Field: Of the Church: Volume One:
OF THE CHURCH.................................................................................. 13
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE....................................................................... 15
End Notes........................................................................................... 21
TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE............................................................. 22
FIRST BOOK: Name, Nature, and Definition of the Church........................ 29
Chapter 1: Church Consisting Of Men And Angels In The Day Of Their
Creation 30
End Notes........................................................................................... 34
Chapter 2: Of The Calling Of Grace,
Whereby God Called Out Both Men And Angels From The Rest Of His Creatures, To
Be Unto Him A Holy Church: And Of Their Apostasy.................... 36
End Notes........................................................................................... 38
Chapter 3: Church, Consisting Of
Those Angels That Continued In Their First Estate By Force Of Grace Upholding
Them, And Men Redeemed................................................................ 41
End Notes........................................................................................... 43
Chapter 4: Church Of The Redeemed...................................................... 46
End Notes........................................................................................... 49
Chapter 5: Of The Christian Church........................................................ 51
End Notes........................................................................................... 55
Chapter 6: Of The Definition Of The
Church........................................... 58
Chapter 7: Of The Divers Sorts Of
Them That Pertain To The Church..... 59
End Notes........................................................................................... 60
Chapter 8: Of Their Meaning Who Say
That The Elect Only Are Of The Church. 62
End Notes........................................................................................... 63
Chapter 9: Of The Difference Of
Them That Are In, And Of The Church. 65
End Notes........................................................................................... 66
Chapter 10: Of The Visible And
Invisible Church.................................... 67
End Notes........................................................................................... 70
Chapter 11: Of The Divers Titles Of
The Church, And How They Are Verified Of It. 73
End Notes........................................................................................... 75
Chapter 12: Of The Divers Sorts Of
Them That Have Not Yet Entered The Church. 78
End Notes........................................................................................... 79
Chapter 13: Of The First Sort Of
Them, That After Their Admission Into The Church Of God, Do Voluntarily Depart,
And Go Out From The Same.................................................................. 81
End Notes........................................................................................... 82
Chapter 14: Of The Second Sort Of
Them, That Voluntarily Go Out From The People Of God. 83
End Notes........................................................................................... 86
Chapter 15: Of Them Whom The Church
Casteth Out By Excommunication. 89
End Notes........................................................................................... 92
Chapter 16: Of The Errors That Are
And Have Been, Touching The Use Of The Discipline Of The Church, In Punishing
Offenders............................................................................................. 94
End Notes........................................................................................... 96
Chapter 17: Of The Considerations
Moving The Church To Use Indulgence Towards Offenders. 98
End Notes........................................................................................... 99
Chapter 18: Of Their Damnable
Pride, Who Condemn All Those Churches Wherein Want Of Due Execution Of
Discipline, And Imperfections Of Men, Are Found............................................. 101
Ene Notes......................................................................................... 103
THE SECOND BOOK: CONCERNING THE
NOTES OF THE CHURCH. 105
Chapter 1: Of The Nature Of Notes
Of Difference, And Their Several Kinds. 106
Chapter 2: Of The Divers Kinds Of
Notes, Whereby The True Church Is Discerned From Other Societies Of Men In The
World............................................................................................ 109
End Notes......................................................................................... 111
Chapter 3: Of Bellarmine’s Reasons
Against The Notes Of The Church Assigned By Us. 113
End Notes......................................................................................... 116
Chapter 4: Of Stapleton’s Reasons
Against Our Notes Of The Church.. 118
End Notes......................................................................................... 124
Chapter 5: Of Their Notes Of The
Church, And First Of Antiquity........ 128
End Notes......................................................................................... 131
Chapter 6: Of Succession..................................................................... 132
End Notes......................................................................................... 134
Chapter 7: Of The Third Note
Assigned By Them, Which Is Unity........ 136
End Notes......................................................................................... 137
Chapter 8: Of Universality.................................................................... 138
End Notes......................................................................................... 140
Chapter 9: Of The Name And Title Of
Catholic.................................... 141
End Notes......................................................................................... 145
THE THIRD BOOK: OF THE TRUE CHURCH
DEMONSTRATED BY THE NOTES BEFORE AGREED UPON.................................................................................................................. 147
Chapter 1: Of The Division Of The
Christian World Into The Western Or Latin Church, And The Oriental Or East
Church...................................................................................................... 148
End Notes......................................................................................... 197
Chapter 2: Of The Harsh And Unadvised
Censure Of The Romanists, Condemning All These Churches As Schismatical And
Heretical................................................................................ 207
End Notes......................................................................................... 208
Chapter 3: Of The Nature Of Heresy;
Of The Divers Kinds Of Things Wherein Men Err; And What Pertinacy It Is That
Maketh An Heretic................................................................................ 209
End Notes......................................................................................... 211
Chapter 4: Of Those Things Which
Everyone Is Bound Expressly To Know And Believe; And Wherein No Man Can Err
Without Note Of Heresy...................................................................... 214
End Notes......................................................................................... 217
Chapter 5: Of The Nature Of Schism,
And The Kinds Of It; And, That It In No Way Appeareth That The Churches Of
Greece, Etc. Are Heretical Or In Damnable Schism....................... 219
End Notes......................................................................................... 221
Chapter 6: Of The Latin Church,
That It Continued The True Church Of God Even Til Our Time: And, That The
Errors We Condemn Were Not The Doctrines Of That Church.......................... 223
End Notes......................................................................................... 225
Chapter 7: Of The Several Points Of
Difference Between Us And Our Adversaries, Wherein Some In The Church Erred,But
Not The Whole Church......................................................... 226
Chapter 8: Of The True Church,
Which, And Where It Was Before Luther’s Time. 229
End Notes......................................................................................... 231
Chapter 9: Of The Apostacy Of Some
In The Church........................... 233
End Notes......................................................................................... 235
Chapter 10: Of Their Error Who Say,
Nothing Can Be Amiss In The Church, Either In Respect Of Doctrine Or
Discipline.......................................................................................................... 240
End Notes......................................................................................... 241
Chapter 11: Of The Causes Of The
Manifold Confusions And Evils Formerly Found In The Church. 242
End Notes......................................................................................... 244
Chapter 12: Of The Desire And
Expectation Of A Reformation Of The Corrupt State Of The Church: And, That The
Alteration Which Hath Beem Is A Reformation............................................ 245
End Notes......................................................................................... 248
Chapter 13: Of The First Reason
Brought To Prove That The Church Of Rome Holdeth The Faith First Delivered,
Because The Precise Time Wherein Errors Began In It Cannot Be Noted. 250
End Notes......................................................................................... 253
Chapter 14: Of Divers Particular
Errors Which Have Been In The Church, Whose First Authors Cannot Be Named.............................................................................................................. 254
End Notes......................................................................................... 255
Chapter 15: Of The Second Reason
Brought In To Prove That They Hold The Ancient Faith, Because Our Men,
Dissenting From Them, Confess They Dissent From The Fathers; Where Sundry
Instances Are Examined. 257
End Notes......................................................................................... 262
Chapter 16: Of Limbus Patrum,
Concupiscence, And Satisfaction; Touching Which Calvin Is Falsely Charged To
Confess That He Dissenteth From The Fathers................................................... 265
End Notes......................................................................................... 268
Chapter 17: Of Prayer For The Dead;
And Merit.................................. 270
End Notes......................................................................................... 273
Chapter 18: Of The Fathers’
Strictness In Admitting Men Into The Ministry; Of Single Life; And Of Their
Severity In The Discipline Of Repentance........................................................... 275
End Notes......................................................................................... 280
Chapter19: Of The Lent Fast; Of
Laymen’s Baptism; And Of The Sacrifice Of The Mass. 285
End Notes......................................................................................... 289
Chapter 20: Of The Invocation And Adoration Of Saints, Touching Which The Century Write