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.

ceremonies] [1573], ceromonies [1531]

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.

Christe] om. [1573]

doeth] doth for [1573]

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