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cruel. This is to receive young children in Christ's name;
and to receive young children in Christ's name is to bear
rule in the kingdom of Christ. Thus ye may see, that Christ's
kingdom is altogether spiritual; and the bearing of rule in it
is clean contrary unto the bearing of rule temporally. Where-
fore none that beareth rule in it way have any temporal
jurisdiction, or minister any temporal office that requireth
violence to compel withal.

Peter was not greater than the other apostles by any authority given
him of Christ.

They say that Peter was chief of the apostles: verily, as
Apelles was called chief of painters for his excellent cunning
above other, even so Peter may be called chief of the apostles
for his activity and boldness above the other. But that Peter
had any authority or rule over his brethren and follow apo-
stles, is false, and contrary to the scripture. Christ forbade
it the last even 3 before his passion, and in divers times before,
and taught alway the contrary, as I have rehearsed.

Peter had no
authority
above the
rest of the
apostles.

Why Peter
was called
chief of the
apostles.

Thou wilt say, 'thou canst not see how there should be
any good order in that kingdom, where none were better
than other, and where the superior had not a law and au-
thority to compel the inferior with violence.' The world,
truly, can see no other way to rule than with violence: for
there no man abstaineth from evil, but for fear; because the
love of righteousness is not written in their hearts. And
therefore the pope's kingdom is of the 4 world: for there one
sort are your grace, your holiness, your fatherhood; another,
my lord bishop, my lord abbot, my lord prior; another,
master doctor, father, bachelor, master parson, master vicar,
and at the last cometh in simple sir John 5. And every man
reigneth over other with might; and have every ruler his
prison, his jailor, his chains, his torments; even so much as
the friars Observants observe that rule, and compel every
man other with violence above the cruelness of the heathen
tyrants: so that what cometh once in may never out, for fear
of telling tales out of school. They rule over the body with
violence, and compel it, whether the heart will or not, to ob-
serve things of their own making.

A rabble of
the pope's
guard, that
wear his
badge.

The pope's
kingdom is of
the world.

____________________
3 [That is, evening.]
4 [ S. and S. ed. this.]
5 [See Vol. I. p. 277, n. 3.]

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Publication Information: Book Title: Expositions and Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures: Together with the Practice of Prelates. Contributors: William Tyndale - author, Henry Walter - editor. Publisher: University Press of America. Place of Publication: Cambridge. Publication Year: 1849. Page Number: 249.
    
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