In the same councell of Carthage, it was decreed that no Bishop sitting in any place shoulde suffer any Minister or Elder to stande. Nowe I will report me to themselues howe this is kept,* 1.1 and to the poore ministers which haue to do with them, and come before them.
A poore quarell: though this humilitie is to be required in all Bishops, yet is it to be vsed with discretion: for thus to deale with a proude and hawtie stomacke, were but to giue nourishment to arrogancie and contempt. It is méete that euerie man haue that honour and reuerence giuen vnto him, which his place, his office, and his person requireth. And as it is humilitie in him to remitte any part of it: euen so it is an intollerable contempt and pryde for those that be inferiours, so to looke for suche equalitie, that in the meane tyme they refuse to doe that, whiche ciuilitie, good maners, and duetie requyreth. But let all men consider those notes and tokens of your hawtie stomackes, and perswade themselues, that it woulde not bée long before you woulde chalenge the same equalitie, wyth other states and degrées in like maner.