The Preservation of the Church

This Church hath been from the beginning of the world, and will be to the end thereof which is evident from this, that Christ is an eternal King, which, without subjects, cannot be. And this holy Church is preserved or supported by God against the rage of the whole world; though she sometimes (for a while) appears very small, and in the eyes of men, to be reduced to nothing; as during the perilous reign of Ahab, the Lord reserved unto him seven thousand men, who had not bowed their knees to...