The Obedience of a Christian Man

In the same chapter of Luke not .xij. lines from the foresaid text. The disciples even at the last supper axed who should be the greatest And Christ rebuked them and said it was an heathenish thing & there should be no such thing among them / but that the greatest should be as the smallest / and that to be great was to do service as Christ did. But this text because it is brighter then the sun / that they can make no sophistry of it / therefore will they not hear it nor let other know it

In the same chapter of Luke not .xij. lines from the forsaid texte. The disciples evē at the last soper axed who shulde be the greatest And Christ rebuked thē ād said it was an hethenish thinge & ther shulde be no soch thinge amonge them / but that the greatest shulde be as the smallest / and that to be greate was to do service as Christ did. But this texte because it is brighter then the sonne / that they can make no sophistry of it / therfore will they not heare it ner let other know it

For as much now as thou partly seest the falsehood of our prelates / how all their study is to deceive us and to keep us in darkness / to sit as Gods in our con sciences and handle us at their pleasure and to lead us whether the lust: therefore / I red the / get the to Gods word and thereby try all doctrine and against that receive nothing. Nether any exposition contrary unto the ⟨p. cxlvij⟩open texts / nether contrary to the general articles of the faith / nether contrary to the living and practising off Christ and off his Apostles.¹ And when they cry fathers fathers / remember that it were the fathers that both blinded and robbed the whole world and brought us in to this captivity where in these enforce to keep us still. Further more as they off the old time are fathers to us / so shall these foul monsters be fathers to them that come after us / and the hypocrites that follow us will cry of these and of their doings fathers fathers / as these cry fathers / fathers / of them that are past. And as we feel our fathers / so did they that are past feel their fathers: nether were there in the world any other fathers then such as we both see and feel this many hundred years / as there decrees bear record and the stories and chronicles well testify. If Gods word appeared any where they agreed all against it. When they had brought that a sleep / then strove they one with another about their own traditions and one pope condemned a nothers decrees and were some time two / ye three popes at once. And one bishop went to law with another and one cursed another for their own fantasies and such things as they had falsely gotten. And the greatest saints are they that most defended the liberties of