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me no man maye come / saue a few flaterars whych ministre vn
to them all voluptuousnesse
and sarue their lustes at all poyntes. Which
flaterars
must first be corrupte with gyftes / yer a man
may come at the kinge. Then he saith / a man maye praye to
euery deed man. That me thinketh shuld be agenst the popes
doctrine and profite also. For he will haue no man prayed
to vntyll he haue canvesed him / I wold saye / canonised
him / and tyll god or at the lest waye the deuell haue
shewed miracles for him.
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M. More is agenst the
popes profite. [1531]
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Then he bringeth how one that was deed and in
the inuisible purgatory holpe a nother that was aliue and
in the visible purgatory.
This is a straunge case / that a man there maye
helpe a nother and
not him selfe. And a moare straunge case that
god heareth a man here for him selfe / beinge in his awne
purgatory and helpeth him cleane out / or easeth him if it
be to sore. But and he be in the popes purgatory god will
not heare him for him selfe / and that because
the pope might haue somewhat to deliuer him. And
the straungest case of all is that the pope is allmyghty
there and god can do there nought at all as the pope can
not here in this purgatori. But because
this is not gods worde ner like godis doctrine /
I thinke it no damnable synne to beleue it poetrie.
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Then how ye maye praye for them and to them /
tyll they be canonised:
and when they be canonised / but to them only / for then ye
be sure that they be in heuen. By what token? I maye be
as sure by the canonisynge / as I am that all the bisshopes
which the pope confirmeth
/ be holy men / and all the doctours that he
maketh wel lerned / and that all the prestes which he
annoyn
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