VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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the will be nought / teach the witt better and the will shall alter and turne to good immediatly. Blindnesse is the cause of all euel and light the cause of al good: so that where the faith is right there the herte can not consent vnto euell / to folowe the lustes of the fleshe / as the popes faith doeth. And this conclusion hath he halfe a dosen tymes in his boke / that the will maye compell the witt and captiuate it / to beleue what a man lusteth. Verelye it is like that his wittes be in captiuite and for vauntage tangled with oure holy fathers sophistrie.

His doctrine is aftir his awne felynge and as the profession of his herte is. For the popish haue yelded them selues / to folowe the lustes of their fleshe / and compell their witte to absteyne from lokynge on the trouth lest she shuld vnquiet them and draw them out of the podell of their filthie voluptuousnesse. As a carte that is ouer laden goinge vp an hill draweth the horses backe / and in a tough mire maketh them stonde styll. And then the carter the deuel which driueth them is euer by and whistelleth vn to them and biddeth them captiuatt their vnderstondynge vn to profitable doctrine for which they shall haue no persecucion but shall raigne and be kynges and enioye the pleasures of the worlde at their awne will.

xiij.

In the .xiij. he saith that the clergie burneth no man. As though the pope had not first found the lawe / & as though al his preachers babied not that in euery sermon / burne these heretikes burn them