the Councel, euen as thei are alleged by your own Doctour Gratiā. These thei are:
Primae Sedis Episcopus non appelletur Princeps Sacerdotum, vel Summus Sacerdos, vel a∣liquid
huiusmodi: Sed tantùm, Primae Sedis Episcopus. Vniuersalis autem nec
etiam Romanus Pontifex appelletur: Let not the Bishop of any of the
Firste Sees be called the Prince of Priestes, Or the Highest Prieste, or by any other like
name: but Onely, the Bishop of the Firste see. But let not the Bishop of
Rome him selfe be called the Vniuersal Bishop. And in ye Glose there∣upon
it is noted thus, In hac Distinctione dicitur, quod Papa non debet dici V∣niuersalis:
In this Distinction it is saide, that the Pope ought not to be cal∣led
the Vniuersal Bishop.
Nowe, M. Hardinge compare our woordes, and the Councelles wordes bothe
togeather. Wée saie none otherwise, but as the Councel saithe, The Bishop
of Rome him selfe ought not to be called the Vniuersal Bishop.
Herein wée doo neither adde, nor minishe, but reporte the woordes playnely, as wée
finde them. If you had lookte better on your Booke, and would haue tried this ma∣ter,
as you saye, by your Learninge, ye might wel haue reserued these Vnciuile re∣proches
of Falsehedde to your selfe, and haue spared your Crieinge of Shame vpon
this Defender.
Touchinge, that you so pleasantly cheare your selfe with these woordes, You doo as
like to M. Iewel, as if you were his Fathers Sonne▪ I muste answeare you, as S. Augustine
sometime did the Heretique Cresconius: Serua potius Puerilia Pueris: Keepe sutche
Childishe toies to plaie with your Children. God make vs bothe like vnto our Father
that is in Heauen.
Where you saie, of your selfe onely, without farther witnesse, that this Title
is the Popes Auncient right, euer géeuen to him by al the world, I doubte not, but
the vntruthe hereof by my Former Replie, touching the same, maie soone appeare.
Certainely, when the same Title was offered to S. Gregorie, he refused it vtterly,
as none of his.
In déede, this Councel of Carthage notwithstanding, the Title of Highest Bi∣shop
was sometimes geuen, not onely to the Bishop of Rome, & other Patriarkes,
but also vnto al other Bishoppes. M. Hardinges owne Amphilochius calleth S.
Bastle Principem Sacerdotum: The Prince, or Chiefe of Bishoppes: Rufinus calleth
Athanasius, Pontificem Maximum: The Highest Bishop. Nazianzenus calleth the
same Athanasius Archisacerdotem Sacerdotum: The Chiefe Bishop of Bishoppes. La∣ctantius
calleth euery Bishoprike Summum Sacerdotiū. Likewise S. Hierome saith,
Ecclesiae Salus in Summi Sacerdotis dignitate pendet: The safetie of the Churche standeth
in the dignitie of the Highest Priest. By whiche Highest Prieste, M. Hardinge him selfe
saithe, is meante euery seueral Bishop within his owne Diocese. S. Augustine
saithe, Quid est Episcopus, nisi Primus Presbyter, hoc est, Summus Sacerdos? What is a
Bishop, but the First, or Chiefe Prieste, that is to saie, the Highest Prieste? Therefore wée
may safely spare the Pope this Title, of Highest Bishop, not as Peculiar to him
alone, as M. Hardinge imagineth, but as Common, and General to al Bishoppes.
Al that ye haue here alleged of the Iurisdiction of the Flamines, is a mere fan∣tasie▪
grounded onely vpō an vnsauery Fable of Anacletus, and Clemens. Neither
are you hable to finde, either these names, Archiflamines, or Protoflamines,
whiche here are imagined, in any Ancient allowed Writer, or any sutche Vniuer∣sal
Iurisdiction to them belonginge.
The Firste, or Principal, or Mother Sees were limited, not by the Flamines,
but by the Prince. So it is written in the Councel of Chalcedon: Quascunque