VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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wother wise thynke then that they were ordeyned to iustifie and that I shuld be holy therby / acordynge to the popis doctrine / as though god were better pleased when I sprinkle my selfe with water or sett vpp a candle before a blocke / then iff I fedde or clothed or holpe at his nede him / whom he so tenderly loueth that he gaue his awne sonne vn to the deeth for him / and commaunded me to loue him as my selfe?

the] 1573, that [1531]

JOHN: 3.16: 76/34–77/1, 113/18–19

Lev. 19.18, Matt. 19.19, Matt. 22.39, Mark 12.31, Luke 10.27, Rom. 13.9, Gal. 5.14, Jas. 2.8: 6/3, 7/31, 20/24, 27/29–30, 54/30, 56/7, 56/19, 64/30, 77/2, 96/15, 99/4–5, 148/17–18, 153/14–15, 153/18, 156/17–18, 161/23, 178/3–4, 181/16–17

126/2–4 S. Hierom and Augustine . . . beste. Cf. CWM 6/1.238/ 2–7. At the conclusion of his eulogy of the widow Paula (347–404), Jerome asks prayers of his deceased friend. Cf. Ep. 108, To Eustochium, (AD 404) (Par. 34 in PL 22.906; Par. 33 in CSEL 55.350–51; Par. 34 in 2NPNF 6.212). Unio Dissidentium (2.N8v) cites a passage where Augustine urges restraint in honoring saints. Cf. On True Religion (AD 390) 55.108 (CCL 32.256); in Augustine: Earlier Writings, tr. John H.S. Burleigh, LCC 6 (Philadelphia: Westminster , 1953) 280. Henry Walter (PS 3.126–27n2) cites a more affirmative passage from Augustine, not included in Unio, approving prayers to saints. Cf. On the Care to Be Had for the Dead (AD c421) 4.6 (PL 40.596; 1NPNF 3.542). Testimonies from Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine on prayer to the saints are given by P. Séjourné, "Saints (culte des)," Dictionnaire de Théologie catholique, 14 (1939) 905–15. Recent expositions are found in Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (U of Chicago P, 1982); Karl Hausberger, "Heilige/Heiligenverehrung, III, Anfänge," TRE 14 (1985) 646–51. (JW)

And when the people beganne to runne that waye / the prelates were glad & holpe to heue aftir with sotle allegories & falsifienge the scripture / & went & halowed the ceremonies / to make them moare worshepful / that the laye people shuld haue them in greater estimacion & honoure / & be afrayde to twich them for reuerence vn to the holy charme that was saide ouer them / & affirmed also that christes deeth had purchased soch grace vn to the ceremonies to forgeue sinne & to iustifye. O monstre / Christes deeth purchased grace for mans soule / to repent of euell & to beleue in Christ for remission of synne / & to loue the lawe of god and his neyboure as him selfe / which is the true worshepynge of god in the spirite / & he died not to purchesse soch honoure vn to vnsensible thynges / that man to his dishonoure / shuld doo them honourable seruice & receaue his saluacion of them.

be] to be 1573

126/10 promises . . . christes bloude. For a covenant in the blood of animals, cf. Gen. 15.9–21; for a new covenant in the blood of Christ, cf. Heb. 9.13–15.

purchased] 1573, purechased [1531]

JOHN: 4.23: 77/13

126/13 spake. Tyndale's Antwerp compositor may have been influenced by Low German "spreken" to give 1531's "sprake."

This I haue declared vn to you / that ye mighte se & fele euery thinge sensibly. For I entend not to leade you in darkenesse. Nether though twise .ij. cranes make not .iiij. wild gees / wold I therfore that ye shuld beleue that twise .ij. made not .iiij. Nether entend I to proue vn to you that Paules steple is the cause whi temes is broke in about Erith / or that teynterden steple is the cause of the decaye of sandwich hauen as Master Mo

126/17–18 faith ... in christes bloude. Cf. Rom. 3.25.

ye] he 1573

126/21–23 miracles . . . mesinger. Cf. CWM 6/1.239/26–29.

Teynterden steple 1531