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And in the second Tome of the Councils / Damasus in his fourth Epistle / likeneth those that set over their charges unto other / unto harlots / which as soon as they have brought forth their children / by and by give them to be nourished of others / to the intent that they might the sooner fulfil their inordinate lusts.

And in the seconde Tome of the Councelles / Damasus in hys fourth Epistle / lykeneth those that set ouer their charges vnto other / vnto harlots / whiche assone as they haue brought forth their children / by and by geue them to be nourished of others / to the intent that they might the soner fulfill their inordynare lustes.

Whether it were better y• one diligent pastor should have many flocks / then a negligent and unskilful pastor one / is not the question: for we say neither is lawful / nor ought to be done.

Whether it were better y• one dyligent pastoure should haue many flockes / then a neglygent and vnskilfull pastor one / is not the question: for we say neither is lawfull / nor ought to be done.

Do you believe that which you set down of Denis the monk & Pope / that he devised and divided parishes? If you do not / why would you have us believe it? If the law doth condemn him / that turneth a blind man out of ¹the way / or layeth a block before him / what doth it him / which would put out the eyes of them that see their way already? I have showed / and the matter is plain / that the Lord divided national churches / into parishes and congregations: so that if S. Paul have not the word of parish / yet he hath the thing. And those that have read stories / know that dioiceris (which we call a Diocese / and which containeth with us numbers of parishes) was at the first taken to be the same that parish is / and used a great while before Denis was borne / or monkery begotten.