Two-fold Meaning of the Word--Different Synonyms for the Term--Form of a Church--Of the Tabernacle--The Foundation, how to be laid--To Point East, and Why--The Spiritual Church, how Built up--Of Cement--What Arms the Spiritual Church Employeth--Of the Materials of the Tabernacle--Of Shittim Wood--Analogy of a Church with the Human Body--Of what the Spiritual Church consisteth--Of its Foundations--Of the Walls--Of the Choir--Of Apses--Of the Cloister Court--Of the Towers--Of the Cock--Of the Pinnacles--Of the Windows--Of the Lattice Work--Of the Doors--Of the Piers--Of the Beams--Of the Roof--Of the Stalls--Of the Pulpit--Of the Rood Loft--Of the Hours--Of the Sanctuary--Of the Sacristy--Of the Roof Tiles--Of the Lights--Of the Crosses--Of the Cloister--Of the Bishop's Throne--Why we go together to Church--Of the Separation of the Women from the Men--Of the Covering of Women's Heads--Of Speech in Church--Of Immunity for Malefactors--Why Churches may be rebuilt in other Places. 1. First of all, let us consider a church [Footnote 118] and its parts. The word church hath two meanings: the one, a material building, wherein the divine offices are celebrated: the other, a spiritual fabric, which is the collection of the faithful. The Church, _that_ is the people forming it, is assembled by its ministers, and collected together into {13} one place by 'Him who maketh men to be of one mind in an house.' [Footnote 119]For as the material church is constructed from the joining together of various stones, so is the spiritual Church by that of various men. [Footnote 118: It has been found advisable to print the word church in the following pages with a great or a small initial letter, according as 'The Blessed Company of all Faithful People,' or the material building, were intended.] [Footnote 119: Psalm lxviii (_Exsurgat Deus_), 6.] 2. The Greek _ecclesia_ is in Latin translated by convocation because it calleth men to itself: the which title doth better befit the spiritual than the material church. The material typifieth the spiritual Church: as shall be explained when we treat of its consecration. [Footnote 120] Again, the Church is called Catholic, that is universal, because it hath been set up in, or spread over, all the world, because the whole multitude of the faithful ought to be in one congregation, or because in the Church is laid up the doctrine necessary for the instruction of all. [Footnote 120: See below, chapter vi.] 3. It is also called in Greek _synagoga_, in Latin _congregatio_, which was the name chosen by the Jews for their places of worship: for to them the term synagogue more appropriately belongeth, though it be also applied to a church. But the Apostles never call a church by this title, perhaps for the sake of distinction.