THE SECOND BOOK

THE FIRST CHAPTER

The Messenger recapitulating certain things before proved and for his part agreeing that the church of Christ cannot in any necessary article of the faith fall in any damnable error, doth put in doubt and question which is the very church of Christ, alleging that they peradventure whom we call heretics will say that themselves is the church, and we not. Whereof the author showeth the contrary, declaring whereby we may know that they cannot be the church.

AFTER dinner we walked into the garden, and there shortly sitting in an arbour began to go forth in our matter, desiring him to show what thing might that be that made our long

forenoon’s process frustrate and left us as uncertain as we began.