There is scarse one worde of all this true, and surely I muche maruell that you dare be so bolde so manifestlie to speake against your owne conscience & knowledge. I haue before sufficiently proued all that is here by you auouched, to be cleane con∣trary for the most part. It shall be therefore sufficient, as briefly now to answer, as you do propound. Demetrius was Byshop of all the dioces in Egypt and Alexandria.* 1.1 Euseb. lib. 6. cap. 1. Cyprian was Byshop of Carthage, Numidia, Mauritania, Cyprian lib. 4. epist. 8. Timothie being Byshop had the gouernment almost of the whole countrie of Asia, as Chrysostome declareth vpon the. 1. Tim. 5. and. 2. Tim. 4. Titus was Byshop of ye whole Ile of Creta, as the same Chrysost. testifyeth ad Tit. 1. I〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 aue before by sundry* 1.2 examples and testimonies, by diuers councels, and especially the councell of Nice, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the vanitie & vntruth of this that is here affirmed, that is, that there was one Byshop in euery parish and congregation: and the words of Cyprian and Ierome be cleane 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉rary: for they both make a difference betwene a Byshop, to whome the gouern∣ment of many pastors is committed, and a pastor that hath but one seuerall flocke or charge. For further vnderstanding whereof, I referre ye Reader to that, which is spo∣ken before.
The byshops haue now as seuerall churches to preache and minister the sacra∣ments in, as they had then. They haue no more authoritie in gouernment now, than they had at that time, nor so much: and yet if they had more authoritie than they ey∣ther haue now, or had then, I thinke it were more for the commoditie of the Church,