kes of mercye . As if a brother or a sister lacke rayment or sustinaunce and ye be not moued to compassion ner fele their diseases / whate fayth haue ye then? No faith (be sure) that feleth the mercye that is in Christe. For they that fele that / be mercifull ageyne and thankefull.

But loke on the werkes of oure spiritualtie which wyll not only be iustified with werkes before the world / but also before god. They haue had all christendome to rule this .viij. hundred yeres / and as they only be annoynted in the heed / so haue they only bene kynge and emproure and haue had al power in their handes and haue bene the doers only and the Ieders of those shadowes that haue had the name of princes / and haue led them whother they wolde and haue brethed in to their braynes what they listed. And they haue wrought the world out of peace and vnite and euery man out of his wellfare and are become alone well at ease / only fre / only at liberte / only haue all thynge and only do nought therfore / only laye on other mennes backes and beare nought them selues. And the good werkes of them that wrought out of faith and gaue their goodes and landes to finde the pore / them deuoure they also alone. And what workes preach they? Only that ar to them profitable and wherby they raigne in mens consciences as god: to offer / to geue to be prayed for and to be deliuered out of purgatory and to redeme youre synne of them / and to worshepe ceremonies and to be shryuen and so forth.

And when Master More is come to him selfe & sayth the first fayth and the first iustifienge is geuen vs with out oure deseruinge. God be thanked / and I wold fayne that he wold de