VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

LOCATION
KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural

for we haue no nother argument too conuince them and as though they comppelled not both kinge and emproure to swere that they shall so doo / yer they croune them.

Then he bryngeth in prouisions of Kynge Henry the . v. Of whom I axe M. More whether he were ryght heyre vn to englonde or held he the lande wyth the swerde as an hethen tyraunte / agenst all ryght. Whom the prelates / lest he shulde haue had leyser too herken vn to the trouth / sent in to fraunce / too occupie hys mynde in warre / and led him at their wil. And I axe whether his father slew not his lege kinge and true enheretoure vnto the croune and was therfore set vpp of the bisshops a false kinge to maynetene theyr falsehed? And I axe whether after that weked dede / folowed not the destruccion of the comenaltie and quenchynge of all the noble bloude.

xiiij.

In the .xiiij. he affirmeth that Marten luther saieth it is not lawfull to resiste the turke. I wondre that he shameth not so to lye seynge that marten hath written a singular tretice for the contrarye / besydes that in many other workes he proueth it laufull / if he invade vs.

xvj.

In the .xvj. he allegeth counsels. I axe whether counsels haue auctorite to make articles of the faith with out gods worde / ye and of thynges improued by gods worde?

He allegeth Augustine / Hierom and Cipriane. Let him put their workes in english and S. prosperus with them. Whi damned they the vnion of doctoures / but be cause the doctours are agenst them.