VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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imageseruice / for the saint deliteth in no soch. And when thou stekest vpp a candle before the image / thou mightest with as good reason make an holow bely in the image and powre in meate and drincke. For as the saynt nether eateth ner drincketh / so hath he no bodyly eyes to delyte in the light of a candle.

A nother is this / god geueth not the promises that are in Christ for bodyly seruice / but of his mercy only / vn to his awne glorie. Ye and of the fathers goodnesse doo all naturall childern receaue. Axe a litle boye / who gaue him his gaye cote / he answereth / his father. Axe him whi / and he answereth / because he is his father and loueth him / and because he ys his sonne. Axe him whether his father loue him / and he saith ye. Ax him how he knoweth it and he saith / because he geueth me this or that. Axe him whether he loue his father / he saith ye. Axe him whi / he saith / for his father loueth him and geueth him all thynge. Axe him why he worketh / he answereth / his father will so haue it. Axe him whi his father geueth not soch and soch boyes cotes to. Nai saith he / they be not his sonnes / their fathers must geue them as myne doeth me. Goo now ye popish bond seruauntes and receaue youre rewarde for youre false workes and robbe youre brethern & raigne ouer them with violence and cruell tiranny and make them worshepe youre pilars / polaxes images and hattes. And we will receaue of the mercifull kyndnesse of oure father and will serue our brethern frely / of very loue and wilbe their seruauntes and sofre for their sakes. And therto oure good dedes which we do vn to oure neybours nede / springe out of oure rightwysenesse or iustifienge / which is the forgeuenesse of