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In the second of the acts / all the Apostles are accused of drunkenness / Peter answereth for them all / wipeth away the infamy they were charged with. But you will say / where are the voices of the rest / which did choose Peter unto this. First / you must know that the scripture setteth not down every circumstance / & then surely you do Peter great injury / that ask whether he were chosen unto it. For is it to be thought / that Peter would thrust in him self to this office or dignity without the consent and allowance of his fellows / and prevent his fellows of this preeminence? undoubtedly / if it had not been done arrogantly / yet it must needs have a great show of arrogancy / if he had done this without the consent of his fellows. And here you shall hear what the Scholiast saith / which gathereth the judgement of Greek divines hora (speaking of Peter) panta meta koines auton gnomes poiounta. Behold / how he doth ⟨p. 111⟩all with their common consent. And if any man hereupon will say / that Peter exercised domination over the rest / or gate any archapostleship / beside that the whole story of the acts of the apostles / and his whole course of life doth refute that: the same Scholiast which I made mention of in the same place / saith he did nothing / archikos, imperiously / nothing meta exousias, with dominion or power. Further / I will admonish him to take heed / least if he strive so sore for the archbishop / he slide or ever he be aware into the tents of the papists / which use these places to prove that Peter had authority and rule over the rest of the apostles.

In the seconde of the actes / all the Apostles are accused of drunkennesse / Peter answeareth for thē all / wypeth away the infamy they were charged with. But you will say / where are the voyces of the rest / which did chuse Peter vnto thys. First / you must know that the scripture setteth not downe euery circumstāce / & then surely you do Peter great iniury / that aske whether he were chosen vnto it. For is it to bee thought / that Peter would thrust in hym selfe to this office or dignitie without the consent and allowance of hys fellowes / and preuent hys fellowes of thys preheminence? vndoubtedly / if it hadde not beene done arrogantly / yet it must needes haue a great shew of arrogancye / if hee hadde done thys without the consent of hys fellowes. And heere you shall heare what the Scholiast sayth / which gathereth the iudgement of Greke diuines hora (speaking of Peter) panta meta koines auton gnomes poiounta. Behold / how he doth