Storia do Mogor 325: ANSWER TO THE THIRTEENTH ARTICLE.

325

[135] The worst of the matter is that this gentleman boasted of his own great learning. He contended that none but Saint Peter had made bishops. On my side I pointed out to him the contrary from Holy Scripture. Subsequently he declared that nobody had ever been made a bishop except by order of the Supreme Pontiff at Rome. I pointed out to him the contrary in the abridgment of [136] the Councils by Coriolanus, and also, Omnis potestas ordinis et jurisdictionis erat penes Pontificem Romanorum. [All the power of ordination and the power of jurisdiction lay with the Roman Pontiff.] In spite of this, he affirmed that without the Pope's permission there could be no bishops having the proper qualifications. But what angered him above all was that he could find nothing as an answer to what I said. It is this, no doubt, that has made him invent these accusations against me — namely, that I had listened to a sermon by the English clergyman — because he asked me in what way the said minister gave the communion to his flock, and I stated in reply, in simple terms, what I knew about it. He now wishes to make that a crime on my part ; also my saying that he (the clergyman) was learned, and there was little doubt that the said minister spoke better Latin than my accuser.