ne at all verely.

But the one partie must shew a miracle or else we must referre oure causes vnto autenticke scripture receaued in olde tyme & confirmed with miracles and therwith trie the controuersie of our elders.

And when he axeth whether there were no true faith from Adam to Noe. I answere / that god partely wrote their faith in their sacrifices / and partly the patriarkes were full of miracles as ye maye se in the Bible.

And when More / to vtter his darkenesse & blinde ignorauncie sayth / that they whych were ouerwhelmed with Noyes floude / had a good faith / and bringeth for him Nicolaus de Lira. I answere / that Nicolaus de Lira delirat. For it is impossible to haue a faith to be saued by excepte a man consent vn to gods law with all his hert and all his soule / that it is rightwysse / holy / good and to be kepte of all men / and there vppon repent that he hath broken it / and sorow that his flesh moueth vn to the contrary / and then come and beleue that god for his mercy wyll forgeue him all that he hath done agenst the lawe / and will helpe him to tame his flesh / and sofre his weakenesse in the meane season / till he be waxed stronger: which faith if they that perished in Noyes floud had had / they coude not but haue mended their liuinges and had not hardened their hertes thorow vnbeleffe and prouoked the wrath of god and waxed worse and worse an hundred and .xx. yeres which god gaue them to repent / vn tyll god coude no lenger sofre them / but whashed their filthinesses awaye with the flode (as he doeth the popes same abhominacions with like invndacions of water) and destroyed them vtterly.