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And here you put me in remembrance of an other argument against the archbishop / which I will frame after this sort. If there should be any archbishop many place / the same should be either in respect of the person or minister and his excellency / or in respect of the magnificence of the place: but the most excellent ministers that ever were / in the most famous places / were no archbishops / but bishops only / therefore there is no cause why there should be any archbishop. For if there were ever minister of a congregation worthy / that was James / if there were ever any cite that ought to have this honour / as that the minister of it should have a more honourable title / then the ministers of other cities and towns / that was Jerusalem / where the Son of God preached / and from whence the gospel issued out unto all places. And afterward that Jerusalem decayed / and the church there / Antioch was a place where the notablest men were that ever have been since / which also deserved great honour / for that there the * disciples were first called christians / but neither was that called the ¹first and chiefest church / neither the ministers of it called the Arch or principal bishops. And Eusebius to declare that this order was firm and durable / ²showeth that S. John the Apostle / which over lived the residue of the Apostles / ordained bishops in every church.

And heere you put me in remembraunce of an other argument agaynst the archbyshop / which I will frame after thys sorte. If there shoulde be any archbyshop many place / the same shoulde be eyther in respect of the persone or minister and hys excellencie / or in respecte of the magnificence of the place: but the most excellent mynisters that euer were / in the most famous places / were no archbyshops / but byshops only / therefore there is no cause why there shoulde be any archbyshop. For if there were euer mynister of a congregation worthy / that was Iames / if there were euer any citte that ought to haue thys honor / as that the mynister of it should haue a more honorable title / then the mynisters of other cities and townes / that was Ierusalem / where the sonne of God preached / and from whence the gospell issued out vnto all places. And afterwarde that Ierusalem decayed / and the church there / Antioche was a place where the notablest men were that euer haue bene since / which also deserued great honoure / for that there the * disciples were first called christians / but neyther was that called the