_T. H._ The word _holy_ I had defined in the words which his Lordship here sets down, and by the use thereof in the Scripture made it manifest, that that was the true signification of the word. There is nothing in learning more difficult than to determine the signification of words. That difficulty excuses him. He says that _holiness_, in my sense, is a relation, not a quality. All the learned agree that quality is an accident: so that in attributing to God _holiness_, as a quality, he contradicts himself. For he has in the beginning of this his discourse denied, and rightly, that any accident is in God; saying, whatsoever is in God is the Divine substance. He affirms also, that to attribute any accident to God, is to deny the simplicity of the Divine substance. And thus his Lordship makes God, as I do, a corporeal spirit. Both here, and throughout, he discovers so much ignorance, as had he charged me with error only, and not with atheism, I should not have thought it necessary to answer him. _J. D._ We are taught in our creed to believe the catholic or universal church. But T. H. teacheth us the contrary: _That if there be more Christian churches than one, all of them together are not one church personally_. And more plainly: _Now if the whole number of Christians be not contained in one commonwealth, they are not one person, nor is there an universal church, that hath any authority over them_. And again: _The universal church is not one person, of which it can be said, that it hath done, or decreed, or ordained, or excommunicated, or absolved_. This doth quite overthrow all the authority of general councils. All other men distinguish between the church and the commonwealth; only T. H. maketh them to be one and the same thing. _The commonwealth of Christian men, and the church of the same, are altogether the same thing, called by two names for two reasons. For the matter of the church and of the commonwealth is the same, namely, the same Christian men; and the form is the same, which consisteth in the lawful power of convocating them._ And hence he concludeth, that _every Christian commonwealth is a church endowed with all spiritual authority_. And yet more fully: _The church if it be one person, is the same thing with the commonwealth of Christians; called a commonwealth, because it consisteth of men united in one person their sovereign; and a church, because it consisteth in Christian men united in one Christian sovereign_. Upon which account there was no Christian church in these parts of the world, for some hundreds of years after Christ, because there was no Christian sovereign.