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 "The Bishops in those days not usually arriving per saltum to that dignity and honour, but commonly beginning with the most inferior office, and so gradually proceeding through the others till they came to the supreme office of all, as Cornelious, Bishop of Rome, did not presently leap into the Episcopal throne, but first passed through all the Ecclesiastical offices, gradually ascending to that sublime dignity."