VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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the phareses had corrupte with the leuen of their false gloses and vayne fleshly tradicions. He made croked thynges streyght / as it is written / and rough smoth. Which is also to be vnderstonde of the scripture / which the phareses had made croked wrestynge them vn to a false sens with weked gloses / and so rough that no man coude walke in the waye of them. For when god said / honoure father and mother / meaninge that we shuld obey them and also helpe them at their nede / the phareses put this glose therto / out of their awne leuen sayenge: God is thy father and mother. Wherfore what soeuer nede thy father & mother haue / iff thou offer to god / thou art hold excused. For it is better to offer to god / then to thy father and mother and so moch moare meritorious as god is greater then they: yee and god hath done moare for the then they and is moare thy father and mother then they. As oures now affirme / that it is moare meritorious to offer to god and his holy deed saintes / then vn to the pore liuynge saintes. And when god had promised the people a sauioure to come and blesse them and saue them from their synnes / the phareses taught to beleue in holy workes to be saued by as if they offered and gaue to be prayd for. As oures / as ofte as we haue a promise to be forgeuen at the repentaunce of the herte thorow Christes bloud shedynge / put to / thou must first shriue thy selfe to vs of euery sillable / & we must laye oure handes on thine heed and whistell out thy synnes and enioyne the penaunce to make satisfaction . And yet art thou but loused from the synne only that thou shalt not come in to hell / but thou must yet sofre for every synne .vij. yeres in purgatory which is as whott as hell / ex

ISAIAH: 40.4: 44/28–29

LUKE: 3.5: 44/28–29

EXODUS: 20.12: 44/32–45/1

DEUTERONOMY: 5.16: 44/32–45/1

Matt. 15.3–6, Mark 7–9–13: 45/3–8