VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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folow their damnable wayes / by whom the waye of trouth shalbe evel spoken of / and with fayned wordes they shall make marchaundice ouer you. Now saith Paul Roma. iij. the law speaketh vn to them that are vnder the law. And euen so this is spoken of them that professe the name of christe. Now the pope hath .x. thousand sectes cropen in / as pied in their consciences as in their cotes / settynge vpp a thousand maner workes to be saued by / whych is the denyenge of Christe. And we se many and all most all to gether folow their damnable wayes. And in that Peter said that they shall rayle and blaspheme the trueth / it foloweth that there shalbe a litle flocke reserued by the hand of god to testifie the trueth vn to them or else how coude they rayle on it? And it foloweth that those raylars shalbe the mightier parte in the world / or else they durst not do it. Now what truth in christ doeth not the pope rebuke and in settynge vpp false workes denie all to gether? And as for their fayned wordes / where findest thou in all the scripture purgatory / shrift penaunce / pardon /pena culpa / yperdulia and a thousande fayned termes moo? And as for their marchaundice / loke whether they sell not all gods lawes and also their awne / and all synne and all Christes merites and all that a man can thynke. To one he selleth the faute only and to a nother the faute and the payne to / and purgeth his purse of his money and his braynes of his wittes / and maketh him so beestely / that he can vnderstonde no godly thynge.

Rom. 3. [1531]

A swarme of sectes set vp by the Pope.[1573]

The Pope by setting vp of false workes denieth the truth of gods word.[1573]

[Hand] [1531]OX The Pope selleth sinne and paine & all that can be solde. [1573]

And Christ saith Mathew .xxiiij. their shal false anoynted arise and shew signes and wonders: that is / they shall shew miracles and so pre

Mat. 24. [1531]