M. Hardinge.
Power is double,* 1.1 the one Ordinary, the other by priuilege or Extraordinary. Ordinary Power is that whiche contineweth in one and the same course for euer. Accordinge to whiche Power Pe∣ter was Head of the Churche, and his Successours after him. Power by Priuilege, or Extraordi∣nary is that whiche is geuen besides the common course by waie of dispensation. As where the o∣ther Apostles shoulde haue receiued Ordinarely theire Power from Peter, as who had commission ouer al, bothe Lambes and Sheepe, amonge whome the Apostles had theire place: Chrisie by special grace preuenteth ordinarie course, and maketh them for the time, and in their Persons equal with Peter in the office of Apostleship. Thus concerninge ordinarie Power, Peter is Head of the Apo∣stles, and by that reason they are subiecte vnto him, as Sheepe vnto their Shepheard. But by Pri∣uilege true it is, as S. Cyprian saithe, They were of like power amonge them selues.* 1.2 Nowe what oddes there is berwixt an Ordinarie auctoritie of iudginge geuen to any Officer, for him selfe, and his Successours in that Office for euer, and a special Commission for life time onely: so mutche is berwixte Peter and the reste of the Apostles.