M. Hardinge. The .16. Diuision.
There is an Epistle of Theodoretus Bishop of Cyrus extant in Greeke, written to Leo Bishop of Rome: wherein we finde a worthy witnesse of the primacie of the See Apos••••like. His woordes may thus be engli••••ed. If P••ule (saith he) the preacher of the truthe, and trumpet of the ••oly Ghoste, ranne to Peter, to bringe from him a determination, and declaration, for them, who at An∣tioche were in argument, and contention concerninge liuinge after Moyses law: muche more wee, who are but smal, and vile, shal runne vnto your throne Apostolike, that of you wee may haue salue for the sores of the Ch••••ches, (there folow these woordes) 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,* 1.1 Id est, per omnia enim vobis conuenit primas tenere: That is to say, For in al thinges (perteininge to Faith, or Religion, so he meaneth) it is meete, that you haue the chiefe doo∣inges, or that you haue the Primacie. For your high seate, or throne is endewed with many preroga∣tiues, and priuileges.