VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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the spirituall (because he knoweth that man is lorde ouer all other creatures and they his servauntes made to be at his pleasure / and that it is not commaunded for the wyne or meate it silfe that man shuld be in bondage vnto his awne servaunt the inferioure creature) ceaseth not to serch the cause. And when he findeth it / that it is to tame the flesh and that he be alwaye sobre / he obeyeth gladlye / and yet not so supersticiouslye that the tyme of his disease he wolde not drinke wyne in the waye of a medicyne to recouer his helth / as David ate of the halowed breed and as Moses for necessite lefte the children of Israel vncircumcysed .xl. yeares / where of likelyhod some died vncircumcysed & were yet thought to be in no worse case then they that were circumcysed / as the children that died with in the eyght daye were counted in as good case as they that were circumcysed / which ensamples might teach vs manye thinges if there were spirite in vs. And likewyse of the holye daye / he knoweth that the daye is seruaunt to man / and therfore when he findeth that it is done because he shulde not be lette from hearinge the worde of god / he obeyeth gladlie / and yet not so supersticiouslye that he wolde not helpe his neyghboure on the holye daye and let the sermon alone for one daye / or that he wolde not worke on the holydaye / neade requyringe it / at such time as men be not wont to be at church / and so thorow out all lawes. And even likewyse in all ceremonyes and sacramentes he sercheth the significations and wil not serve the visible thinges. It is as good to him / that the preast saye masse in his goune as in his other apparell / if they teach him not some whate and that his soule be edefyed therbye. And as sone