The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…

And afterward he addeth [Primatum autem Ecclesiasticum concupiscere, neque ratio est neque causa: quia neque justum est, neque utile: Quis enim sapiens ultro see subjicere festinar servituti, labori, dolori, & quod majus est, periculo tali, ut det rationem pro omni Ecclesia apud justum judicem, nisi forte qui nec credit judicium Dei, nec times, uti abutens primatu suo Ecclesiastico seculariter, convertat eum in secularem.] That is [But to desire an Ecclesiastical Primacy, there is neither reason nor cause, because it is neither just nor profitable: For what wise man will voluntarily hasten to subject himself to servitude, labour, grief, and which is more to such a danger, as to be accountable to the righteous judge for all the Church? unless it ⟨p. 350⟩be one that perhaps doth neither believe the judgement of God, nor feareth it, that abusing secularly his Ecclesiastical primacy, he may turn it into a secular.] One would think this should be plain enough against the Papal usurpation! If they tell me that this is none of Chrysostoms works, but some heretics; I answer, When they have use for it, they can magnify it. Let their Sixtus Senensis words be weighed which are printed before this book, especially what he saith of some ancient Copies, which have the errors only in the Margin, written by some Arian hand, and withal that it is very observable, that the errors are so intermixed, that yet you may take them out, and not maim any of the sense, but leave the rest entire, yea they seem as parenthetical or superfluous, and then conjecture whether yet it may not be Chrysostom's: But whose so ever it is, it is ancient, and commonly much commended. But let that go which way it will, as long as in the undoubted works of Chrysostom there is over and over again the like. In his Homil. 66. alias 67. in Mat. 20. pag. 577.¹ he saith [They that seek Primacy, are a disgrace to themselves not knowing that by this means they shall thrust themselves into the lowest] state. The like he hath in Homil. on Math. 18.

And afterward he addeth [Primatum autem Ecclesiasticum concupiscere, neque ratio est neque causa: quia neque justum est, neque utile: Quis enim sapiens ultro se subjicere festinar servituti, labori, dolori, & quod majus est, periculo tali, ut det rationem pro omni Ecclesia apud justum judicem, nisi forte qui nec credit judicium Dei, nec times, uti abutens primatu suo Ecclesiastico seculariter, convertat eum in secularem.] That is [But to desire an Ecclesiastical Primacy, there is neither reason nor cause, because it is neither just nor profitable: For what wise man will voluntarily hasten to subject himself to servitude, labor, grief, and which is more to such a danger, as to be accountable to the righteous judge for all the Church? unless it