VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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So now the church of god is dowble / a fleshly and a spirituall : the one wilbe and is not: the other is and maye not be so called / but must be called a lutheran / an heretike and soch like. Vnderstonde therfore / that god when he calleth a congregacion vn to his name / sendeth forth his mesingers to cal generally. Which mesingers bringe in a greate multitude amased & astonied with miracles and power of the reasons which the preachers make / and ther with be compelled to confesse that there is but one god of power and might a boue all and that Christ is god and man and borne of a virgin and a thousand other thinges. And then the greate multitude that is called and not chosen / when they haue gotten this faith comune as well to the deuels as them and moare strongly persuaded vnto the deuels then vn to them / then they goo vn to their awne imaginacions sayenge: we maye no lenger serue Idoles / but god that is but one. And the maner of seruice they fett out of their awne braynes and not of the word of god / and serue god with bodily seruice as they did in times past their Idoles / their hertes seruynge their awne lustes still. And one will serue him in white / another in blacke / a nother in greye and a nother in pied. And a nother to doo god a pleasure with all / wilbe sure / that his showe shal haue .ij. or . iij. good thicke soles vnder and will cut him aboue / so that in somer while the wether is whott / thou maist se his bare fote and in winter his socke. They wilbe shorn and shauen and Saduces: that is to saye / rightewes / and phareses / that is / seperated in facions from all wother men. Ye and they will consecrat them selues all to gether vn to god and will annoynte their handes

This word church is taken .ij. maner wayes. [1531]

so] so be [1573]

The spirituall Churche of God are called Lutherans and heretickes .[1573]

faith comune as well to the deuels. Cf. Jas. 2.19.

] James

The fleshly Churche serue God with workes of their owne.[1573]

Frires [1531]

[Hand] [1531]

The blasing of hypocrites.[1573]

Saduces. From Zadoc ("righteous"), high priest in the time of Solomon, cf. 1 Kings 1.39, or from Tzaddikim ("righteous men"). They denied the resurrection of the dead, the existence of angels and spirits, and the obligation of the unwritten law allegedly handed down from Moses.

] 1 Kings

phareses / that is / seperated. From perushim ("those who are separated") or perishut ("those who sanctify"). They were distinguished by their strict observance of the traditional and written law and by their claims to superior sanctity. For "Sadducees" and "Pharisees," cf. Illustrated Dictionary and Concordance of the Bible, gen. ed. Geoffrey Wigoder (New York: Macmillan, 1986).