FORASMUCH as our holy prelates and our ghostly religious which ought to defend Gods word speak evil of it and do all the shame they can to it and rail on it and bear their captives in hand that it causeth insurrection and teacheth the people to disobey their heads and governors and moveth them to rise against their princes and to make all common and to make havock of other mens goods therefore have I made this little treatise that followeth containing all obedience that is of God in which whosoever readeth it shall easily perceive not the contrary only and that they lie but also the very cause of such blasphemy and what stirreth them so furiously to rage and to belie the truthHowbeit it is no new thing unto the word of God to be railed upon neither is this the first time that hypocrites have ascribed to Gods word the vengeance whereof they themselves were ever cause For the hypocrites with their false doctrine and idolatry have evermore led the wrath and vengeance of God upon the