Chap. 6. the. 16. Diuision.
You borrowed these arguments from the very Papistes, who by* 1.1 the selfe same reasons goe about to proue the Popes supremacie, for thus they argue
Among the Israclites there was one highe Priest, which had au∣thoritie ouer the rest, therefore there must be one high Priest (which is the Pope) ouer the whole Church of Christ. Master Caluine in his Institutions, chap. 8. dothe answere this reason on this sorte:* 1.2 Quod in vna natione fuit vtile, id in vniuersum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ext〈1 line〉〈1 line〉dere nulla ratio cogit: imò gentis vnius & totius orbis longè diuersa erit ratio. That vvhiche is profitable to one nation, can not by any reason be extended to the vvhole vvorld, for there is great difference betvvixt the vvhole vvorld and one nation. And a little after: Perinde enim est acsi quis contendat, totum mundum à praefecto vno debere regi, quia ager vnus non plures praefectos habeat: It is euen as thoughe a man shoulde affyrme, that the vvhole vvorld may be gouerned of one King, bicause one fielde or tovvne hath but one ruler or master.
After M. Doctor translateth out of M. Caluine the Papistes reasons for the supremacie of the Pope, and M. Caluines solutions. For what purpose he knoweth, I can not tell, vnlesse it be to blotte paper, I know not what he should meane, and the quarell also whyche (a) 1.3 he picketh, to translate thys place, is yet more straūge. For he sayth, that the authors of the Admonition borrowed their arguments from the Papists, when the contrarie is true, that they vse the reasons whyche they of the Gospell vse agaynst the supremacie of the pope, to ouerthrowe the archebishop: And M. Doctor dothe vse reasons to defende the archebishop,(b) 1.4 whiche the Papistes vse to mayn∣teyne ye pope(c) 1.5. For M. Doctor would proue(d) 1.6 that for bycause there is one king ouer a realme, therefore there may be one Bishop ouer a prouince, and the Papistes vse the same reason to proue the Pope to be a Bishop of the whole Church. Shew now one reason that the authors of the Ad∣monition brought of the papistes, to proue that there shoulde be no archebishop. But nowe I per∣ceyue his meaning, and that is, that he thought to get some comfort for the archebishop in M. Cal∣uines solutions made vnto the papists reasons for the supremacie. And therefore he hath haled and pulled in as it were by the shoulders, this disputation betweene the protestantes and the papistes touching the supremacie. And what is it, that M. Caluine sayth for the archbishop? It hath been before shewed, what his iudgement was touching hauing one minister ouer all the ministers of a prouince, & that he doth simply condemne it in his cōmentarie vpon the fyrst chapter of the Philip. Now let it be considered, whether in these sentences he hath sayd any thyng agaynst himselfe. The