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

] Exodus

] Exodus

] John

] John

] 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

] John