XII. Of the Church.

We do not concede to them that they are the Church, and [in

truth] they are not [the Church]; nor will we listen to those

things which, under the name of Church, they enjoin or forbid.

For, thank God, [to-day] a child seven years old knows what

the Church is, namely, the holy believers and lambs who hear

the voice of their Shepherd. For the children pray thus: I

believe in one holy [catholic or] Christian Church. This

holiness does not consist in albs, tonsures, long gowns, and

other of their ceremonies devised by them beyond Holy

Scripture, but in the Word of God and true faith.

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