This Enmity Christ came to heal, and to remove, by preaching, and by giving peace unto men, working the hearts of his people to be at unity and peace one with another; in which respect Christ saith of his Church, My Dove, my undefiled is but one, Cant, 6. 9. Now a thing may be said to be one two manner of ways; there is unum per unitatem, when a thing is so one, as that it doth not any way consist of many, as God is one by the absolute simplicity of his Nature, without any diversity of part and part, power and act, matter and form, subject and accident, being and not being: There is likewise unum per unionem, ⟨p. 29⟩when one thing is constituted, and made up of many things united and joined together, and thus the Church is One. hWe being many, saith the Apostle, are one bread, and one body. And again, as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. In this respect it is compared sometimes to ani Army, made up of many Soldiers, ordered into Companies and Regiments, under the Command of one General, called thek Captain of the Host of the Lord, and thel Captain of our Salvation. Sometimes tom a City compacted together, and accurately proportioned in all the parts and measures thereof: Sometimes to the Tabernacle of the Congregation, whereinn divers Curtains were coupled and joined together, by loops and taches, into one Sanctuary: Sometimes to the Temple, owherein many goodly stones were framed and fitted into a Magnificent Structure, in which respect the Church isp called the House ⟨p. 30⟩of God, the Household of Faith, the qwhole Family of Heaven and Earth, a rbuilding fitly framed together, and growing unto a holy Temple in the Lord: Sometimes to a sVine, consisting of one root and many branches; and to a tbody, wherein many members are conjoined under one Head, and animated by one Soul. Thus the Church is One. And albeit we frequently read in the pluralu of the Churches of the Saints, the Churches of Asia, of Macedonia, of Galatia, of Syria and Cilicia, yet all these are members of one and the same Catholic Church, as many Cities of one Kingdom, and many houses of one City.
This Enmity Christ came to heal, and to remove, by preaching, and by giving peace unto men, working the hearts of his people to be at unity and peace one with another; in which respect Christ saith of his Church, My Dove, my undefiled is but one, Cant, 6. 9. Now a thing may be said to be one two manner of ways; there is unum per unitatem, when a thing is so one, as that it doth not any way consist of many, as God is one by the absolute simplicity of his Nature, without any diversity of part and part, power and act, matter and form, subject and accident, being and not being: There is likewise unum per unionem, ⟨p. 29⟩when one thing is constituted, and made up of many things united and joyned together, and thus the Church is One. hWe being many, saith the Apostle, are one bread, and one body. And again, as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. In this respect it is compared sometimes to ani Army, made up of many Souldiers, ordered into Companies and Regiments, under the Command of one General, called thek Captain of the Host of the Lord, and thel Captain of our Salvation. Sometimes tom a City compacted together, and accurately proportioned in all the parts and measures thereof: Sometimes to the Tabernacle of the Congregation, whereinn divers Curtains were coupled and joyned together, by loops and taches, into one Sanctuary: Sometimes to the Temple, owherein many goodly stones were framed and fitted into a Magnificent Structure, in which respect the Church isp called the House ⟨p. 30⟩of God, the Houshold of Faith, the qwhole Family of Heaven and Earth, a
- h1 Cor. 10. 17. 12. 12.
- iCan. 6. 10.
- kJosh. 5. 14.
- lHeb. 2. 10.
- mPsal. 132. 3 Rev. 21. 10.—21.
- nExod. 26. 6.
- o1 Reg. 5. 17.
- p1 Tim. 3. 15 Heb. 3. 6.
- qEph. 3. 15.
- rEph. 2. 21.
- sJoh. 15. 5.
- tRom. 12. 4. 5. Eph. 1. 22, 23.
- u2 Cor. 81. Gal. 1. 2. Act. 15. 41. Rev. 1. 4.
