If you meane the first Tyronense Concilium, there is no such thing to be found in the 5. Canon of it, nor in the whole Councell. The fifth Canon conteyneth a profitable ad∣monition for you and such as you are, for it forbiddeth vnder the payne of excōmu∣nication, that any beyng a Clearke should leaue of his calling, and become a lay man. If you meane the seconde Tyronense Concilium. I make you the like answere. Belike your collector hath deceyued you, but what if it were so? This onely might be gathe∣red, that vnlesse Bishops then had bene welthie, there should not haue néeded a decrée against feasting. If our Bishops should make the like now, it would be thought they did it for sparing. And I thinke that, and such like Canons méete not onely for Bi∣shops, but for all states and degrées of men.
Riches and costly furniture bée no impediment to a godly man for doing his duetie. And in suche externall thinges the condition of the time, and state of the Countrie is to be obserued. Lette our Bishoppes be compared with them in truthe of doctrine, in honestie of life, in diligent walking in theyr vocation, and in knowledge (I speake of the moste in bothe ages) and I thinke the difference will not be so greate, but that they maye bothe knowe one another, and very well