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The. 5. Diuision.
T. C. Pag. 164. In the ende.
Afterwarde the honor whiche the smaller Churches gaue vnto them in asking them councell▪ they tooke vnto themselues, and that whiche they had by the curtesy and good will proceding of a reuerent estimation of them, they did not onely take vnto them of right, but also dispossessed them of all authority of hearing and determining any matters at all, And in the end they came to this which they are nowe, which is a company that haue strange names and strange offices, vnheard of of al the purer churches, of whom the greatest good that we can hope of is, that they do no harme. For although there be diuerse which do good, yet in respect that they be Deanes, Prebendaries▪ Canons, Petycanons, &c. for my parte I see no profite but hurte come to the church by them.
All this is vntrue, and your owne enely imagination: for these Churches haue not encreased theyr authoritie, but diminished it rather, as it is euident. The names* 1.1 and offices vsed in them, I haue proued before in the title of Archbishops, &c. to be neyther straunge nor vnhearde of in the purer and auncient Churches. And though you sée no profite that commeth to the Churche by them, yet those that be quietly dis∣posed in the Churche, those that haue a care for the good gouernment of the Church, those that haue not by any schisme deuided themselues from the Churche, sée great profite and singular commoditie.