VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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rish / because they conceyued not loue vn to the trouth / to besaued by / & therfore shall god send them stronge delusion or gyle / to beleue lies: the texte must also pertayne vn to a multitude gathered to gether in Christes name of whych one parte & nodoute the gretter / for lacke of loue vn to the trouth that is in Christe / to liue therafter / shall faull in to sectes & a false faith vnder the name of Christe & shalbe induratt and stablished therin with false miracles to perish for their vnkyndnesse. The pope first hath no scripture that he dare abyde by in the light / nether careth / but blasphemith that his word is truer then the scripture. He hath miracles with out gods worde / as all false prophetes had. He hath lyes in all his legendes in all preachinges and in all bokes. They haue no loue vn to the trueth. Which appereth by their greate synnes that they haue sett vpp aboue all the abhominacion of all the hethen that ever were / & by their longe continuaunce therin: not of frailte: but of malice vn to the trueth & of obstinatt lust & selfe will to synne. Whych appereth in .ij. thynges: the one / that they haue gotten them with wiles & falsehed from vnder all lawes of man & even aboue kinge & emproure / that no man shuld constrayne their bodies & brynge them vn to better ordir / that they maye synne frely with out feare of man. And on the other syde / they haue brought gods worde aslepe / that it shuld not vnquiet their consciences / in so moch that if any man rebuke them with that / they persecute him immediatly and pose him in their false doctrine & make him an heretike and burne him and quench it.

And Paul saith .ij. Timothe .iij. in the later dayes there shalbe perelous times. For ther shal