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My honour (saith he) is the honour of the universal ⟨image 32⟩Church:¹ my honour is the flourishing honour of my brethren: then am I honoured aright, when due honour is not denied to every particular brother. For if your holiness do call me universal Pope, you renounce your s•lues to be the self same, which you yield unto me in name of universality. But God forbid. Let speeches that puff up to arrogance, and impair Christian charity, be abandoned, &c. And again in another place, writing to the Bishop of Constantinople, requireth him to be well advised what he enter upon, because in that presumptuous rashness the unity of the whole Church is perverted upside down:² and thereby ariseth a flat denial of the general grace poured upon all indifferently. And forthwith after: For what else be your Bishops of the universal Church, but the Stars of heaven, above whom whilst thou presumest to exalt thy self by proud title of stately sovereignty, what imply these words else, but that I will ascend into heaven, and will exalt my Seat above the Stars of heaven? &c. Adding moreover in the same epistle no less wisely, then considerately an admonition both to himself, and the other Bishops. Let us be afraid (sayeth he) to be recounted of that number, which prowl for the highest Seats in the Synagogues, and gape after greetings in the ma•ket place, and to be called of men Rabbi: For there is but one master, but all you be brethren.

My honour (sayth he) is the honour of the vniuersal ⟨image 32⟩Church:¹ my honour is the flourishing honour of my brethren: then am I honoured aright, when due honour is not denied to euerie particular brother. For if your holinesse do cal me vniuersall Pope, you renounce your s•lues to be the selfe same, which you yeeld vnto me in name of vniu•rsalitie. But God forbid. Let speeches that puffe vp to arrogancie, and empaire Christian chaitie, be abandoned, &c. And againe in another place, writing to the Bishop of Constantinople, requireth him to be well aduised what he enter vpon, bycause in that presumptuous rashnesse the vnitie of the whole Church is peruerted vpside downe: