Chap. 2. the. 26. Diuision.
Sozomenus lykewyse Lib. 2. of his Ecclesiasticall historie cap. 8. calleth Symeon Archbishop of Seleucia, and Basile the greate Metro∣politane of Cappadocia. Lib. 3. cap. 16.
Basill you saye, the great Metropolitane of Cappadocia. I haue shewed what the woorde Metropolitane signifyeth, and howe there was not then, suche a Metropolitane as wee haue now, and as the Admonition speaketh agaynst. You playe as he whithe is noted, as none of the wysest among the marchauntes, whyche thought that euery shippe that approched the hauen was his ship. For so you thinke that wheresoeuer you reade Metropolitane or Archebishoppe▪ foorthwith you thinke, there is your Metropolitane, or your Archebishop, where as it shall ap∣peare, that besydes the name, they are no more lyke, than a bishop with vs is lyke a minister.
What this worde Metropolitane signifyeth, what office and iurisdiction he had, is before sufficiently declared, and may more at large appeare in the con∣stitutions of Iustinian. Lykewyse whether our Metropolitans in office any thing at all differ from them. Surely he that shall well consider your vnapte answeres and your vtopicall iestes, may thinke that you weare the liuerie of those marchantes you talke of, and may verie wel sayle in their ships.