VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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signe that they be the true church and ye not / in as moch also as christ saith / that the disceauers shall come with miracles: ye and in his name ther to / as ye doo. For when christ sayth their shall come in my name that shall saye he him selfe is Christe / who is that saue youre pope / that wilbe christes vicar and yet maketh men to beleue in him selfe / in his bolles and calues skinnes and in what soeuer he listeth. And who be those false annoynted that shall come with miracles to disceaue the electe if it were possible / saue youre pope with his gresiamus?

Mat. 24. [1531]

And when he repeteth his miracles / to proue that the old holy doctours were good men in the right beleffe. I answere agayne / that the doctours which planted gods worde watered it with miracles / while they were aliue. And when they were deed God shewed miracles at their graues / to confirme the same / as of Heliseus. And that continued till the scripture was ful receaued and autenticke. But ye can not shew / ner shall / any doctoure which beinge aliue preached youre false doctrine confirminge it with miracles / as god doeth his scripture.

Then saith he / God had in the old testament good men full of miracles / whose liuinge a man might be bold to folow and whose doctrine a man might be bold to beleue be reason of their miracles / and then iugleth sayenge: if god shuld not so now in the new testament haue doctours with miracles to confirme their doctrine and liuinges / but contrary wise shuld bringe to passe or sofre to be brought to passe with false miracles / that his church shuld take ypocrites for saintes / which expounded the scripture falsly / then shuld he disceaue his church and not haue his