The Book of Formation of the Patriarch Abraham

...authority, let it be restored, affirmed, and preserved from the foot of abuse into which it has fallen. If the Pope original: "pontifex", having been warned by you, does not do this immediately, by the very fact of his delay alone he must be considered removable and in actuality the Antichrist.

But truly, because I alone know how much modesty is to be recognized in all of you regarding a matter of such great importance, I take it upon myself to assert this authority on behalf of your order, intending to defend it with reason as my guide. For since it is my purpose to shake, break, and cast down the fortifications, walls, and ramparts of Babylon A common Reformation-era metaphor for the corrupt Roman Church as powerfully as possible, and since it is impossible for this to happen in any other way than by having reason, as leader, conquer and compel the minds of all into that opinion which your fellowship original: "sodalitium" stirred up long ago—even if none of you acknowledge this—nevertheless, I must exert myself all the more, the more you seem to pray against such authority. For otherwise, concerning the supreme power of the world...