VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural

and his worde is not in vs. And Paul .Roma. vij. saith / that good which I wold / that do I not / but that evell which I wold not / that do I. So it is not I that doo it (saith he) but synne that dwelleth in me. Thus are we synners and no synners. No synners / if thou loke vn to the profession of oure hertes towarde the law of God / on oure repentaunce and sorow that we haue / both because we haue synned and also because we be yet full of synne still / and vn to the promises of mercie in oure sauioure christe / and vn to oure fayth. Synners are we / iff thou loke vn to the frailtie of oure flesh / which is as the weakenesse of one that is newly recouered out of a greate disease / by the reason wherof oure dedes are imperfett. And by the reason where of al so / when occasions be greate / we fall in to horrible dedes / and the frute of the synne which remayneth in oure membirs breaketh out. Notwithstondynge yet the spirite leaveth vs not / but rebuketh vs and bringeth vs home agayne vn to oure profession / so that we never cast off the yocke of God from oure neckes nether yeld vpp oure selues vn to synne / for to serue it / but fighte afresh and begynne a new batayle.

ROMANS: 7.19–20: 30/17–19, 112/31–33

79/17–18 maior . . . minor. Tyndale accuses More of the fallacy of the "undistributed middle," of using the words "common," "church," "faith," and "good" in one sense in his major premise and another sense in his minor premise and thus drawing a false conclusion.

79/19–26 seruaunt . . . images. Cf. CWM 6/1.48/27–49/12.

79/19–20 seruaunt . . . sake. Cf. Matt. 10.40, Mark 9.37, Luke 9.47, John 13.20.

79/20–21 what . . . Christ. Cf. Matt. 25.40.

79/22–23 .xij. . . . christe. Cf. Matt. 19.28, Luke 22.30.

79/24–25 Mary . . . passion. Cf. Matt. 26.7, Mark 14.3, CWM 6/1.49/13–16, Answer 83/6–7n.

MATTHEW: 11.29–30: 30/31–32

ROMANS: 6.13: 30/32