VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural

all that is promised me and christ hath purchased for me / and geue not a straw for them all.

v.

In the .v. chapter he falleth from al that he hath so longe swette to proue & beleueth not by the reason of the miracles / but by the comen consent of the church and that many so beleue. This man is of a ferre other complexion then was the prophete Elias. For he beleued a lone as he thought / agenst the consent by all likelyhod / of . ix. or .x. hundred thousand beleuers. And yet M. Mores church is in no nother condicion vnder the pope / then was that church agenst whose consent Elias beleued a lone vnder the kinges of Samary.

Our fayth may be grounded vpon men.[1573]

vj.

In the .vj. chapter & vnto the .xviij. he proueth all most nought saue that which neuer man denied him / that miracles haue bene done. But how to know the true miracles from the false were good to be knowen which we shal this wise do if as we take those for true sacramentes and ceremonies which preach vs gods worde / euen so we count them true miracles only which moue vs to herken therto.

Al true miracles prouoke vs to fayth and trust in God.[1573]

xvj.

Concerninge his .xvj. chapter of the mayde of Ipswich / I answere / that Moses warned hys Israelites that false miracles shuld be done to proue them / whether their hertes were fast in the lorde. And euen so christ and the apostles shewed vs before that lienge miracles shuld come / to peruerte the very electe / if it were possyble.

The mayde of Ipswich [1531]

And therfore we must haue a rule to know the true miracles from the false / or else it were impossible that any man shuld scape vndisceaued and continue in the true