VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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As the miracles done in Egipte / in the red se / in mount Sinay and so forth were not done that men shuld goo in pilgremage vnto the places to praye there / but to prouoke them vnto the true knowlege of god / that after warde they myght euer praye in the spryte / where soeuer they were. Christ also did not his miracles that men shuld praye in the places where he did them / But to stere vpp the people to come and heare the worde of their soules health. And when he bringeth the miracle of Siloe / I answere / that the sayde miracle and that christ sent the blynd thither to receaue his sight / were not done / that men shuld praye in the pole: but the seconde miracle was so done / to declare the obedient faith of the blinde and to make the miracle moare knowen / and the first for the worde of God / that was preached in the temple / to moue the contre aboute to come thither and lerne to knowe God / and to become a liuely temple / out of which they might euer praye and in all places. Nether was the miracle of lazarus done / that men shuld moare praye in that place then in a nother / but to shew christes power and to moue the people thorow wonderinge at the miracle / to herken vnto gods worde and beleue it / as it is to se playnly.

] Exodus

] Exodus

miracles done in Egipte. Aaron's rod, cf. Exod. 7.8–12; the ten plagues, cf. Exod. 7–12. red se. cf. Exod. 14.21–29.

] Exodus

mount Sinay. Cf. Exod. 24.16–17.

] Exodus

Siloe [1531]

Siloe . . . sight. Tyndale remembers the blind man told to wash in the pool of Siloam, cf. John 9.7. More refers to the paralytic who sat by the pool of Bethesda, cf. John 5.2–9, CWM 6/1.6o/30ff. O'Donnell has corrected the erroneous gloss of 1531 and 1573 from "Ioan 4" to "Ioan 5."

] John

] John

Ioan 5 .&. 9. [1531]OX ed., Ioan 4 [1531], Ioh. 4 [1573]

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

lazarus. Cf. John 11.1–44, CWM 6/1.61/18.

] John

Morouer God so loueth no church / but that the parish haue libertie to take it downe and to byld it in a nother place: ye and yf it be tymbre to make it of stone and to alter it at their pleasure. For the places / ye and the images must serue vs and not god which is a spirite and careth for none moare then other ner is other wise present in one then in a nother. And likewise ys yt of sayntes bones we maye remoue them whother we will / ye and breake all images therto and

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

god which is a spirite. Cf. John 4.24.

] John

one] one place [1573]

breake] [1573], kreake [1531]