The triall of the supremacy wherein is set fourth ye unitie of christes church milita[n]t geue[n] to S. Peter and his successoures by Christe and that there ought to be one head bishop in earth Christes vicar generall ouer all hys churche militant: wyth answeres to the blasphemous obiections made agaynste the same in the late miserable yeres now paste.

¶The .lviii. obiection.

In diuerse consideracions a man may be head and chiefe, & yet ī other relatiōs or respectes inferiour & subiect. y^e chiefe tay¦ler, y^e chiefe paynter, the chiefe phisicion or surgē here in Lon¦don within y^e parishes wher e∣ueri of them doth dwel, are but takē as neyghbourlike, & may chaūce, as much inferiours, w^t¦out a••••i such preeminēce which they haue amōg their owne cō¦panies in their owne halles: so Peter chiefe & first in placing, chiefe in cōstācye & stedfastnes of minde, chiefe in feruētnes of deuociō, chiefe in preaching & godlines, but not chiefe or first in preeminēce here in y^e world to be aboue princes. &c.

¶The answere.

Peter in y^t respect or cōsidera¦ciō y^t he is christes vicar & chief heade vndernethe him here in earth, so is he heade ouer all y^e be of the same occupatiō y^t he is of (bicause the similitude depē∣deth sōwhat vpō craftes or oc¦cupatiōs) that is to say, of chri¦stes religiō. He is chefe ouer al y^• professe christ, whether he be tayler, paynter, phisiciō or sur∣gen, yea whether he be king or emperor: not y^• Peter doth cha¦lenge any seperiortye ouer an emperor or kīg bicause he is em¦peror or kīg, or ouer a phisiciō or paynter bicause he is phisici¦on or paynter, but in respect & in consideracion al they be chri¦stē mē, so are they al vnder Pe¦ter: like as y^e head phisician, the

head tayler, the head paynter, & head surgē (as it is ī thobiec∣tiō) will euer require, and that by right all that be of the same crafte science or occupation, to be vnder thē, & that w^tout any respect or cōsideraciō to riches or pouerty, to wysedome or ig¦norance