Morouer if it be necessary for the keping of vnitie in the Church of England, that one Arch∣bishop should be primate ouer all, why is it not as meete that for the keping of the whole vniuersall Churche, there should be one Archbishop or Byshop ouer all, and the like necessitie of the byshop o∣uer* 1.1 all Christendome, as of the byshop of all England, vnlesse peraduenture it be more necessary, that there should be one byshop ouer the vniuersall Church; than ouer the Church of England, for as much as it is more necessarie, that peace should be kept, and schismes be auoyded in the vniuer∣sall Church than in the particular church of England.
This is the reason of the Papistes for the Popes supremacie, and you haue bo∣rowed* 1.2 it from them. Wherefore I will answere you as M. Caluine answereth them in his Institutions Cap. 8. Sect. 95. That which is profitable in one nation, cannot by any reason be extended to the whole worlde, for there is great difference betwixt the whole world and one nation. And a little after, it is euen as though a man should affirme, that the whole world may be gouerned by one King, bycause one fielde or towne hath but one ruler or Mayster. And agayne, that which is of force among fewe, may not by and by be drawne to the whole worlde, to the gouernment whereof no one man is sufficient. M. Nowell also answereth Dorman (making the same reason that you doe) in these* 1.3 woordes. To your third question (sayeth he speaking to Dorman) the lewdest of all why the same proportion may not be kepte betweene the Pope and the reste of the Byshops of Christendome, that is betweene the Archbishop and the other Bishops of the prouince? I answere, you might as well aske, why the same proportion may not be kepte betweene one Emperour of all the worlde, and all the Princes of the worlde to be vnder him, that is be∣tweene the King of one realme and his Lordes vnder him. The reason that the same pro∣portion can not be kept, is first, bycause there is no lyke proportion at all betweene the abi∣litie of mans witte and power (being but weake) to gouerne one prouince, and his abilitie to gouerne the whole Churche, and all Churches throughout the worlde, which no one man can haue knowledge of, much lesse can haue abilitie to rule them. Secondly you can bring no such proportion of antiquitie for your Pope to be cheefe head of the whole Churche, as is to be shewed for Archbishops to be the chiefe Bishops in their owne prouinces, &c. Hitherto M. Nowell. I marueyle that you will ioyne with the Papistes in so grosse a reason.