Then it was sayd tel l 1.1 the church: now it is spoken, complayne to my Lordes grace, Primate and Metropolitane of all Englande, or to his inferiour, my Lorde Byshop of the Diocesse, if not to hym, shewe the Chauncellour, or Officiall, or Commissarie, or Doctour.
As it was saide then, so ought you and may you say now: in priuate offences, yf priuate admonitions wyll not serue, then muste you declare them to the church, either by reprehending of them publikely, before the whole congregation (if you be called therevnto) for that is* 1.2 one kynde of telling the churche, or else by complayning to suche as haue authoritie in. the church, for in that place of Mathewe (as all learned interpretours both olde and newe do determine) the churche signifieth such as haue authoritie in the churche. Therefore when you complayne to my Lordes grace, Lorde Bishop of the Dioces, or their Chauncellors, Commissaries. &c. You tell the church, that is, suche as be appointed to be publike Magistrates in the churche, ac∣cording to the very true sense and interpretation of that place.