A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis

Except they be infants or peradventure some simple persons / which are reserved by the inscrutable counsel and provision of god? O thou man of sin. O thou son of perdition. O thou abomination. O thou corrupter. O thou author of evil consciences. O thou false master of good consciences. O thou enemy of faith and christen liberty / who is able for to rehearse / ye or contain in his mind the infinite waves of this monstrous kings evils?

Excepte they be infantes or paraventure some simple persons / which are reserved by the inscrutable councell and provision of god? O thow mā of synne. O thou sonne of perdition. O thow abomination. O thow corrupter. O thow author of evill consciences. O thow false master of good consciences. O thow ennimye of faith ād christen libertye / who is able for to reherse / yee or containe in his minde the infinite waves of this monstruous kinges evilles?

How be it the end of these mischievous evils are not yet come. If he had ordained these his laws / in those works of virtues that are commanded in the .x. precepts / or else in such as the philosophers and natural reason did describe / as are justice / strength temperance / Chastity / mildness / trueth / goodness / and such other. Peradventure they should only have made a Synagogue / or else have ordained in the world a certain civil justice / for through these also faith should have been corrupted / as it was among the Jews / how be it now he keepeth not him self with in these bonds / but runneth riot more at large raising infinite tempests of mischief (yet are we compelled to say he doth no hurt) for he enticeth and driveth us to ceremonies and his own feigned traditions / as to places persons / clothing / meats and days / and bindeth us (like asses / and ignorant fools / ⟨p. lxv⟩•ee and stocks) unto them with an indissoluble bond enduring our hole lives / so that it maketh me sorry and ashamed of this pernicious abomination / and maketh me utterly abhor it unto death / for Christ (as I have said) taking away all laws to make us free and at liberty / did most of all suppress and disannul the ceremonies which did consist in places / persons / garments / meats days and such other / so that their use should be to all men most free and indifferent / nether addressing the conscience to sin / nor yet to justice which is obtained through only faith in Christ. How be it the Pope not content / at the lest with those places / meats / clothings / and days / which were prescribed in the law of moses. Doth weary corrupt / and destroy / the christen congregation with new observations / other invented by his own pregnant wit / or ls by the subtle imagination of his adherents / which also he doth increase daily and command after his own lust / & that you may perceive this the more evidently / we will use certain examples after the manner of an induction to rote and stablish it in you.