You are deceyued: it is in the first tome of Councels, and therefore the more like it is, that you take the former Councel to be the first Councel of Nice: But such dealing is vsuall with you: if you had ment playnely, you would haue sayd, the seconde Coun∣cell of Nice, and not simply the Councell of Nice, whiche argueth either that you were deceyued your selfe, or else sought to deceyue others.
This place of Damasus is nothing at all to your purpose, which you might easi∣ly* 1.1 haue perceyued, if you had red that Epistle. For he onely there speaketh agaynst suche as were called Chorepiscopi, who were in degrée inferiour to Bishops, and yet did they despise to be counted no better than Priests. There were certayne Bishops in Damasus time, that gaue them selues wholly to idlenesse and pleasure, and cōmit∣ted their office to suche, as were called Chorepiscopi, as it is euident in that Epistle: neyther dothe he meane any other charge than consecrating of Priests, Deacons, and virgins, imposition of hands, blessings, erecting of aulters, dedicating of Churches, and suche like, whiche were taken properly to perteyne to the Bishop, and yet not∣withstanding was by some Bishops passed ouer to such Chorepiscopi. This negligence of bishops in such matters Damasus cōdēneth, togither with ye office of Chorepiscopus.