A reply unto M. Hardinges answerA replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare

But here perhaps some will say, it can not appear by the event of things, and practise of the Church, that the Pope had this supreme power, and Authority over all Bishops, and over all Christs flock in matters touching Faith, and in causes Ecclesiastical. Verily, whosoever peruseth the Ecclesiastical stories, and vie weth the state of the Church of all times and ages, can not but confess this to be most evident. And here I might allege first certain places of the New Testament, declaring, that Peter practised this preeminence among the Disciples at the beginning, and that they yielded the same, as of right appertaining unto him. As when he first,¹ and only moved them to choose one in the stead of Judas, and demeaned him self, as the chief author of all that was done therein: when he made answer for all, at what time they were gazed,² and wondered at, and of some mocked, as being drunken with new wine: for that in the .50. day they spake with tongues of so many Nations: when he used that dreadful severity in punishing the falsehood, and hypocrisy of Ananias and Sapphira his wife:³ when variance being risen about the observation of certain points of Moses law,⁴ he as chief, and head of the rest, said his mind before all others. Among many other places left out for brevity, that is not ⟨p. 261⟩