Deuteronomy 32:26-28

Bishops(i) 26 I haue sayde, I wyll scatter them abrode, and make the remembraunce of them to ceasse from among men 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemie, lest their aduersaries should vtterly withdrawe the selues, and lest they shoulde say: our hye hande hath done all this, and not the Lorde 28 For it is a nation voyde of counsayle, neither is there any vnderstandyng in them