VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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And when he saith the heretykes haue no myracles. I answere / they nede not / so longe as they haue autenticke scripture.

And when he sayth God sheweth no miracles for the doctours of the heretikes. No moare he nedeth not / for all they preach / ys the scripture confirmed with miracles / and receaued many hundred yeres agoo. And therefore God nedeth not to shew miracles for them whyle they lyue to strength theyr preachynge. And to shew myracles for them when they be deed / to moue the people to praye to them and to put their trust in them / as ye doo in youres / were to make them Idoles and not sayntes.

And when he speaketh of miracles done in theyr church in tyme of persecucyon. I answere / those were not the miracles of youre church but of them that beleued the scripture and sofered for it / as the heretykes doo now. For ye had neuer persecucyon for youre false doctrine / which ye haue brought in besides the scripture / ner any that died for it: But ye persecute and slee / whosoeuer wyth Gods worde doeth rebuke it. And as for youre awne myracles of whych ye make youre boost / ye haue fayned them so grosly thorow out all youre legendes of sayntes / that ye be now asshamed of them and wold fayne be ryd of them if ye wyst how with honeste / and so wolde ye of a thousand thynges which ye haue fayned. And the cause why heretykes fayne no miracles as ye do / ys that they walke puerly and entend no falshed.

And whi the deuel doeth none for them / ys that they cleue fast to gods worde whych the deuell