VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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as good case as they can be & haue all the delectacion they can haue / & therefore to wish them in better case or to studie to doo them more pleasure then they haue / is fleyshly minded popishnesse. The pleasure of them that be in heuen is / that we herken to God and kepe his commaundementes / which when we doo / they haue all the pleasure that they can haue in vs. If in this life / I sofre hell gladly / to winne my brother to folow god / how moch moare if I were in heuen shuld I reioyce that he so did? If in this world when I haue nede of my neyboure / by the reason of mine infirmites / yet I seke nought of him / saue his wealth only / whate other thynge shuld I seke of him / if I were in heuen / where he can do me no seruice ner I vse any pleasure that he can do me?

The deuel desyred to haue his imaginacions worsheped as god / & his popish childern desyre the same / and compell men so to honoure them / and of their deuelish nature describe they both God and his saintes. And therfore I saye / al soch fleshly imaginacions / as to fast the wenisdaye in the worshepe of S. Ihon or of S. katerine or what saynt it be / or to fast sayntes euens or to goo a pilgremage vnto their images or to offer to them / to doo them pleasure / thinkynge therby to obteyne their fauoure and to make speciall aduocates of them / as a man wold winne the fauoure of a nother with presentes and giftes / and thinkynge that if we did it not / they wold be angrie / are playne Idolatrye and

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