church visible

noun

, Theology.

First recorded in 1555–65

But the pinch lies in this, Whether there be any government in the Church visible of divine right?

It is to the fellowship of the Church visible that the members of the Church of the first-born are drawn.

But he was betrayed, as others have been, by confounding the Church visible with the Church invisible.

This applies not only to the Church invisible, but to the Church visible too.

It was quite calm, only spotted with sparkles of light; the church visible.

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