VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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open multitude called Gods church / at the comynge of Christ / as it is to se in the gospell / contrary vn to Master Mores deceytfull poetrye. And againe / god reserued him a litle flocke euer in Israel and had euer prophetes there / some tyme openly and some tyme in persecucion / that euery man must hide him selfe and kepe his faith secret: and euen in the houses of the euell kynges both of Iewri and also of Israel he had good people / and that amonge the hie officers / but secretly / as Nycodemus amonge the phareses. So that the very church was euery where oftimes in captiuite and persecucion vnder their brethern / as we be vnder oures in the kingedome of the pope.

Then he putteth no ieopardy to worshupe an vnconsecrated hoste. But with what worshupe men shuld worshepe the consecrated doeth he not teach / nether the vse of that sacrament or any other / ner how ought maie be worsheped but teacheth only that all thynges maye be worsheped / and sheweth not the right worshepe from the false.

Then he noteth Paule .1. Corin. 1. how he exhorteth vs to agre only / but not on the trueth or on the good / but only to agre a greate multitude to gether. O this depe blindenesse. Did not Paul first teach them the true waye? And did he not instructe them anew in the true waye and in the saide epistle rebuke the false confidence that they had in men / the cause of all their dissension and all erroures that were amonge them?

Then he saith / the Iewes had saintes in honoure / as the Patriarkes and Prophetes. We teach to dishonoure none: But the Iewes prayd