Despite the revolutionary character of his work, Tyndale, like Luther, was staunchly opposed to social revolution. He wrote The Obedience of a Christian Man specifically to explain to his readers that there was a difference between exposing religious corruption and questioning secular rule.32 As far as he was concerned, Christ had taught people to love their enemy. If you were oppressed by the king or a lord, you should show your devotion to God though accepting your oppression, even if the king threatened you with death and seizure of all your property.33 Unsurprisingly, not everyone agreed. ‘If princes or rulers will deny [the scriptures] when they will be taken for faithful, the said people may deprive them their kingdoms and lordships,’ argued a French writer whose work was translated into English in 1536.34 As for the lords of the realm, by what right had they been appointed? According to Clement Armstrong, an evangelical London grocer writing in the 1530s, the lords had wrongly appropriated the trees and fields that God had given to the people. They had also unjustly appointed their relatives to enjoy the benefit of tithes exacted from farmers. Parliament was not mentioned in the Bible; therefore it should have no authority over the Church.