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Ands of men whithersoever they go; oftentimes also gaily arrayed with
chains and collars of gold? They have at times, too, certain ornaments
by themselves, as crosses, pillars, hats, mitres, and palls--which pomp
the ancient bishops Chrysostom, Augustine, and Ambrose never had.
Setting these things aside, what teach they? What say they? What do
they? How live they? I say, not as may become a bishop, but as may
become even a Christian man? Is it so great a matter to have a vain
title, and, by changing a garment only, to have the name of a bishop?
Surely to have the principal stay and effect of all matters committed
wholly to these men's hands, who neither know nor will know these
things, nor yet set a jot by any point of religion, save that which
concerneth their belly and riot; and to have them alone sit as judges,
and to be set up as overseers in the watch-tower, being no better than
blind spies; of the other side, to have a Christian prince of good
understanding and of a right judgment to stand still like a block or a
stake, not to be suffered neither to give his voice nor to show his
judgment, but only to wait what these men shall will and command, as one
which had neither ears, nor eyes, nor wit, nor heart; and whatsoever
they give in charge