Priests to belong to Kings, as beeing proper to Bishops. As though inferiour Priests and Bishops were all one. As though institution and destitution of Priests, were all one with election & deposition of Bishops, or Popes. One Bishop may institute and destitute an hundred Priests: but one hundred Bishoppes cannot choose or depose one Bishoppe, especially an Archbishoppe, or Pope.
Heere are some lineaments & liuely colours of this Iesuits grosse ignorance: moe are to be seene in the se∣cond Syllogisme, following thus; All things sound∣ly prooued by the King, all English Academicks ap∣prooue. That the Pope is Antichrist, was soundly pro∣ued by the King: therefore all English Academicks al∣low, as orthodoxall, the Pope to be Antichrist.
To this hee answereth thus: The conclusion is false, and the forme good: therefore the maior or minor is false. It skilleth not whether, so that one of them be false.
What is this else, but to his vtter shame, to display his intolerable ignorance to the world, and to expose it as ludibrious to the meanest Academick Sophisters: who should be well lashr, or iustly exploded if they would aunswere right formed syllogismes, by deny∣ing the conclusions.
But how doth this Iesuit proue this later conclusion to be false? Because Gabriell Powell belieueth this doc∣trine, viz. that the Pope is Antichrist, which the King hath soundly prooued, to be orthodoxall. Wherein, behold the strange blockishnes of this Iesuit, who should haue instauced in one Academick, denying that which the King had soundly proued, viz. the Pope to be Antichrist: but hee brings in Maister Powell allow∣ing