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

And he shall be after his own opinion.¹

And he shalbe after his awne opinion.¹

1. 1Danie. viij.

The hebrew sayeth / ve all sichlo / which signifieth. And after his own mind / understō ding ⟨image 80⟩the verb shall be / or shall do / or such like. Here is the prerogative of the popes kingdom touched / whereby the pope is elevated above all other / and is declared to be subject to no mans judgement. For he will judge every man / and will be judged of no man as the wicked papists do crake with a loud and shrill voice / that the thrones and courts of them that must give judgement / must of this see receive their sentence / Groū ding him upon this he runneth riot in his decrees like a mad man that the inferior see shall not judge the superior. To this intent pertaineth the chapter Cuncta per mundū novit ecclesia / Where in it is determined that it is not lawful to judge of the sentence of the church of Rome. I pray the what may be spoken or hard more abominable / than this blasphemous and wretched voice. This is it that Peter doth speak of in the .ij. of. the .ij. epistle / ¹Presumptuous they are and standing well in their own conceit. Is not this an incredible presumption that one wicked & wretched man / which is oppressed with all iniquity and mischief / most rude and unlearned / should take upon him to be judged of no man / to err in nothing / to judge all men? This is it that they meant / when they did reach with most cursed blasphemy that the pope was above the council. And that it belongeth only to him to expound the scriptures ⟨p. lxxix⟩