Illiricus his treatise that you speake of, doth nothing preiudice the cause that I haue in hand, touching the authorities there alleadged: for the question is not whether it hath bin so or no, but whether it be conuenient and profitable for the Church to haue it so now. The reasons that Illiricus vseth, beside his authorities, are of no great force to proue either necessitie or conueniencie, of such elections in this Church, as the state is now.
You do well to confesse the help that you had by Illiricus, for it could not haue bin* 1.1 vnespyed, séeing you haue almost verbatìm drawen all the authorities, and reasons that you vse in this cause out of him. And truly I maruell with what face you can so opprobriously obiect vnto me, other mens collections, and lacke of reading the ancient writers, when as it is euident that your whole booke consisteth of other mens notes, and col∣lections: and that you your selfe haue scarce read any one of the Authours that you haue alledged, 18. authorities at the least you haue borrowed of Illiricus, in this cause, besides certayne other reasons.
You referre the reader to the. 6. &. 7. booke of Eusebius, where you say both the formes of elections in those tunes are described, and the customes of the peoples choise set foorth, and diuers examples of the elections of the people and Cleargie. &c. But the reader shoulde haue bene something beholding to you, if you had named the Chapters as well as you haue done the bookes: Howebeit you do very politikely, to referre youre readers to the whole bookes, which you are sure the most of them cannot, and of those that can, many will* 1.2 not peruse: but you haue not dealt faithfully, for it is not to be founde in any parte of these two bookes, where the customes of the peoples choyse is set foorthe, or any example of the people and Cleargies election confirmed by the Christian Magistrate. Nor yet any example of any Byshop of Constantinople. The contrary rather may be collected in sundrye places. In the sixte Booke Eusebius declareth that in the absence of Narcissus (by∣cause it was not knowne where he was) The gouernoures of the Churches