And a great multitude was added to our Lord.—Acts 11.24.
As before (Acts 10) a few, so now great numbers of Gentiles are adjoined also to the visible Church, consisting before only of Jews. Which Church hath been ever since Christ’s Ascension notoriously seen and known: their preaching open, their Sacraments visible, their discipline visible, their heads and governors visible, the provision for their maintenance visible, the persecution visible, their dispersion visible: the heretics that went out from them, visible: the joining either of men or nations unto them, visible: their peace and rest after persecutions, visible: their governors in prison, visible: the Church prayeth for them visibly, their councils visible, their gifts and graces visible, their name (Christians) known to all the world. Of the Protestants’ invisible Church we hear not one word.
Rheims N.T. (1582), annot. on Acts. 11.24, p. 323; emph. added.
Reposted from Substack on the Feast Day of St. Scholastica, Virgin.
10 February 2026.
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