The answer.
This is verie true, and yet the text rather speaketh of them that should be carefull ouer the flocke, that a number of them shranke away after the world, and prouided rather for them selues then for the flocke. And consider you well vpon this spéech, whether Peters being at Rome then, when Paul wrote this were likelie or no, when Paul had there none like minded to him selfe. And it is a very simple shift to say that Peter might then be absent from Rome for persecution or for businesse, séeing that both the actes of the Apostles, & the Epistle to the Romains, & euery epistle that Paul wrote from Rome, minister good rea∣sons against Peters being there, so that if he were bishop so long as your stories testifie of him, he was a notable non Resident: but I had rather imagine that he came thither, but a litle afore his death.