VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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though they saye to daye this and to morow the contrarie / all is good ynough and gods worde: ye and though one pope condemne a nother (.ix. or .x. popes arow) with all their workes for heretikes / as it is to se in the stories / yet all is right & none erroure. And thus good night and good rest / Christ is brought a slepe and layde in his graue and the dore seled to / and the men of armes aboute the graue to kepe him doune with polaxes. For that is the surest argument / to helpe at nede and to be rid of these babillinge heretikes / that so barke at the holy spiritualtie with the scripture / beinge therto wretches of no reputacion / nether cardenales ner bisshopes ner yet greate benefised men / ye and with out totquottes and pluralities / hauynge no holde but the very scripture / whervnto they cleaue as burres so fast that they can not be pulled awaye saue with very singgynge them of.

¶A sure token that the pope is antichriste.

And though vn to all the argumentes & persuasions which he wold blinde vs with / to beleue that the pope with his secte were the right church / and that god for the multitude will not sofre them erre / we were so simple that we saw not the sotiltie of the argumentes ner had wordes to solue them with / but oure bare faith in oure hertes yet we be sure and so sure that we can therin not be disceaued / and doo both feale and se that the conclusion is false and the contrary true.

For first Peter saith .ij. Peter .ij. there shalbe false teachers amonge you whych shall secretly brynge in damnable sectes / denyenge the lorde that bought them / and many shall