whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do: but after their works do not: for they say, and do not.
Then came he to the second, and said like wise, and he answered and said: I will sir: yet went he not.
saying: The scribes and the pharises sit in Moses' seat,
Yee and they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders: but they themselves will not heave them with one finger.
¶ Peter and the other Apostles answered, and said: We ought more to obey God than men.
¶ Let every soul submit himself unto the authority of the higher powers. There is no power but of God. The powers that be, are ordained of God.
having a similitude of godly living, but have denied the power there of. Such abhor.
They confess that they know God: but with deeds they deny him and are abominable, and disobedient, and unto all good works discommendable.