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Last of all / I conclude against these made and devised ministries of archbishops and archdeacons after this sort. If men may add ministries / they may also take away / for those both belong to one authority: but they can not take away those ministries that God hath placed in his church / therefore they can not add to those that are placed in the church. And this foundation I thought first to lay / or ever I entered into M. Doctors not reasons / but authorities / not of God / but of men / in confuting of which / there will fall forth also other arguments against both these offices of archbishop / and archdeacon.

Last of all / I conclude agaynst these made and deuised ministeries of archbishops and archdeacons after this sort. If men may adde ministeries / they may also take away / for those both belong to one authoritie: but they can not take away those ministeries that God hath placed in his church / therefore they can not adde to those that are placed in the church. And this foundation I thought first to lay / or euer I entred into M. Doctors not reasons / but authorities / not of God / but of men / in confuting of which / there will fall forth also other arguments agaynst both these offices of archbishop / and archdeacon.

Now I will come to the examining of your witnesses / whereof some of them are so bored in the ears / and branded in their foreheads / that no man need to fear any credit they shall get before any judge wheresoever / or before whomsoever they come / but in the Romish court / and the papists only excepted. For to let go Polidore Virgil / because whatsoever he saith / he saith of the credit of another / let us come to Clement which is the author of this you speak. And what is he? is there any so blind that knoweth not that this was nothing less then Clement / of whom S. Paul speaketh / and which * some think was the ¹first bishop of Rome ordained by Peter / and not rather a wicked hellhound / into whom the Lord had sent satan to be a lying spirit in his mouth / to deceive them for their unthankful receiving of the gospel? And he must witness for the archbishop: a worthy witness. For as all that popish hierarchy came out of the bottomless pit of hell / so to uphold the archbishop the neck of it / whereupon that Romish monster standeth / are raised up from hell bastards / Clemens and Anacletus / and in deed as it may appear / the very natural sons of Satan / and the sworn soldiers of Antichrist.