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[unspec 32] T. ANd if a mā should finde any prince of that vnspeake∣able pryde, as there haue beene heretofore amongest the Emperours, Kinges, and Heathen princes, and as the
Pope is at this day in Christendome, folowyng their trace and example, the subiectes were no more boūd to obey hym, in that behalfe, then to obey the deuill, whiche is in dede a greater prince then all Tyrantes, and all such as loke for lyke honors: for he is called ye God of this worlde, the prince of this worlde, and the master of all blindenes: vnto whome all these litle tyrantes are but subiectes and vassals, and as * 1.1 it were of his litle clawes. And therfore, when subiectes are brought to this extremitie, they may lawfully vse, not one∣ly the same that the Apostles did, who aunswered in the like * 1.2 case, it is better to obey God then mā: but they may alledge also in their defence these words, it is better to obeye, God then the Deuell. For hee that obeyeth man agaynste the commaundemente of Godde hee obeyeth deuill by whō he is possessed, and therfore shall inherito the inheri∣tance with the deuil and with the tyraunts, of whom they did stande more in feare, then of God.
2. Cori, 1. Iohn. 12 Ephe. 26
Act. 5.