The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

And beside that it is but trifling / to fetch examples off Archbishop like government / four hundred years and a half after Christ / or there about / where the question is off three hundred: I have showed how dangerous it is / to build upon the examples off those times: especially when even in this point off broad dominion / before Chrysostoms time there was an intolerable excess in the bishop off Antioch: which beside Chrysostoms compass / had also all ¹Illyricum.

And beside that it is but trifling / to fetche examples off Archbishop like gouernement / fower hundrethe yeares and a halfe after Christe / or there abowt / where the question is off three hundrethe: I haue shewed how daungerous yt is / to builde vpon the examples off those times: especially when euen in this pointe off broad dominion / before Chrysostomes time there was an intollerable excesse in the bishop off Antioche: which beside Chrysostomes compas / had also all ¹Illyricum.

1. 1Theodor. li 5. ca. 23.

Touching Ireneus embassy into Phrygia: the D. eye is not simple. For after Euseb. had showed that there were Ambassadors ⟨p. DCXXVII⟩¹sent by the french churches / to those off Phrygia: he addeth as an augmentation / that they were also sent to the bishop off Rome. After to the end the embassy might have more authority / he showeth how Ireneus was sent being commended unto the bishop off Rome: to the end (as may easily appear) that his letter also obtained with theirs / the churches might be the rather moved. Whether I have followed the Scholiast's meaning / touching every hishop having a several congregation: I refer me to that I have before alleged. The D. answer to