Five disputations of church-government and worship

And here by the way let this argument be noted. Seeing its past doubt that the first sense of the word [Greek or Hebrew] is the Catus or holy Assembly it self, why should the Meeting place be so often called also Ecclesia in those times, in the borrowed sense, but only in Relation to the People there assembled? and its plain that it was but one Congregation and not many that assembled in that place: and therefore it was from that one that the Place is called Ecclesia. That it is oft so called, besides this place of Tertullian (which seems so to use the word) I refer you to Mr. Mead's exercitation of Temples, who proves it distinctly in the several Centuries. That saying of Theophilus Antiochenus ad Antolychum seems to intimate the whole that I intend [sic Deus dedit mundo qui peccatorum tempestatibus & Naufragiis jactatur, Synagogas, quas Ecclesias Sanctas N•minamus in quibus veritatis doctrina ferv•t, ad quas confugiunt veritatis studiosi, quotquot s•lvari, Deique judicium & iram evitare volunt.] So that the Churches of those times which were as Noah's Ark, and where safety was to be found for the soul, were Synagogues or Assemblies. So Tertul. de Idololatr. c. 7. pag. (mihi) 171. Tota die ad hanc partem zelus fidei peroravit, ingenuū Christianum ab Idolis in Ecclesiam venire, de adversaria officina in domum Dei venire.—] See more places of Tertullian cited by Pamelius on this place num. 29. page 177. specially see that de virg. Veland. cap. 13. p. 224.

And here by the way let this argument be noted. Seeing its past doubt that the first sence of the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is the Catus or holy Assembly it self, why should the Meeting place be so often called also Ecclesia in those times, in the borrowed sence, but only in Relation to the People there assembled? and its plain that it was but one Congregation and not many that assembled in that place: and therefore it was from that one that the Place is called Ecclesia. That it is oft so called, besides this place of Tertullian (which seems so to use the word) I refer you to Mr. Meads exercitation of Temples, who proves it distinctly in the several Centuries. That saying of Theophilus Antiochenus ad Antolychum seems to intimate the whole that I intend [sic Deus dedit mundo qui peccatorum tempestatibus & Naufragiis jactatur, Synagogas, quas Ecclesias Sanctas N•minamus in quibus veritatis doctrina fervt, ad quas confugiunt veritatis studiosi, quotquot slvari, Deique judicium & iram evitare volunt.] So that the Churches of those times which were as Noahs Ark, and where safety was to be found for the soul, were Synagogues or Assemblies. So Tertul. de Idololatr. c. 7. pag. (mihi) 171. Tota die ad hanc partem zelus fidei peroravit, ingenuū Christianum ab Idolis in Ecclesiam venire, de adversaria officina in domum Dei venire.—] See more places of Tertullian cited by Pamelius on this place num. 29. page 177. specially see that de virg. Veland. cap. 13. p. 224.