VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural

as sone as they be rebuked / they repent: even so here / assone as they were better taught / they shuld immediatly knowlege their erroure and not resiste.

in other . . . resiste. Cf. CWM 8/1.467/28–468/8.

But they which maliciously maynetene opinions agenst the scripture / or that that can not be proued by the scripture / or soch as make no mater vn to the scripture and saluacion that is in christ whether they be true or noo / and for the blinde zele of them make sectes / breakinge the vnite of christes church / for whose sake they ought to suffre all thynge / and rise agenst their neyboures / whom they ought to loue as them selues / to slee them / soch men I saye are fallen from christe and make an Idole of their opinions. For except they put trust in soch opinions and thought them necessarie vn to saluacion / or with a cankred conscience went about to disceaue / for some filthie purpose / they wold never breake the vnite of faith or yet slee their brethern. Now is this a playne conclusion / that both they that trust in their awne workes / and they also that put confidence in their awne opinions / be fallen from Christe and erre from the waye of faith that is in christes bloude / and therfore are none of christes church / because they be not bilt vppon the rocke of faith.

But . . . scripture. CWM 8/1.481/20.

or soch . . . scripture. Cf. CWM 8/1.481/28–29.

and saluacion ... or noo. Cf. CWM 8/1.481/36–37.

/ soch] ed., (soch [1531], (such [1573]

Who they be that erre from the way of fayth.[[1573]

the vnite of faith. Cf. Eph. 4.13.

Ephesians 4.13

brethern] ed., bretern [1531], brethren [1573]

and for . . . brethern. Cf. CWM 8/1.482/7–14.

Now . . . workes. CWM 8/1.484/20–21.

and they . . . faith. Cf. CWM 8/1.484/26–29.

¶Faith is ever assayled and fought with all.

Faith. Dialogue, Bk. 1 argues for the inerrancy of the church: Ch. 18 on Matt. 23.2–3 as a foundational text; Ch. 20, against false interpretations of Scripture by the church; Ch. 21, for true interpretations ; Ch. 24, on the Apostles' Creed; Ch. 25, on the Ten Commandments; Ch. 25–26, on condemnations of heresies (CWM 6/1.101–62 passim).

Matthew
23.2–3YO