VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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moch as we be ouerladen with our awne / I se no cause why we shuld become Iewes / to obserue their ceremonies to.

And when he saith holy straunge gestures. I answere / for the holynesse I wyll not swere: but the straungenesse I dare well avowe. For euery prest maketh them of a sundrie maner and many moare madly then the gestures of Iackanapes. And when he saith that they were left from hand to hand sens the appostles tyme / it is vntrue. For the appostles vsed the sacrament as Christ did / as thou maist se .1. Corin .xj. Morouer the appostles left vs in the light and taught vs all the counsell of God / as Paule wittenesseth Actes .xx. and hid nothinge in straunge holy gestures and apes playe the significacions wherof noman might vnderstonde.

And a Christen man is moare moued to pitie saith he / at the sight of the crosse / then with out it. If he take pitie as English men doo / for compassion / I saye / that a Christen man is moued to pitie when he seith his brother beare the crosse. And at the sight of the crosse / he that is lerned in god / wepith not Christe with ignoraunt wemen / as a man doeth his father when he is deed: but morneth for his synnes / and att the sight of the crosse comforteth his soule with the consolacion of him that died theron. But their is no sight whether of the crosse or ought else / that can moue you to leue youre wekednesse / for the testament of god is not written in youre hertes.

And when he speaketh of prayenge at church who denyeth him that men might not praye at church or that the church shuld not be a place of prayar? But that a man coude not praye sa