An answer made the fourth day of September a thousand five hundred sixty [and]…Ane answer made the fourth day of Septembre a thousand fyue hundreth syxtie [and]…

But right well know we that there is always a Catholic Church, ⟨image 16⟩that is an universal Church, forasmuch as the particular members thereof be scattered here & there,¹ throughout the hole world, according, as it pleaseth God to exercise his judgements upon some of them that he haeth ether altogether cut of, or else that he haeth chastened for a time, and his mercies upon other some of them that he entertaineth from good to better, or that he calleth of new unto his knowledge. For in some points the Lord using his just vengeance, he seemeth altogether to root up till that he leave not one trace of the Church, as it is come to pas in the country of the Barbarians & in the orient. And in other countries he haeth left as yet some trace of the Church as we see in the Churches of Grecia, and yet more nearer unto us. On the other part the ⟨image 17⟩Lord between hands some tyme• out of this personal succession of pastors, as it chanced in Antioch, i• the time of Samosatenus, and in Alexandria the time of the banishment of Athanasius, & in many othe• Churches in the time that heresies had there furious rage, & specially without seeking things any further at this time there haeth been interruption in the personal succession of the Romish seat at least in the time that Honorius the first held the seat about the year six hundred three & twenty,² was condemned for the execrable heresy of Eut•ches about the year six hundred & four score. And in the time of Pope John the twenty and two was condemned for an heretic about the year a thousand three hundred thirty & two.

But ryght well know we that there is alwayes a Catholicke Churche, ⟨image 16⟩that is an vniuersall Churche, •orasmuche as the particuler membres thereof be scattered here & there,