VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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M. Item that men shuld not worshepe the holy crosse. T. wyth no false worshepe and supersticious fayth / but as I haue said / to haue it in reuerence for the memoriall of him that died theron.

M. Item Luther hateth the festes of the crosse and of corpus Christi. T. not for enuy of the crosse whych synned not in the deeth of Christ ner of malice towarde the blessed body of christ but for the ydolatrye vsed in those festes.

M. Item that no man or woman is bounde to kepe any vowe. T. lawfull vowes ar to be kepte vntyll necessite breake them. But vnlawfull vowes ar to be broken immediatly.

M. Marten appelled vn to the nexte generall counsell that shuld be gathered in the holy gost / to seke a longe delaye. T. of a trouth that were a longe delaye. For shuld Marten liue / tyll the pope wold gather a counsell in the holy gost or for any godly purpose / he were like to be for euery here of his heed a thousand yeres olde.

Then bryngeth he in the inconstauncie of Marten / because he saith in his later boke / how that he seith further then in his firste. Paraduenture / he is kynne to oure doctours whych when with preachynge agenst pluralities they haue gotte them .iij. or .iiij. benefices / allege the same excuse. But yet to saye the truth the very appostles of Christ lerned not all trouth in one daye. For longe after the ascencion they wist not that the hethen shuld be receaued vn to the faith. How then coude Marten (brought vppe in the blyndnesse of youre secte aboue .xl. yeres) spie out all youre falshed in one daye.

M. Marten offered at wormes before the emproure and all the lordes of germanye / to aby