Now then, if you will restore the Church to his auncient officers, this you must do. In stead of an Archbishop, or Lorde byshop, you must make (x) 1.1 equalitie of ministers.
I haue proued before that aswell the name as office of an Archbi∣shop is both most auncient, and also most necessarie in the Church of Christ: & that this equalitie of ministers, which you require, is both flatly against the scriptures, & al auncient authoritie of councels and learned men, & the example of all Churches, euen frō Christes time, as more plainly appeareth by these wordes of M. Bucer in his booke De 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉egno Christi. Iam ex perpetua Ecclesiarum obseruatione, ab ipsis iam Apostolis videmus, visum* 1.2 & hoc esse spiritui sancto, vt inter Presbyteros, quibus Ecclesiarum procuratio potissimùm est com∣missa, vnus Ecclesiarum, & totius sacri ministerij curam gerat singularem: ea{que} cura & solicitudine cunctis praeeat alijs. Qua de causa Episcopi nomen huiusmodi summis Ecclesiarum curatoribus est peculiariter attributum. &c. Novve vve see by the perpetuall obseruation of the Churches, euen from the Apostles themselues, that it hath pleased the holy ghost, that amongst the ministers to vvhom the gouernment of the Church especially is cōmitted, one should haue the chiefe care both of the Churches, and of the vvhole ministerie, and that he should go before all other in that care and diligence, for the vvhich cause the name of a Bishop is peculiarly giuen to such chiefe gouernours of Churches, &c. Furthermore I haue