A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

How then should they come to have this expectation that one of them should be chosen to succeed Christ in his Care, when they were all chosen to serve under him in the continuance of his care towards his Church? That which you obscurely intimate from whence this expectation of yours might arise, is the contest that was amongst them a•••t preeminence, Luk. 22. 24. There was a strife, amongst them which of them should be the greatest. […] you suppose was upon their persuasion that one should be chosen in particular to succeed the Lord Christ in his Care, whereupon they fell into difference about the place, But 1. Is it not somewhat strange unto your self, ⟨p. 394⟩how they should contest about a succession unto Christ in his absence, who had not once thought that he would ever be absent from them, nor could bear the mention of it without great sorrow of heart when afterwards he began to acquaint them with it? 2. How should they come in your apprehension to quarrel about that which as you suppose and contend, was somewhile before determined? For this contest of yours, was somewhile after the promise of the Keys to Peter, and the saying of Christ that he would build his Church on the Rock. Were the Apostles think you as stupid as Protestants, that they could not see the Supremacy of Peter in those passages, but must yet fall at variance who should be Pope? 3. How doth it appear that this strife of theirs who should be greatest, did not arise from their apprehension of an earthly Kingdom, a hope whereof according to the then current persuasion of the Judaical Church, to be erected by their master whom they believed in as the true Messiah, they were not delivered from, until after his Resurrection, when they were filled with the Spirit of the New Testament? Act. 1. Certainly from that root sprang the ambitious desire of the Sons of Zebedee, after preeminence in his Kingdom; and the designing of the rest of them in this place from the manner of its management, by strife, seems to have had no better a spring. 4. The stop put by our Lord Jesus unto the strife that was amongst them, makes it manifest that it arose from no such expectation as you imagine; or that at least if it did, yet your expectation was irregular, vain, and groundless. For, 1.