VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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make newe / or yf they be abused / put them out of the waye for euer / as was the brasen serpent / so that we be lordes ouer all soch thynges and they oure seruauntes. For if the sayntes were oure seruauntes / how moch moare their bones. It is the hert and not the place that worshepeth god. The kechen page turninge the spitt maie haue a purer hert to god / then his Master at church / and therfore worshepe God better in the kechen / then his master at church. But when wyll M. More be able to proue that miracles done at sayntes tombes / were done that we shuld praye vnto the sayntes / or that miracles done by deed saintes whych a liue nether preached gods worde ner coude doo miracle are done of god?

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

God loueth none angell in heuen better then the greatest sinner in erth that repenteth and beleueth in christ. But contrary wyse careth most for the weakest and maketh all that be perfecte their saruauntes / vntyll as paul saith .Eph. iiij. they be growen vpp in the knowlege of god in to a perfecte man and in to the measure of age of the fullnesse of christ / that is / that we know al the misteries and secretes that god hath hyd in christ / that we be no moare childern wauerynge with euery wynde of doctrine / thorow the sotiltie and wilinesse of men that come vppon vs to bringe vs in to erroure or begile vs. So ferre it is of that he wold haue vs kept downe to serue images. For with bodyly seruice we can serue nothinge that is a spirite. And therto if it were possyble that all the angeles of heuen coude be mine enimies: yet wold I hold me by the testament that my mercyfull and true father hath made me in the bloude off my sauyoure / and so come vnto

The father careth most for the youngest. [1531]

Ephe. 4. [1531]

God cannot be serued with bodely seruice.[1573]