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Neither did God give any archdeacon to his church / therefore he can not profit the church. But it will be said that this argument followeth not / because no mention is made here of the deacon or of the elder / which notwithstanding are both necessary in the church / and therefore that there are functions profitable in the church / whereof no mention is made here. But how easily do all men know / that the Apostle speaketh of those functions here only / which are conversant in the word / and have to do with the preaching thereof: and therefore made here no mention of the deacon or elder. It is said again / that in the Epistle to the Corinth. S. Paul speaketh only of Apostles / Prophets / and ¹Doctors / leaving out Evangelists and pastors / and yet Evangelists and pastors necessary / and so although archbishops are not spoken of in the place to the Ephesians / yet they may not be therefore shut out as unnecessary. But they that say so / should have considered that the diversity of the matter which the Apostle handleth in these two places / bred a divers kind of speech. For in the Epistle to the Corinthians / going about to condemn the ambition of men / which will thrust them selves into other mens callings / and take upon them to do all them selves / and to be as it were / eye / and ear / and hand and all. S. Paul proveth that the church is a body / wherein there are many members / and the same divers one from an other / and that it is not one member only. And to prove that / it was sufficient to say that he placed some Apostles / some Prophets / some Doctors / without rehearsing all the kinds of functions. But in the Epistle to the Ephesians / meaning to show the liberality of our saviour Christ in giving those / which should be able by doctrine and teaching to make perfect and absolute his church / it was necessary that he should reckon up all those functions / whereby that work is done.

Neyther dyd God geue any archdeacon to his church / therefore he can not profite the church. But it will be sayde that this argument followeth not / because no mention is made heere of the deacon or of the elder / which notwithstanding are bothe necessarye in the churche / and therefore that there are functions profitable in the church / whereof no mention is made heere. But how easely doe all men know / that the Apostle speaketh of those functions heere only / which are conuersant in the worde / and haue to doe with the preaching thereof: and therefore made heere no mention of the deacon or elder. It is sayde agayne / that in the Epistle to the Corinth. S. Paule speaketh only of Apostles / Prophetes / and