is in vayne. Nay Paul / thou art vnlerned: goo to master More and lerne a newe waye. We be not most miserable / though we rise not agayne / for oure soules goo to heuen assone as we be deed / and are there in as greate ioye as christ that is rysen agayne. And I maruell that Paul had not comforted the Tessalonians with that doctrine / if he had wist it / that the soules of their deed had bene in ioye / as he did with the resurreccion / that their deed shuld rise agayne. If the soules be in heuen in as greate glorie as the angels aftir youre doctrine / shewe me what cause shulde be of the resurreccion.

And when he saith / whether the saintes do it them selues / or by intercession made to god / it maketh no mater / so we be holpe / it appereth bi his doctrine / that all is good that helpeth / though a man praye vn to the deuell / by whom many be holpe. Now in Christ we haue promises of al maner helpe & not in them. Where then is our faith to be holpe by Christ when we hope to be holpe by the merites of saintes? So it appereth that the moare trust we haue in saintes / the lesse we haue in Christe.

And when he bringeth in a similitude that we praye phisicions / though god can helpe vs / and therfore we must praye to saintes. It is not like / for they haue naturall remedies for vs whych we must vse & not tempte god. But the saintes haue no naturall remedies ner promise of supernatural. And therfore it can be but a false supersticious faith. And where no natural remedie is there god hath promised to help them that beleue in him. And moreouer when I praye a phisicion or surgion and trust to be holpe by them / I dishonoure god / excepte I first praye to god and be