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.

[Hand] [1531]

The surest way to oppresse true doctrine, is to lay the preachers fast.[1573]

¶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.

Antichrist [1531]OX The Pope is Antichrist. [1573]

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

2. Pet. 2. [1531]