Chapter 14: The Congregacion or Churche
The Congregacion or Churche
Also we holde and beleue that the churche, whiche is the congregacion & eleccion of all holy men, whiche also is the spouse of Christ whom he shall presente without spot vnto his father washynge it in his owne blode, is of suche lyuely stones aforesayd layde vpo this lyuely rocke on this maner..n he whiche churche howbeit, it be euydently knowne onely to the eyes of God, yet be certayne eternall ryghtes institute by Christ and be one publyke and lawful teachynge, teachynge of the worde of god, not onely is it spyed and knowen, but it is also so constituted by them that without the cerimonies there is no man reconed to be of it, excepte it be by a synguler preuilege of God