VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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world with his hie lernynge? And last of all the salt of oure prelates which ys theyr tradycions and ceremonyes wyth out sygnificacion ys vnsauerye longe a goo / and therfore no moare worth but to be cast out at the dores and to be troden vnderfote.

oure] om. [1573]

And that he sayth in the ende that a man maye haue a good faith with euell liuinge / I haue proued it a lie in a nother place. Morouer fayth / hope and loue be .iij. sisters that neuer can departe in this worlde / though in the worlde to come loue shal swalowe vp the other two. Nether can the one be stronger or weker then that other. But as moch as I beleue so moch I loue and so moch I hope: ye and so moch I worke.

that] the [1573]

xix.

xix.] The xix. Chapter. [1573]

In the .xix. he proueth that prayinge to saintes is good & miracles that confirme it are of god or els the church saith he doeth erre. It foloweth in dede or that the popis church erreth. And when he saith it is sinne to beleue to moch I saie we had the moare nede to take hede what we beleue and to serch gods worde the moare dylygently that we beleue nether to moch ner to litle.

And when he saith god is honoured by prayenge to saintes because it is done for hys sake: I answere / if it sprange not out of a false faith but of the loue we haue to god / then shuld we loue god moare. And morouer in as moch as all oure loue to god spryngeth out of faith / we shulde beleue and trust god. And then if oure fayth in god were greater then oure feruent deuocyon to sayntes / we shulde praye to no sayntes at all / seynge we haue promyses of all thynges in oure sauyoure Iesu and in the sayntes none at all.