VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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More. Christ rebuked not the Phareses for garnishinge the sepulchres of the prophetes but for that they folowed the condicions of them that slew them. Tindale. Yes & for their false trust in soch werkes as we doo you. And ye Sir thynke that ye deserue heuen in worshepynge the saintes bones / and be as redy to sle them that beleue / teach and liue as the saintes did / as youre fathers were to sle them: besydes that ye worshepe saintes that folowed Christ aftir the ensample of youre holy cardenall / of whom I doute not but that ye wil make a god in processe of tyme also.

Then repeteth he for forgettynge / how Eliseus bones reysed vpp a deed body. That was to confirme his preachinge only. For the Israelites / as weked as they were / nether prayed to him / nether kissed his bones / ner offered ner steked vpp candels before him. Which thynge if they had done in the kingdome of the Iewes / I doute not but that some good kynge wold haue burnt his bones to asshes / as wel as the brasen serpent / that was as greate a relique as deed bones. And Christ shewed miracles at the findynge of the crosse. That was to stablish the faith of Christes deeth & that it shuld be a memory of his deeth / and not that we shuld trust in the wod as we doo. For whych false abuse / the hole lande where Christ did his miracles / is destroyed.

Then he allegeth the woman that was healed / thorow twitchinge of Christes cote / because we shuld worshepe it. When Christ said hir faith hath made hir hole / not in the cote / but in Christe.