T. C. Pag. 164. Sect. 2.
And where he sayth it is not materiall, although these Deanes, Uycedeanes, Canons, Petyca∣nons, prebēdaries, &c. come from ye Pope, it is, as if he should say, that it skilleth not although they come out of ye bottomlesse pitte. For whatsoeuer cōmeth from the Pope which is Antichrist, com∣meth first from the Deuill: and where he addeth this condition (if it be good. &c.) in deede if of the egges of a Cokatrice can be made holesome meate to feede with, or of a spiders webbe any cloth to couer withall, then also may the things that come from the Pope & the Deuill, be good, profitable, and necessary vnto the church. And where he sayth that Collegiate churches are of great annciēcie, he proueth not the aunciencie of the Cathedrall churches, onlesse he proue that cathedrall and colle∣giate be all one. But I will not sticke with him in so small a matter, and if our controuersie were of the names of these churches, & not of the matter, I could be content to graunt his cause in this point as good as antiquitie without ye word of god (which is nothing but rottēnesse) could make it.
This Replie neither answereth directly nor truly, to any thing yt I haue set down.* 1.1 For first it is vntrue that all things cōming frō an Antichristian Pope, cōmeth first frō ye Deuill. I haue sufficiently proued ye contrary in that portion, where I speake of* 1.2 apparel of ministers: an euill man may do some thing that is good, euen as a good mā may do some thing that is euill: & as God doth worke ye good by ye one, so doth the De∣uill worke ye euill by the other. Ethnikes haue made good lawes, they haue appointed stipendes & rewards for learning, & such other like good things, which are profitable & not to be reiected for the Authors sakes, though they were members of Satan.