the Visibility was not such but that Hereticks (as the Arrians did) might make a controversie of it, whether they, or the true Christians were the Church indeed, and by their greater numbers or Power might blind men, that they should not see which was the true Church. 2. And that in the Catholick Church some parts may