The practise of prelates. CompiledThe practyse of prelates. Compyled

[…] axed who should be greatest in the king••• of heaven, Christ called a young child unto him / and set him in the midst among them ▪ saying: Except ye turn back and become as children, ye shall not enter in the kingdom of heaven. Now young children bear no rule one over an other / but all is fellowship among them. And he said more over: Who soever humbleth him self after the ensample of this Child, he is greatest in the kingdom of heaven, that is, to be (as concerning ambition and worldly desire) so childish▪ y• y• couldest not heave thy self above thy brother / is the very bearing of rule and to be great in Christs kingdom. And to describe the very •a•ion of the greatness of his kingdom / he said: He that receiveth one such child in my name receiveth me. What is that to receive a child in Christs name? Verily to subm•• to meek and to humble thy self and to cast thy self under all men and to consider all mens infirmities and weaknesses / & to help to heal their diseases with the word of trueth / and to live purely that they see no contrary ensample in the to what soever thou teachest them in Christ that thou put no stumbling block before them, to make ⟨image 8⟩them fall while they be yet Young and weak in the faith: But that thou abstain as Paul teacheth .i. Thessalo. v. Ab omni specie mala, from all that might seem evil or whereof a man might surmise amiss, & that thou so love them / that whatsoever gift of god in thee is / thou think the same, theirs and their food and for their sakes given unto thee as the Truth is, and that all the infirmities be thine, and that thou feel them and that thine hart mourn for them and that with all thy power thou help to amend them, and cease not to cry to God for them neither day nor night: and that thou let nothing be found in the / that any man may rebuke, but whatsoever thou teachest them, thou that be: And that thou be not a wolf in a Lambs skin as our holy father the Pope is, which cometh unto us in Name of hypocrisy and in the title of cursed Ham or Ham calling him self Seruus seruorum / the servant of all servants / and is yet found tyrannus tyrannorum of all tyrants most cruel. This is to receive young children in christs name, and to receive young children in Christs name, is to bear rule in the kingdom of christ.