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And for the names first / I desire the reader that we be not thought studious of contention / because we strive about the name of Archbishop. &c. for this is not to strive about words / unless it be counted a strife of words / which is taken for the maintenance of the word of God / as it hath before appeared out of the Evangelists. Then it must be remembered which Aristotle sayeth very well in his Elenches / that ta onomata ton pragmaton mimemata esti: which is / that names are imitations / or as it were express images of the things whereof they are names / and do for the most part bring to him that heareth them / knowledge of the things that are signified by them. Howsoever the thing be it self / yet oftentimes it is supposed to be as the name pretendeth / and thereupon followeth / that a man may be easily deceived / when the names do not answer to the things whereof they are names. There may be / I grant / a freer and more licentious use of names / but that licence is more tolerable in any thing / rather then in matters of the church and salvation. And if there be some cases / wherein names that are not so proper / may be borne with / yet are there also which are intolerable. As who can abide that a minister of the gospel / should be called by the name of a Levite / or sacrificer / onles it be he which would not care much / if the remembrance of the death / and resurrection of our saviour Christ were plucked out of his mind? Again / it is unlawful for any man to take upon him those titles which are proper to our saviour Christ: but the title of Archbishop is only proper to our saviour Christ / therefore no man may take that unto him. That it ¹is proper to our saviour Christ / appeareth by that which S. Peter sayeth / where he calleth him archipoimena: which is archshepheard or archbishop / for bishop & shepherd are all one. And in the Hebrews where he is called the great shepherd of the sheep / and in the Acts / and * Hebrews / archleader of life and ⟨p. 83⟩of salvation / which titles are never found to be given unto any / but unto our saviour Christ / and are proper titles of his mediation / and therefore can not be without bold presumption applied unto any mortal man.

And for the names first / I desire the reader that we be not thought studious of contention / because we striue about the name of Archbyshop. &c. for thys is not to striue about words / vnles it be counted a strife of wordes / which is taken for the maintenance of the worde of God / as it hathe before appeared out of the Euangelists. Then it must be remembred whych Aristotle sayeth very well in hys Elenches / that ta onomata ton pragmaton mimemata esti: whych is / that names are imitations / or as it were expres images of the things whereof they are names / and doe for the most part bring to hym that heareth them / knowledge of the things that are signified by them. Howsoeuer the thing be it selfe / yet oftentimes it is supposed to be as the name pretendeth / and therevpon followeth / that a man may be easely deceiued / when the names doe not answer to the things wherof they are names. There may be / I graunte / a freer and more licentious vse of names / but that licence is more tollerable in any thing / rather then in matters of the church and saluation. And if there be some cases / wherin names that are not so proper / may be borne with / yet are there also whych are intollerable. As who can abide that a minister of the gospell / should be called by the name of a Leuite / or sacrificer / onles it be he whych woulde not care muche / if the remembrance of the death / and resurrection of our sauioure Christ were plucked out of hys minde? Againe / it is vnlawfull for any man to take vpon him those titles which are proper to our sauioure Christ: but the title of Archbyshop is only proper to our sauioure Christe / therefore no man may take that vnto hym. That it