VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

LOCATION
KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural

with the helpe of the spirite / thorow prayar / fastynge and seruinge their neybours louingly with all maner seruice / out of the law that is written in their hertes. And their hope of forgeuenesse is in Christe only / thorow his bloude and not in ceremonyes.

162/32–33 testament . . . bloude. Cf. Heb. 9.14–16, 10.29, 13.20–21. Aquinas expounds the idea of "testament" (Summa III, Q. 78, Art. 3, Reply to Obj. 3–4).

V.

And vn to his .v. Chapter I answere / by the pope the scripture is hid and brought in to ignoraunce & the true sens corrupte. And by them that ye call heretikes we knowe the scripture and the true sens theroff. And I saye / that the pope kepeth the scripture as did the phareses / to make marchaundice of it. And agayne / that the heretikes become out of you / as out of the scribes & phareses came the appostles and Christ him selfe and Ihon Baptiste / and that they be plucked out of you and graffed in Christe and bilt vppon the fundacion of the appostles and prophetes.

And in the end / when he saith that the heretikes be faullen out of Christes mistical bodi which is the pope and his. I answere that ye be a misticall body and walke in the mist and will not come at the light / and the heretikes be departed out of youre mist and walke in the clere light of gods worde.

163/11–13 When . . . age. Cf. 1 Tim. 5.11–15.

vj.

In the .vj. he saith that the heretikes be all nought / for they all periure & abiure. He yet saieth vntrue. Many abyde vn to the deeth. Many for their wekenesse ar kepte out of youre handes. Many for their ouer moch boldnesse in their awne strength be deliuered in to youre handes & fall in the flesh / their hertes abydinge still in the trueth as Peter & thousandes did / & aftir repent

163/19–20 More . . . vnmaried. Cf. CWM 6/1.311/32–34.

163/21–22 Christes . . . ner drinke. Cf. Rom. 14.17.