-
The Church, Chapter 7: The Roman Pontiff And The Cardinals Not The Universal Church
It has been said that Christ is the sole Head of the holy universal church and all the predestinate, past and future, are his mystical body and every one of them members of that body. It remains now briefly to examine whether the Roman church is that holy universal church, the bride of Christ.
Jan Hus • 14th Century , 15th Century • From The Church • Predestination, The Papacy, Visible and Invisible Church
-
The Church, Chapter 6: Christ The Head Of The Elect
The body of Christ is called the mystical body on account of the mystery of the heavenly marriage between Christ and the church, the body of the devil is not likewise mystical but dark, because to be joined with the devil as one of his members does not express itself directly in mystery but in the scourge.
Jan Hus • 14th Century , 15th Century • From The Church • Predestination, Visible and Invisible Church
-
The Church, Chapter 5: Good And Bad In The Church
Finally, in order to show that those least are the reprobate, who teach good things with their lips and break them with bad living, they will not only not be as the least in the eternal life in the future, but will not be there at all.
Jan Hus • 14th Century , 15th Century • From The Church • Predestination, Visible and Invisible Church
-
The Church, Chapter 4: Christ The Only Head Of The Church
Christ is the head of the holy church, in whom the fathers believed as the one who was for to come in virtue of his humanity that he might be their head in his humanity as he had always been present with them in his divinity. And in this head all the elect are united, together with the holy angels.
Jan Hus • 14th Century , 15th Century • From The Church • Predestination, Visible and Invisible Church
-
The Church, Chapter 3: All Christians Are Not Members Of The Church
For as the members compose one body to which the soul is joined, and again as each member is necessary to every other, the one helping the other in the performance of its functions, so it is true of the members of the church by virtue of the power of communion and the bond of love. Again as the members of the body keep themselves in their own function, so do also the members of the church.
Jan Hus • 14th Century , 15th Century • From The Church • Predestination, Visible and Invisible Church
-
The Church, Chapter 2: The One Universal Church Divided Into Three Parts
Therefore, the whole of Christian doctrine is involved in that prayer of the church in which we pray the bridegroom, by his coming into the flesh, that he may teach us to despise earthly things and love heavenly things — to despise, that is, to subordinate, terrestrial things in our affections and to love Christ the bridegroom above all things.
Jan Hus • 14th Century , 15th Century • From The Church • Church Dormant, Church Militant, Church Triumphant, Predestination, Visible and Invisible Church
-
The Church, Chapter 1: The Unity of the Church
The body of Christ, that is, the bride of God, is called in law the church. This is according to the apostle’s words: ‘And they twain shall be one flesh.’ This, he says, is a great sacrament in Christ and the church. For, if Christ and the church are one flesh, then certainly there is one body, one head, one bridegroom, but different elect persons, members the one of the other.
Jan Hus • 14th Century , 15th Century • From The Church • Predestination, Visible and Invisible Church