VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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and christ is gods. If my faith be stedfast in the promises that I haue in Christes bloud / I nede but to praye mi father in Christes name and he shall send me a legion of angels to helpe me: so that my faith is lorde ouer the angels and ouer all creatures to turne them vn to my soules health and my fathers honoure / and maye be subiecte vn to no creature / but vn to gods worde in oure sauioure Christe only. I may haue no trust therfore in the saintes. If ye saye / ye put no trust in them / but only put them in remembraunce of their dutie / as a man desyreth his neyboure to praye for him / remembring him of his dutie /and as when we desyre our brethern to helpe vs at oure nede. That is false / for ye put trust in all youre ceremonies and all youre holy dedes and in whosoeuer disgyseth him selfe and altereth his cote from the comune facion / ye and euen in the cotes of them that be not yet saintes / aftir youre doctrine.

Yf a prest said masse in his gowne / wold ye not rise agenst him and slee him / and that for the false faith that ye haue in the other garmentes. For what honoure can those other garmentes doo to god moare then his gowne or profit vn to youre soules / seinge ye vnderstonde nought ther by? And therto in the collectes of saintes ye saye / saue me God and geue me euerlastinge life for the merites of this or that saint / euery man aftir his phantasie chosynge him some one sainte singularly to be saued by. With which collectes I praye you shew me how stondeth the deeth of Christe? Paul wold saye that Christ died in vayne if that doctrine were true.

gowne] 1573, gowue [1531]

some] om. 1573

And therto in as moch as ye saye / the saintes