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22. It is certayne that in the state of Re∣ligion, there is some perfection, dignity, and excellency, that is not in the state of Bishops, wherby he that of Bishops beco∣mes Religious, may be sayd in some sorte to mount, or fly higher, and not altogea∣ther to descend. This is proued by the Pope in Cap. nisi pridem de renunciatione, saying vnto a Bishop that desired to bee Religious, leauinge his Bishopricke, si pennas habeas quibus satagas in sollitudinem aduersare, ita tamen adstrictae sunt nexibus praeceptorum, vt liberum non habeas absque nostra permissione velatum, though you haue winges wherby you endeauour to fly vnto the wildernesse (of Religious profession (yet these win∣ges are so streight tyed with the bandes of precepts that you bee not free to take that flight without our leaue. In which wordes the Pope doth suppose the state of Reli∣gion to be such as a Bishop passinge thi∣ther, flyeth higher aboue earthly thinges, then he was before in the state of Bishop.