VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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re iesteth. Neuer the lesse this I wold were persuaded vn to you (as it is true) that the bildynge of them & soch like / thorow the false faith that we haue in them / is the decaye of all the hauens in Englande & of all the cities / townes / hie wayes & shortly of the hole comen wealth. For sens these false monstres crope vpp in to oure consciences & robbed vs of the knowlege of oure sauioure Christe / makynge vs beleue in soch pope holy workes & to thynke that ther was no nother waye vn to heuen / we haue not ceased to bylde them abbayes / cloysters / coleges / chauntrees and cathedrall churches with hie steples / striuinge & enuienge one a nother / who shuld do most. And as for the dedes / that pertayne vn to oure neyboures and vn to the comen wealth / we haue not regarded at all / as thinges which semed no holy workes or soch as god wold once loke vppon. And therfore we left them vnseneto / vntyl they were past remedie or past our power to remedie them / in as moch as our slowbelies with their false blessynges had iugled a waye from vs / that wherwith they might haue bene holpen in dew season. So that that syly pore man / though he had haply no wisdome to expresse his mynde / or that he durst not / or that master More fascioneth his tale as he doeth other mennes to iest out the trouth / sawe that nether goodwin sandes ner any other cause alleged was the decaye of sandwich hauen / so moch as that the people had no lust to maynetene the comen wealthe / for blynde deuocion which they haue to popeholy workes.

The building of Abbeies, cloysters & religious houses haue bene a great decay to the good state of this realme.

Subtile iuggling with wordes.[1573]

They that are in heauen do chiefly desire that we harken to God & do hys wyll.[1573]

All popishe imaginations are Idolatry.[1573]

We receaue all thinges of God our father for Iesus Christes sake hys sonne and our onely Sauiour.[1573]

We must doe all thynges of loue.[1573]

Rom. 14.[1573]

A difference betwene Christes naturall body, and a paynted Image.[1573]

Miracles were done by the saints to confirme theyr doctrine.[1573]

Dead bones may not be worshypped.[1573]

More reasoneth vntowardly.[1573]

God is like good in euery place.[1573]

The people were specially called to the Temple to behold the monuments there, wherby they might the better learne the mighty power of God.[1573]

The true beholdyng of the signe of the crosse.[1573]

The Church is a place of prayer.[1573]

God heareth our prayer in all places.[1573]

Ierusalem and the temple is destroyed.[1573]

God is present in all places alike.[1573]

All places are to be preferred where we may worship God most quietly.[1573]

Miracles were not done for the place but for the people.[1573]

Miracles done to draw the people to heare the worde of God.[1573]

All places must serue man, & not man bound to serue any place.[1573]

God is worshipped in our hartes, & not in any other place.[1573]

God cannot be serued with bodely seruice.[1573]

Our fayth may be grounded vpon men.[1573]

Al true miracles prouoke vs to fayth and trust in God.[1573]

The mayde of Ipswich & the maide of Kent were both false dissembling harlotes.[1573]

Such as were possessed with deuils fled from Christ.[1573]

A false delusion to bryng vs to Idolatry.[1573]

Our Lady dyd the mayde of Kent small pleasure.[1573]

A true exposition of the parable of the Samaritan.[1573]

All that God hath not planted shalbe plucked vp by the rootes.[1573]

Byshops should be seruauntes and not Lordes.[1573]

The Pope will not obey princes though God haue commaunded hym so to do.[1573]

Christes burthen is easie and gentle.[1573]

The salt of our Prelates is vnsauery.[1573]

We must beleue neither to much nor yet litle.[1573]

We are promised all thinges for our Sauiour Christes sake & not for the Saintes.[1573]

The virginite of our Lady.[1573]

Paules traditions were the doctrine of the Gospel.[1573]

The consecration.[1573]

Iustification of workes.[1573]

The Saboth day & holy dayes are made for vs & not we for them.[1573]

A good tale if it were long enough.[1573]

All beleue in God that haue the law written in their harts.[1573]

Popes may not be beleued without Scripture.[1573]

Counsailes ought to conclude accordyng to the Scriptures.[1573]

The cause why the Apostles wrote the Gospels.[1573]

The Pope and hys Cardinals erred in K. Henry the eights case.[1573]

M. Mores conclusion.[1573]

The surest way to oppresse true doctrine, is to lay the preachers fast.[1573]

A swarme of sectes set vp by the Pope.[1573]

The Pope by setting vp of false workes denieth the truth of gods word.[1573]

The popish church are persecutors but no suffere[r]s.[1573]

The chur[c]h of Christ is euer persecuted.[1573]

The church of Antichrist is the false church and euer the greater number.[1573]

The Pope is a deuelishe blasphemer of God.[1573]

The Pope is aboue kyng and Emperor.[1573]

The Pope persecuteth the word of God.[1573]

S. Paule describeth the Pope & his in their coulers.[1573]

Gods worde is the power and pith of all goodnes.[1573]

Confession.[1573]

The Pope and his are mighty iugglers.[1573]

In the Churche shall there be for euer, both good and euill.[1573]

The spirituall Churche of God are called Lutherans and heretickes .[1573]

The fleshly Churche serue God with workes of their owne.[1573]

The blasing of hypocrites.[1573]

The small flocke of Christ cometh to the word and promises of God.[1573]

Christ onely is the perfect comforter of the Christian.[1573]

The Christian man in all thinges seketh the honour of Christ.[1573]

The Christian seketh his saluation onely in Christ.[1573]

A pretye Antithesis betwen the Popes Churche & Christes litle flocke.[1573]

The Popish church aunswereth.[1573]

The litle flocke.[1573]

The Popes church.[1573]

The maner of the Popes cleargie.[1573]

Little flock goeth euer to wracke.[1573]

The Pope will not be tryed by scripture but the scripture must be iudged by hym.[1573]

None can minister the Sacramentes supersticiously but the Popes generation.[1573]

The naturall & carnall man sauoreth not the things that be of God.[1573]

God is fatherly to his elect members.[1573]

If we sinne of frailtie God is mercifull & ready to forgeue.[1573]

More a lying papist.[1573]

There is a church that sinneth not.[1573]

The carnall church sinneth.[1573]

The faith of them that be called, but not elect.[1573]

Christ dyd such seruice as all the Saintes could not do.[1573]

We may not trust to Saintes.[1573]

Prayer to Saintes is a great superstition.[1573]

Before Christ we vsed not to pray to Saintes.[1573]

The more trust we haue in Saintes, the lesse we haue in Christ.[1573]

We must first call vppon God, & then send for the phisition.[1573]

The fleshly mynded cannot iudge the thinges that be of God.[1573]

We may be bolde to resort to god, for he willeth vs so to do.[1573]

A purgatory visible, and a purgatory inuisible.[1573]

How you may know who be Saintes in heauen.[1573]

A straunge doctrine to pray to him for helpe that is dead & damned.[1573]

The Israelites were mo in number then the Iewes.[1573]

The Iewes committed Idolatry.[1573]

God euer reserueth a litle flocke.[1573]

More feareth not to worship an vnconsecrated hoste.[1573]

We must first know the true way & then agree in the same.[1573]

The myracles done by the prophetes and Apostles, was to confirme their doctrine.[1573]

Christ made the woman whole and not hys coate.[1573]

Miracles were done for the confirmation of doctrine.[1573]

A filthy chapter.[1573]

Moses bones.[1573]

The brasen Serpent.[1573]

God is a spirite and wilbe worshipped spiritually.[1573]

The Idolatrous person worshippeth the Image for the Saint.[1573]

Many thinges are altered for the abuses sake.[1573]

The true preaching of Gods worde remoueth theft and all other wickednes.[1573]

A good man may erre & yet not be dampned.[1573]

The myracles of Saintes confirme mans imaginations.[1573]

There were no doctours neither Apostles that did myracles to establishe the worshipping of Images.[1573]

Where true doctrine is set forth, there needeth no myracle.[1573]

Let the Papistes for lacke of scriptures come forth and do miracles .[1573]

Gods word is the touchstone to trie myracles.[1573]

Mahomets doctrine hath preuailed these viij. hundred yeares.[1573]

Where the Scripture is, there nedeth no miracles.[1573]

The preachers of the worde of God nede no miracles.[1573]

False doctrine was neuer persecuted.[1573]

The Papistes are ashamed of their Legend of lyes.[1573]

The deuill hath holpen Popes to their dignities.[1573]

The cause why the Turkes & Iewes can not come to the truth.[1573]

Popish doctrine nedeth miracles but Christes doctrine nedeth not now of miracles, for it was confirmed by Christ with myracles.[1573]

The Pope commeth in Christes name with false miracles.[1573]

The preachers of gods word confirmed the same with miracles whyle they were alyue.[1573]

God suffereth such as haue no loue to hys truth, to be deceaued with lying miracles.[1573]

In the Popish church all miracles are wrought by dead Saintes.[1573]

Our fayth may not be grounded onely vpon miracles, but vpon the worde of God.[1573]

The Apostles of Christe knew no such authoritie as the Pope now vsurpeth.[1573]

God to avoide heresies caused the scriptures to be written.[1573]

Where true faith is, there is repentaunce and amendment of life.[1573]

The elders in the time of the Iewes did erre.[1573]

The Scribes, Phariseis and Elders did erre.[1573]

The scripture was aucthorised by true myracles.[1573]

False bookes set forth by the Papistes.[1573]

The true church teacheth nothing but that which the scripture proueth and mainteineth.[1573]

The Papistes hide the scripture.[1573]

The scripture is the cause why men beleue the scripture.[1573]

The Papistes doctrine is not to be beleued without scripture.[1573]

The doctrine of the Papistes hath bene many times resisted by the scripture.[1573]

What thinges we finde in scripture.[1573]

The Papistes will neither by Gods lawe nor mans refraine from their wicked liuyng.[1573]

The Papistes will lose nothing that belongeth to them.[1573]

Christ deliuered the Iewes out of errour.[1573]

None have more care of the scripture, then those that beleue it not.[1573]

M. More reasoneth agaynst him selfe.[1573]

They that preach not Christ truly are murtherers.[1573]

The end of hipocrites.[1573]

Wit must first shew a cause, and then will is sturred to worke.[1573]

Popish doctrine concernyng Purgatory.[1573]

The pope, how he can both forgeue and reteine sinne.[1573]

Bodyly payne purgeth the body and not the soule.[1573]

M. More is of an euil opinion.[1573]

Faith in Christes bloud purchaseth forgeuenes of sinne.[1573]

There is no purgatory for hym that dyeth repentaunt & beleueth.[1573]

Purgatory is a tormenting Iayle as the Pope maketh it.[1573]

The Pope is Antichrist.[1573]

The fleshly children do naturally consent vnto lyes.[1573]

The fleshly mynded can never consent vnto Gods law.[1573]

The fleshly persecute them of the spirite.[1573]

The true church is not with out a signe or a miracle to proue that it is Gods church.[1573]

The popes life & doctrine is more wicked then the Turkes & all the heathen that euer were.[1573]

All glory and honour is to be geuen to the name of Iesu.[1573]

Purgatory is the foundation of Abbeyes, Colledges. &c.[1573]

M. More is a common iester and a scoffer.[1573]

The Papistes are cruell and vnmercyfull.[1573]

The oth of a witnes may be taken, but no man may be compelled to sweare & be a witnes.[1573]

A godly lesson.[1573]

M. More is a Iyer.[1573]

The Papistes are obstinate & will not repent.[1573]

A fond saying.[1573]

To minister Sacraments with out signification is to be lead in darkenesse .[1573]

Christes body in the Sacrament is not carnall, but spiritual.[1573]

Christe was sacrificed on the crosse once for all.[1573]

Christes Deacons and the popes Deacons differ much.[1573]

M. Mores fayth was a common fayth.[1573]

As good no lawe, as a law not executed.[1573]

Age is to be preferred before youth.[1573]

The chast vnchastitie of the Papistes is abhominable both to God and man.[1573]

The Pope iudgeth no sinne to bee sinne, and sinne to be no sinne.[1573]

A Priest by the Popes order may haue a whore, but not a wife.[1573]

Mores doctrine is superstitious.[1573]

The Pope forbiddeth mariage.[1573]

We were Idolaters when we came to Christ.[1573]

S. Paules doctrine is that priests shuld haue wiues.[1573]

More is a scoffer.[1573]

The office of the widdowes in the primatiue church.[1573]

Young widowes were forbidden to minister in the common seruice.[1573]

Fishe no better then fleshe, nor fleshe no better then fishe in the kingd[o]me of Christ.[1573]

Priestes compelled to put away their wiues.[1573]

Priestes must be endued wyth vertue and honesty.[1573]

The maner vsed both in generall counsailes, and also in parliamentes .[1573]

A practise vsed in all counsayles and Parlamentes.[1573]

The spiritualtie make heretickes of them that resist theyr power and will.[1573]

The chastitie of the Clergy perteineth to the temporalitie, as much as to the spiritualtie.[1573]

No oth is to be kept that is agaynst charitie or necessitie.[1573]

Tyndall doth here playnly proue More an hereticke.[1573]

That is euer best, that moueth man to the kepyng of Gods commaundementes .[1573]

Deuilish doctrine.[1573]

Christes natural body is not in the Sacrament.[1573]

The true seruice of God, what it is.[1573]

More had two wiues & therefore was Bigamus.[1573]

The Pope a cruell tyraunt.[1573]

The spiritualtie would not haue the scripture in Englishe.[1573]

If we be not giltie, we neede no pardon.[1573]

More woulde excuse the murther of Hunne.[1573]

More was a subtill Poet.[1573]

The hauyng of the Scripture in English is vtterly agaynst the myndes of the Popish Clergie.[1573]

The scripture was first deliuered to the people in their vulgare toung.[1573]

The ordinaries are hangmen to such as desire the knowledge of the scripture.[1573]

None can vnderstand the Scripture except he knewe Christ to be his iustification.[1573]

171/8–11 Eare confession and pardons were neuer confirmed by miracle.[1573]

171/15–18 The Popish spiritualitie are tyraunts & persecutors.[1573]

172/5–7 The wicked & monstrous doynges of the Pope.[1573]

172/23–26 All Sacramentes teach vs what to do, or what to beleue.[1573]

174/1–3 The Papistes are slaundrers of the Gospell.[1573]

174/15–19 We can do no good worke except we beleue that our sinnes are forgeuen in Christ.[1573]

175/23–25 The hearing of gods worde causeth repentaunce.[1573]

175/30–176/1 There can be no repentaunce in vs but god doth first worke in vs by hys grace.[1573]

176/7–14 All power that we haue to good or euil is of God: But the croked and naughty vsage of the same is of our owne cankerd & corrupt nature.[1573]

176/21–27 Matrimony can be no Sacrament except a doctrine be added therunto that the people may know the benefite of Christ that we haue by matrimony.[1573]

177/9–10 No Sacrament is without signification.[1573]

177/21–27 Women that are vertuous and discrete may in cases of necessitie minister the Sacramentes as well as the Priest.[1573]

178/27–31 The supper of the Lord is geuen vs to be a memoriall of his death once offered for all.[1573]

179/18–22 The corrupt and vayne disputations of men to proue christ to be really in the Sacrament.[1573]

180/9–14 The Sacrament of Christes body when it is faithfully ministred doth profite as many as do beleue in Christes death.[1573]

181/5–10 The true worshipping of the Sacrament, is to beleue that it is a true signe that Christ suffered death for vs.[1573]

181/32–182/2 The soules departed rest at Gods will & pleasure.[1573]

182/28–33 Saintes are not to be called vpon, for we haue no promise nor assuraunce that either they heare vs or can profite vs.[1573]

183/9–11 The children of god are obedient to hys lawes.[1573]

183/25–27 Images were not allowed in the primitiue church.[1573]

184/26–27 Images are not to be had in Churches.[1573]

185/25–29 The prayers of all good women are aswell accepted of God as the prayers of our Lady.[1573]

186/17–19 All falsehode is not espyed out in one day.[1573]

189/20–22 Vnlawfull vowes are not to be obserued.[1573]

190/7–9 All vowes are to be made wyth great aduisement.[1573]

190/15–17 We must vse Gods creatures for our necessitie.[1573]

190/23–27 All our abstinence & chastising of our selues, is to our owne profite .[1573]

191/4–5 More blasphemeth God.[1573]

191/14–18 Our dedes are euill, because we lacke knowledge to referre them vnto the glory of God.[1573]

191/26–29 The deuill is the blinder &/and keper of vs from the vnderstanding of gods/Gods wyll/wil. (In 1573 the same note is found at the bottom of Oo6v, p. 328 and the top of Pp1r, p. 329.)[1573]

192/6–8 We may not be curious to search gods secretes.[1573]

192/12–13 A Papisticall opinion.[1573]

192/24–26 Witte, reason, & iudgement goeth before will.[1573]

193/11–14 God is the first worker & bringger to passe of our well doynges.[1573]

193/29–31 The Christians seeke helpe of Christ.[1573]

194/3–4 O abhominable blasphemy.[1573]

194/14–16 Master doctour Ferman was a vertuous godly and learned man.[1573]

194/24–25 A true note to know hypocrites.[1573]

195/11–13 M. More is a iuggler with termes.[1573]

195/21–22 A lyuely description of our iustification.[1573]

196/9–12 The great mercy and kindenes of God moueth man to repentaunce .[1573]

196/14–16 The right order of our iustification.[1573]

197/4–5 Faith only apprehendeth our iustification.[1573]

197/23–26 There are diuersities of faith, and but one faith that iustifieth vs.[1573]

198/12–14 Out of a liuely and iustifiyng faith springeth good workes.[1573]

198/31–32 More is maliciously blynde.[1573]

199/7–9 An apt and proper exsample of loue.[1573]

199/19–21 God loued vs first, that we should loue him againe.[1573]

200/2–4 He that loueth God loueth hys neighbour.[1573]

200/7–8 Note here the mercy & goodnes of God.[1573]

200/13–16 Faith may be had without loue, but it is a barreine & naked faith.[1573]

200/32–201/1 The deuils Martyrs.[1573]

201/7–10 We must doe good workes of loue, and not for reward.[1573]

201/21–24 Our doynges can deserue nothyng, but Christe hath deserued for vs.[1573]

202/2–5 Iames reproueth false frutes and not a true and liuely fayth.[1573]

202/16–19 Fayth that will not woorke when oportunitie serueth can not iustifie .[1573]

203/14–17 Abraham beleued gods promises & therefore was iustified.[1573]

203/24–29 Hee that seeth hys neighbour in necessitie & hath no compassion on him, hath no fayth.[1573]

204/5–9 The Papistes preach workes that are profitable to them selues.[1573]

204/24–30 When we haue offended God we must returne quickly by repentaunce and call vpon God to heare vs for Christ our Sauiours sake.[1573]

205/9–14 As we haue receaued at the hand of God mercy, so must we shewe mercy to our neyghbours.[1573]

205/31–206/1 He that loueth hys neighbour for Christs sake the same is righteous.[1573]

206/17–20 All our workes if they procede not of loue are nothyng.[1573]

206/26–29 Fayth in Christ maketh our small workes acceptable.[1573]

207/8–10 The righteous lyueth by faith.[1573]

207/16–18 Faith in Christes bloud doth onely iustifie vs.[1573]

207/32–208/3 Iohn Baptist and our Lady also were sinners & looked for the redemption in Christ.[1573]

208/12–16 There was neuer any but Christ that was without sinne.[1573]

209/18–20 The blinde and fond reasoning of More.[1573]

209/32–210/3 The difference betwene Peters fall & the fall of Iudas.[1573]

210/9–10 Iudas perished in desperation.[1573]

210/18–21 By Adam we are all made the children of the wrath of God.[1573]

211/9–13 God worketh by diuers to make vs to call vpon and to trust in his mercy.[1573]

212/8–9 Mores wittes are captiuated.[1573]

212/16 A prety example.[1573]

213/4–6 King Henry the 4. was an vsurper of the crowne.[1573]

213/12–13 The Turk is to be resisted.[1573]

213/20–22 The vnion of Doctors a good booke.[1573]

214/12–13 Eare confession.[1573]

215/13–15 Paule dyd excommunicate, but our Byshops do burne.[1573]