T. C.
M. Beza in his confessions 5. chapter. 43. Section, sayeth, that this power of excommu∣nicating is giuen to no one man, except it please God to worke extraordinarily.
Peter Martyr vpon the firste to the Corinthes and fifth chapter, sayeth that it is very daungerous, to permitte so waighty a matter as excommunication to the discretion and wil of any one man. And therefore, both that tyrannie might be auoyded, and this censure exe∣ceuted with greater fruite and grauitie, that the order whiche the Apostles there vseth is still to be obserued.
To M. Beza and M. Martyr, I answere as I dyd to M. Caluine: and yet M. Mar∣tyr séemeth to expounde hym selfe in the same place where hée speakyng against the committing of this authoritie of excommunicating to the Pope or to one Bishop, and refelling this saying of the Papistes, Episcopum esse totam ecclesiā virtuali∣ter, when as they be rather tora ecclesia vitialiter, as he there affirmeth, he addeth by and by, de malis haec intelligas & tyrannicè agentibus: Vnderstande this of euill Di∣shops and such as deale tyrannically: whereby he declareth that he speaketh agaynst the