VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural

true apostles and loued vs after the doctrine of christ / wold sell their myters / croses / plate / shrynes / iuels and costly showes to socoure the pore and not robbe them / of all that was offered vn to them / as they haue done: and to repare thynges fallen in decaye and ruine in the comen welth / and not to bedger the realmes wyth false Idolatrye and imageseruice / that they haue not lefte them where wyth to beare the cost of the comen charges.

A true exposition of the parable of the Samaritan.[1573]

bedger] begger [1573]

the realmes] [1573], the / realmes [1531]

And Morouer when the scribes and phareses taught their awne doctrine / they satt not vppon Moses sete / but on their awne. And therfore christ (so far it is off that he wold haue vs herken vnto mans doctryne) sayde / bewarre of the leuen of the scribes / phareses and saduces which is their doctrine and rebuked them for their doctrine and brake yt hym selfe and taught hys dysciples so to doo and excused them / and sayd of all tradicions / that what soeuer his heuenly father had not planted / shuld be plucked vp by the rotes. And therto all the persecucion that the appostles had of the Iewes / was for breakynge of tradycyons.

scribes . . . Moses sete. Cf. Matt. 23.2, which More discusses at CWM 6/1.101/10–11, 104/25–33.

] Matthew

All that God hath not planted shalbe plucked vp by the rootes.[1573]

bewarre . . . doctrine. Matt. 16.6, 11; Mark 8.15, Luke 12.1.

Matt. 16.6, 11; Mark 8.15, Luke 12.1

rebuked . . . them. Cf. Matt. 12.1–8, Mark 2.23–28, Luke 6.1–5.

Matt. 12.1–8, Mark 2.23— 28, Luke 6.1–5

what soeuer . . . rotes. Cf. Matt. 15.13.

] Matthew

scribes . . . tradycyons. Cf. CWM 8/1.355/5–12, 356/7–9.

Oure prelates ought to be oure saruauntes as the appostles were / to teach vs christes doctrine / and not lordes ouer vs / to oppresse vs with theyr awne. Peter calleth it temptynge of the holy goste actes .xv. to lade the hethen with ought a boue that whych necessite and brotherly loue required. And paul rebuketh his corinthians for their ouer moch obedience and the galathyans alsoo and warneth all men to stonde fast and not to sofre them selues to be brought in to bondage.

Byshops should be seruauntes and not Lordes.[1573]

Oure prelates . . . awne. Cf. Luke 22.25–26.

] Luke

Actes .15. [1531]

Peter . . . required. Cf. Acts 15.10.

] Acts

paul . . . obedience. Cf. 2 Cor. 11.4.

] 2 Corinthians

galathyans . . . bondage. Cf. Gal. 5.1.

] Galatians