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

Wherefore it is necessary that Paul in the .xiiij. of the first epistle to the Corinthians be suppressed and destroyed by this king of faces and riddles / which will do all things after his own mind / and admit nothing to the judgement of scripture / for he sayeth if any revelation be made to another that sitteth by let the first hold his peace / ¹and again. Let the prophets speak .ij. at once or three at once / and let other judge. What sayeth the Pope? There is nothing (he sayeth) revelate to any that sitteth / but I alone shall speak first / let the other hear. And again / let not the other judge / but I will prophesy and other shall be judged. for I am the master / the prophet / and the vicar of God. It belongeth unto us to speak / or else as it is said in the .xj. Psalm. We shall exalt our tongue / our lips be our own / ²who is our lord? And so doth this wicked / more presumptuous then proud Pelagius / advance him self in his decrees / saying. Where as is the majority / there is the authority of commanding / as for the other of necessity must obey. Tell me if thou canst whether any of the kings which ever have been sith the ⟨image 82⟩beginning of the world / have commanded and exacted their laws with such pride swelling / arrogancy / boldness / stubbornness / standing so well in their own conceit / with such imperious a voice / foolish hardness / and presumption / as only this one Pope? Truly god him self did never exact his precepts with such imperious majesty and power. Is he not therefore a worthy successor of Peter which taught in the .v. of his first epistle.³ Submit your selves every man / one to another / what meaneth that but to give place one to the other / and not to be stubborn in his own opinion? And Paul in the xij. to the Romans sayeth. Make your self equal to them of the lower sort / ⁴be not wise in your own opinions. And Solomon. Put a measure in thy wisdom. And again stick not to thine own wisdom. And paul did write chiefly to the Romans when he exhorted them not to be wise in their own opinions. Even as Peter did also when he prophesied that there should come stubborn men which should stand well in their own conceit and walk after their own lusts.