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One Objection I once heard a Learned Anabaptist cast in our way, viz. There may be a Visible Church of hypocrites: therefore the Mystical and Visible may be two. Answ. But the Question was of the Catholic Church, and not of a particular Church. We confess that some members of the Catholic Church are Mystical and Visible in the several respects before mentioned: and that some are Visible and not Mystical, or as Bellarmine well calls them, Dead Members, and not Living; and that the Church as Visible, is more comprehensive then the Church as Regenerate, or Invisible, and yet all but One Church, though it have more members in it in one respect then in another: And we confess that its possible for twenty or an hundred of these Dead members to constitute a particular Church by themselves (though it is not usual for Visible Churches to be without Living members:) and so there may be a particular Visible Dead Member (Analogically called a Member,) or a particular Visible Church that is thus Dead; and these be parts of the Catholic Church as Visible. But yet there is not two Catholic Churches, One Visible, and the other Invisible, one alive and the other Dead. In a Corn field there are, 1. Good Corn. 2. Stricken, blasted Corn, that hath a name and show, but in deed no Corn. 3. Tares, darnel, cockle, and such weeds. It is called, A Field as it containeth them all: It is called [a Corn field] only from the Corn. The Univocal proper parts of a Corn field, is the Corn only: The Visible and Analogical parts are also the blasted ears: The darnel and cockle are no parts, but noxious accidents. There are not two fields of Corn, one of true Corn, and the of other blasted ears: And yet the Corn field, taken largely and Analogically, hath more parties in it then true Corn: and you may perhaps have some particular sheaves that are wholly of that which is blasted: which you will call a sheaf of Corn Analogically only: but a sheaf of weeds you will not at all call a sheaf of Corn. Even so in the Catholic Church, there are sincere Christians which are true and living members; and there are Hypocrites which are Analogically members; and there are locally mixed many that by denying essential points of the Christian ⟨p. 398⟩faith, or by notorious Impiety, do declare themselves to be weeds, and no members of the Church at all.

One Objection I once heard a Learned Anabaptist cast in our way, viz. There may be a Visible Church of hypocrites: therefore the Mystical and Visible may be two. Answ. But the Question was of the Catholick Church, and not of a particular Church. We confess that some members of the Catholick Church are Mystical and Visible in the several respects before mentioned: and that some are Visible and not Mystical, or as Bellarmine well calls them, Dead Members, and not Living; and that the Church as Visible, is more comprehensive then the Church as Regenerate, or Invisible, and yet all but One Church, though it have more members in it in one respect then in another: And we confess that its possible for twenty or an hundred of these Dead members to constitute a particular Church by themselves (though it is not usual for Visible Churches to be without Living members:) and so there may be a particular Visible Dead Member (Analogically called a Member,) or a particular Visible Church that is thus Dead; and these be parts of the Catholick Church as Visible. But yet there is not two Catholick Churches, One Visible, and the other Invisible, one alive and the other Dead. In a Corn field there are, 1. Good Corn. 2. Stricken, blasted Corn, that hath a name and shew, but in deed no Corn. 3. Tares, darnell, cockle, and such weeds. It is called, A Field as it conteineth them all: It is called [a Corn field] only from the Corn. The Univocal proper parts of a Corn field, is the Corn only: The Visible and Analogical parts are also the blasted ears: The darnel and cockle are no parts, but noxious accidents. There are not two fields of Corn, one of true Corn, and the of other blasted ears: And yet the Corn field, taken largely and Analogically, hath more parties in it then true Corn: and you may perhaps have some particular sheavs that are wholly of that which is blasted: which you will call a sheaf of Corn Analogically only: but a sheaf of weeds you will not at all call a sheaf of Corn. Even so in the Catholick Church, there are sincere Christians which are true and living members; and there are Hypocrites which are Analogically members; and there are locally mixed many that by denying essential points of the Christian