yer it bringe forth good frute / by christes doctrine then we make good workes but a shadowe where with a man is neuer the better. Naie Sir we make good werkes / frutes where by oure neyboure is the better and wherby God is honoured and oure flesh tamed. And we make of them sure tokens where by we know that our faith is no fayned imaginacion and deed opinion made with captiuynge oure wyttes after the popis tradicions / but a lyuely thinge wrought by the holygoste.

And when he disputeth / if they that haue faith / haue loue vn to the law and purpose to fulfill it / then fayth alone iustifieth not / how will he proue that argument? he iugleth with this worde alone: and wold make the people beleue that we said / how a bare faith that is with out all other companye / of repentaunce / loue and other vertues / ye and with out gods spirite to / did iustifie vs / so that we shuld not care to doo good. But the scripture so taketh not alone ner we so meane / as Master More knoweth well ynough. When an horse bereth a sadell and a man therin / we maye well saye / that the horse only and alone bereth the sadell / and is not holpe of the man in beringe therof. But he wold make men vnderstonde that we ment / the horse bare the sadell emptie and no man therin: let him marke this to se his ignoraunce / which wold god were not coupled with malice. Euery man that hath witte / hath a will to and then by master mores argument / witte only geueth not the light of vnderstondynge . Now the conclusion is false and the contrary true. For the witte with out helpe of the will geueth the light of the vnderstondynge / nether doeth the will worke