VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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So now the church of god is dowble / a fleshly and a spirituall : the one wilbe and is not: the other is and maye not be so called / but must be called a lutheran / an heretike and soch like. Vnderstonde therfore / that god when he calleth a congregacion vn to his name / sendeth forth his mesingers to cal generally. Which mesingers bringe in a greate multitude amased & astonied with miracles and power of the reasons which the preachers make / and ther with be compelled to confesse that there is but one god of power and might a boue all and that Christ is god and man and borne of a virgin and a thousand other thinges. And then the greate multitude that is called and not chosen / when they haue gotten this faith comune as well to the deuels as them and moare strongly persuaded vnto the deuels then vn to them / then they goo vn to their awne imaginacions sayenge: we maye no lenger serue Idoles / but god that is but one. And the maner of seruice they fett out of their awne braynes and not of the word of god / and serue god with bodily seruice as they did in times past their Idoles / their hertes seruynge their awne lustes still. And one will serue him in white / another in blacke / a nother in greye and a nother in pied. And a nother to doo god a pleasure with all / wilbe sure / that his showe shal haue .ij. or . iij. good thicke soles vnder and will cut him aboue / so that in somer while the wether is whott / thou maist se his bare fote and in winter his socke. They wilbe shorn and shauen and Saduces: that is to saye / rightewes / and phareses / that is / seperated in facions from all wother men. Ye and they will consecrat them selues all to gether vn to god and will annoynte their handes

154/11–12 misteries . . . christ. Cf. Col. 2.2–3. Answer has "misteries and secrete benefites"; NT has "mistery" (Wallis 421/1; TNT 296A).

This word church is taken .ij. maner wayes. [1531]

so] so be 1573

JAMES: 2.19: 105/21–22, 113/21, 144/30, 198/1,202/8

Frires [1531]

154/29 represent vs thys significacion. Cf. "represent vs this" (155/10). In both cases, "vs" is indirect object.

[Hand] [1531]

1 KINGS: 1.39: 105/33