The images of a very Christen bishop, and of a counterfeit bishopThe images of a verye Chrysten bysshop, and of a couterfayte bysshop

The word of god doth not stir or raise up seditions and strives: ¹but the stubborn and obstinate disobedience of them which do rage against it is the cause that trouble and sedition is stirred up among the ⟨image 17⟩people / and that then by such seditions that thing should happen unto them which they had deserved through their own unbelief and frowardness and wicked blindness. For who soever receiveth the word of god, that man raiseth up no manner seditions at all, albeit that he doth no longer fear those vain bugs, neither doth worship those episcopal puppets, now since that he doth know the word of god And because that men do not fear & reverence their vain imaginations as heretofore they have done, that same is the thing if I be not beguiled, which they do call seditions, ²and this is the thing, that those persons do so greatly fear, which have hitherto suffered them selves to be worshipped and feared like gods, ⟨image 17⟩as though they had ben true bishops or true herds men of the Church. ³And if any man do raise up seditions or war, that man abuseth the word of god to his own affections, and to his own lust and appetite. For the word of Christ or the word of god doth never cause no strife or trouble bodily: but to wicked men, and namely unto tyrants it doth oftentimes menace and show before battles and boldly destructions to ensue, as it appeareth in the books of the prophets / But the said word doth deliver by little and little the souls from the bonds of tyrants, that they may be despised: which is of all other the most mighty and strongest remedy to break & overcome the tyranny of them. For what soever thing ⟨image 18⟩beginneth to be little set by, & is despised in the hearts of men, it needeth not to go about with great might & power to destroy the thing. For it is fallen even all ready & can not stand nor continue long, as it is said in the .ix. psalm. ⁴