VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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But assone as the generacion of them that saw the miracles of god were deed / they fell to Idolatrie immediatly as thou seist in the bible. And god when he had delyuered them in to captiuite for to chastise their wekednesse / stered them vpp a prophete euer moare / to call them vn to his testament agayne. And so he did wellnye an hundred tymes / I suppose / yer Christ came / for they neuer bode any space in the right faith. And agenst the comynge of Christ the scribes / Phareses / Caiphas / Anna / and the elders / were crepte vpp in to the sete of Moses / Aaron and the holy prophetes and patriarkes and succeded them linially and had the scripture of god but euen in captiuite / to make marchaundice of it and to abvse it vn to their awne glorie & profitt. And though they kepte the people from outward Idolatrie of worshepynge of images with the hethen: yet they brought them in to a worse inward Idolatrie of a false fayth & trust in their awne dedes and in vayne tradicions of their awne faynynge. And they had put out the significacions of all the ceremonies and sacramentes of the olde testament and taught the people to beleue in the workes selfe / and had corrupte the scripture with false gloses. As thou maist se in the gospell / how Christ warneth his disciples to be warre of the leuen of the phareses which was their false doctrine and gloses. And in a nother place he rebuked the scribes and the phareses sayenge: wo be to them / because they had taken awaye the keye of knowlege and had shutt vpp the kingdome of heven and neyther wold entre in them selues ner sofre them that wolde. How had they shutt it vpp? verely with their tradicions and false gloses whych