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Of schism the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the…Of schisme the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the…
Of schism the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the present differences in religion. / By John Owen D.D.Of schisme the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the present differences in religion. / By John Owen D.D.
Oxford: printed by L.L. for T. Robinson, 1657
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That the asserting the Catholic Church in this sense is no new Apprehension,1 is known to them, who have at all looked backward to what was past before us. Omnibus consideratis (saith Austin) puto me non temere dicere, alios ita esse in domo dei, ut ips• etiam sint eadem domus Dei, quae dicitur aedificari supra petram, quae unica columba appellatur, quae sponsa pulchra sine macula, & ruga, & hortus conclusus, fons signatus, pattens aquae vivae, paradisus cum fructu pomorum, alios autem ita constat esse in domo, ut non pertineant ad compagem domus— Sed sicut esse palea dicitur in frumentis. de Bapt. lib. 1. cap. 51. who is herein followed by not a few of the Papists: hence saith Biel. accipitur etiam Ecclesia pro tota multitudine praedestinatorum. in Canon. Miss. Lec. 22. In what sense this Church is invisible, was before declared. Men elected, redeemed, justified, as such are not visible, for that which makes them so, is not: But this hinders not but that they may be so upon other ⟨p. 92⟩Consideration; sometimes to more, sometimes to fewer, yea they are so always to some. Those that are may be seen; and when we say they are visible, we do not intend that they are actually seen by any that we know,2 but that they may be so.
That the asserting the Catholick Church in this sence is no new Apprehension,1 is known to them, who have at all looked backward to what was past before us. Omnibus consideratis (saith Austin) puto me non temere dicere, alios ita esse in domo dei, ut ips• etiam sint eadem domus Dei, quae dicitur aedificari supra petram, quae unica columba appellatur, quae sponsa pulchra sine macula, & ruga, & hortus conclusus, fons signatus, patens aquae vivae, paradisus cum fructu pomorum, alios autem ita constat esse in domo, ut non pertineant ad compagem domus— Sed sicut esse palea dicitur in frumentis. de Bapt. lib. 1. cap. 51. who is herein followed by not a few of the Papists: hence saith Biel. accipitur etiam Ecclesia pro tota multitudine praedestinatorum. in Canon. Miss. Lec. 22. In what sence this Church is invisible, was before declared. Men elected, redeemed, justifyed, as such are not visible, for that which makes them so, is not: But this hinders not but that they may be so upon other