Even by God himself and by Christ his annointed;
Confirmed by th' Apostles, and of great antiquity:
See, how it is perverted by man's wicked iniquity,
To be called New Custom or New Constitution,
Surely a name of too much ungodly abusion.
Which our author, indifferently scanning in his mind,
In his simple opinion this cause he doth find:
That, by reason of ignorance which beareth great sway,
And also stubborn doctrine, which shutteth up the way
To all good instruction and knowledge of right: