elders in birth of the congregacion or church / and said vnto them / take hede vnto youre selves and vnto the hole flocke / ouer which the holy gost hath made you episcopos ad regendum ecclesiam dei / bisshopes or ouersears to gouerne the church of god. There is presbiteros called an elder in birth which same is immediatly called a bisshope or ouersear / to declare what persons are ment. Herof ye se that I haue no moare erred then there awne texte which they haue vsed sens the scripture was first in the latine tongue / and that their awne texte vnderstondeth by presbiteros nothinge saue an elder. And they were called elders / because of their age / grauite and sadnesse / as thou maist se by the texte: and bisshopes or ouersears by the reason of their offices . And all that were called elders (or prestes if they so will) were called bisshopes also / though they haue diuided the names now / Which thinge thou maist evidently se by the first chapter of titus. And the .xx. of the actes and other places moo.

And when he layeth Timothe vn to my charge / how he was younge / then he weneth that he hath wonne his gylden spores. But I wolde praye him to shew me where he readeth that Paul calleth him presbiteros / preast or elder. I durst not then call him Episcopus propirly. For those ouersears which we now call bisshopes aftir the greke worde / were all waye bydynge in one place / to gouerne the congregacion there. Now was Timothe an apostle. And Paul also writeth that he will come shortly agayne. Wel / will he saye / it cometh yet all to one. For if it becometh the lower ministre to be of a sad and discrete age / moch more it becometh the hyer. It is trueth.