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Be patient a whyle, the matter is not great, the Authors be knowne, and the* 1.1 antiquitie of them, my mynde is of the matter: and there is reason why I should〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 thus place them. Cyprian telleth the necessitie of suche superioritie, and so dothe Chrysostome: Hierome, the cause and the originall: Paule, Timothie, and Ti∣tus
be examples hereof: Ignatius and the rest are brought in as witnesses of the continuance of such offices and superioritie in the Churche, euen from the Apostles. Now first to proue the name of these offices not to be Antichristian, then to shew the necessitie of the offices, thirdly the cause, and last of all to declare the vse of the same to haue bene in the Churche euen from S. Paules time to this houre, is to kéepe a better order, than you shall be able to disorder, with all the Logike, Rhetorike, and hote Eloquence you haue.
The order ob serued in pla∣cing the au∣thorities in ye answere.