But to come to this distinction, I had thought before this time, that the Apostles had bin the (*) 1.1 chiefe builders in setting vp the Church, now I perceiue you make the archbyshops and Arch∣deacons the chiefe builders, and the Apostles vnder carpenters or common masons, to serue and to* 1.2 take the commaundement of the Archbyshop and Archdeacon. And whereas it is saide that the ministeries which S. Paule speaketh of are in the words and sacraments, binding and losing on∣ly, and that there be other whiche are besides these (occupied in the order and discipline of the Church) (of which number are Archbyshops and Archdeacons) let vs marke a little what deepe diuinitie here is.
Surely you wander you know not whether, without doubt your mind, whē you writte this, was vpō some other thing than vpon my booke. For wher haue I made this comparison betwixte the Apostles and Archbyshops? or what haue I spoken sounding that way? I would haue you to deale honestly and plainly. If you meane the booke in latin, whereof you after ward speake, the words of that booke sounding any thing this way be these. Archiepisiopi ab èpiscopis quoad ministerium non differunt (om∣nes enim paripotestate docendi, baptizandi, ligandi & soluendi praediti sunt:) sed quoad ordinem et politiam: ordinis enim & politiae causa quaedam vltra episcopos Archiepiscopis cencessa sunt. Arch∣byshops differ not from byshops in respect of the ministerie (for they are all endued with equall authoritie to teach, to baptise, to bind and lose) but in respect of order and policie. For some things are graunted to Archbyshops for order and policies sake aboue the byshops. And further answering that place to the Ephesians it saith: Apostolus eo in loco eos tantiòn ministr〈1 line〉〈1 line〉s & ministeria enumerat quae in precibus, verbo, & administratione sacramento∣rum versantur, non eorum quae ad ordinem & disciplinam instituuntur, qualia sunt Archiepiscopo∣rum & Archidiaconorum The Apostle in that place doth only recite those ministers and mi∣nisteries, which are occupied in prayer, the word and the administration of the Sacraments, not of them whiche are instituted for order and discipline, suche as are the functions of Archbyshops and Archdeacons. The which selfesame distinction for that place you vse* 1.3 in the beginning of the 64. Page of your bóoke, these only words excepted (qualia sunt Archiepiscoporum & Archidiaconorum) as I haue before shewed and your owne words declare. And I am sure these words do not make the Archbyshops and Archdeacons chiefe builders and the Apostles vnder carpenters as it pleaseth you to collect, but this is your modestie.