BECAN. Exam.* 1.1
I Do not inquire what Tooker, and Burhill haue professed or sworne of the kings Supreme Gouernment: but what they haue written of the Primate of the Church. Both of them deny that the king may be called Primate of the Church; Hainric saith be may be so called. There is the Iarre.
Dr. HARRIS Reply.
TRue it is, in our English tongue, as we doe not call the kings Supreme gouernment of this Church, Primacy, but Supremacy: so doe we not cell the king, Primate Ecclesiasticall, or Primate at all. But in respect that the English word Supremacy, is translated into the Latine word Primatus; as we in La∣tine ascribe vnto the king, Primatum Ecclesiasticum, or Primatum, in omnibus causis, et supra omnes personas Ec∣clesiasticas, Primacy Ecclesiasticall, or Primacy, in and ouer, all Causes, and persons Ecclestasticall: so wee in La∣tine call the king Primatem Ecclesiasticum, Primate Ec∣clesiasticall, to weet, of his foresaid (Regall, not Episcopall) Primacy or Supremacy Ecclesiasticall, that is, in and ouer all Ecclesiasticalls: which Mr. Burhill is so far off to deny, that hee hath expressely allowed them, who assert it. So that here is nothing but empty stri∣uing about words, which the Apostle condemneth. I