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Chap. 2.
The establishing of Ecclesiasticall affairs, and Pa∣triarchs in Antioch and Ierusalem; the numero∣sity of Palestine-Bishops.
BUt now let us leave the Helmets, and look on the Mitres, and consider the ordering of Ecclesiasticall affairs. For the Common-wealth is a Ring, the Church the Diamond; both well set together receive, and return lustre each to other. As soon as Antioch was taken, one Bernard (a reverend Prelate) was made Patriarch there with generall consent. But more stirre was there about that place in Jerusalem: For first Arnulphus, a worthlesse and vitious man, was by† 1.1 popular faction lifted up into the Patriarchs chair; but with much ado was avoided, and Dabert, Archbishop of Pisa, substituted in his room: one very wise and politick, an excellent book-man in reading of men, and otherwise well studied, especially as that age went, wherein a mediocrity was an eminency in learning. But he was infected with the humour of the clergy of that age, who counted them∣selves to want room, except they justled with Princes. As for Arnulphus, he never ceased to trouble and molest this Dabert; and as a firebrand smoketh most when out of the chimney, so he after his displacing was most turbulent and unquiet, ever sitting on his skirts that sate in the Patriarchs chair, till after many chan∣ges he struggled himself again into the place.
Under these Patriarchs many Archbishops and Bishops were appointed, in the very places (as near as might be) where they were before the Saracens overrunning the countrey, and good maintenance assigned to most of them.
But at this time Bishops were set too thick for all to grow great; and Palestine fed too many Cathedrall Churches to have them generally fat.† 1.2 Lydda, Jamnia, and Joppa, three Episco∣pall towns, were within four miles one of another. Yea,† 1.3 Ty∣rius makes 14 Bishops under the Archbishop of Tyre, 20 un∣der the Archbishop of Caesarea, under the Archbishop of Scy∣thopolis 9, 12 under the Archbishop of Rabbah, besides 25 suf∣fragan churches, which it seems were immediately depending on the Patriarch of Jerusalem, without subordination to any Archbishop. Surely, many of these Bishops (to use Bishop † 1.4 Langhams expression) had high racks, but poor mangers. Neither let it stagger the reader, if in that catalogue of Tyrius he light on many Bishops seats which are not to be found in Mercator, Ortelius, or any other Geographer; for some of them