The practise of prelates. CompiledThe practyse of prelates. Compyled

And concerning y• the hypocrites put you in fear of the rising of your commons against you / I answer: If ye fear your commons, to testify yea against your selves that ye are tyrants. For if your conscience accused you not of evil doing, what need ye to fear your commons? What commons was ever so evil that they rose against their heads for well •oynge? Moreover ye witness against your selves also that ye have no trust in God. For he hath promised the temporal officers assistance, if they minister their offices truly, and to care for the •epinge of them, as much as they care for to keep his laws.

And cōcernīg y• the hipocrytes put you in feare of ye risīg of your comens against you / I answere: If ye feare your comēs, to •estify yea agaīst your selues yt ye are tiraū tes. For if your conscience accused you not of euell doing, what neade ye to feare your comens? What comēs was euer so euell that they rose against their heades for well •oynge? Moreouer ye witnesse agaīst youre selues also that ye haue no trust in God. For he hath promised ye temporall officers assistence, if they minister their offices truelye, and to care for the •epinge of them, as much as they care for to kepe his lawes.

The hypocrites haply bid you take an ensample of the uplandish people of Almany which they lye that Marten Luther starred up. For first what one sentence in all the writing of Marten Luther find they that teacheth a man to resist his superior? Moreover if Marten Luther and the preachers had st•rred up the common People of Germany, how happened it that Marten Luther and other like preachers had not perished like wise with them, which •IVED Long after? Ye will ask ⟨image 6⟩