Chap. 2. the. 23. Diuision.
And there is great (*) 1.1 likelyhoode, that the Archbyshop which Ambrose maketh mention of was no other than he which for the time ruled the action wherin Byshops were ordeyned, and after the action ended, had no more authoritie than the rest.
If you had read any auncient storie or father: yea if you had but perused M. Cal∣uines Institutions the. 8. Chapter, or any writer intreating of this matter, you would neuer haue vttered this vaine coniecture, nor shewed so manifest a token of greate ignorance, and no reading. For it shall appeare by sufficient testimonie, that neyther the name nor office of an Archbyshop was any thing at all straimge in this time. And the authors of the Centuries: Cent. 4. can tell you that Ambrose himselfe was Metro∣politanus* 1.2 plurium coniunctarum ecclesiarum administratione fungens, A Metropolitane gouer∣ning many Churches adioyning together.
Your coniecture that this Archbishop should be no other, than he which for the time ruled the action, wherin Byshops were ordeined and after the action ended, had no more authoritie than the rest, is a méere phansie of your owne, contrarie to all authoritie, and withoute any grounde or similitude of reason, and yet you often repeate it, and make it the foundati∣on of this your building. But let vs heare your coniectures.