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CAPÍTULO XLII. DEL PODER ECLESIÁSTICO

Justicia deben cesar; lo cual es contrario a todas las Leyes, tanto Divinas como Humanas. Nada por tanto puede extraerse de estos, ni de ningunos otros lugares de la Escritura, para probar que los Decretos del Papa, allí donde no posee también la Soberanía Civil, sean Leyes.

The Question Of Superiority Between The Pope And Other Bishops The last point hee would prove, is this, “That our Saviour Christ has committed Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction immediately to none but the Pope.” Wherein he handleth not the Question of Supremacy between the Pope and Christian Kings, but between the Pope and other Bishops. And first, he sayes it is agreed, that the Jurisdiction of Bishops, is at least in the generall De Jure Divino, that is, in the Right of God; for which he alledges S. Paul, Ephes. 4.11. where hee sayes, that Christ after his Ascension into heaven, “gave gifts to men, some Apostles, some Prophets, and

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