A defence of the Apology of the Church of England containing an answer to…A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to…

It is a common manner of this Defender, what he must needs grant, to make a show in words, as though it were free gift. So many times beggars will seem gentlemen, and payers of debt will seem givers. Let the Bishop of Rome, (saith he) alone be above all councils.^‡ Sir, he is so: no thake to you. Yet speak you like a liberal gentleman: That is to say, let some one part be greater then the whole. ⟨p. 610⟩No sir,² maugre your scoffing head, part shall not be greater then the whole, but part shall be greater then part.^* In a right sense is not the head greater then the body, the Bishop then his clergy, the * master of a house more then his family? Neither is the Council the whole pardie, except your merry wit can devise us a whole body without a head. Let him be of greater power, say you. And so he is. Let him be of more wisdom, then all his. We say not so. It may be, that his Council hath more learning,^‡ more knowledge and more wisdom, then his only person. Albeit, when we speak of that wisdom of the See Apostolic, which is sure, infallible, and cannot err: we mean not only the Popes singular person, but the head Pastor and Bishop, as he doth those things, which pertain to that chair: that is to say, in as much as he proceedeth not upon his own private judgement,