VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural

goo to scole to lerne to doo better.

M. Item that the good and rightewesse man synneth all waye in doynge well. T. in all his werkes there lacketh some what and is a faute vntyll he doo them wyth as greate loue vn to his neyboure as Christ did for him and as longe as there is moare resistence in his flesh then was in Christes / or lesse hope in god: and then no lenger.

M. Item that no synne damneth a man saue vnbeleffe. T. whatsoeuer a man hath done / if he repent and beleue in Christe / it is him forgeuen. And so it foloweth that no synne damneth saue there where there is no beleffe.

Matt. 12.31–32, Luke 12.10

M. Item that we haue no frewyll to doo ought therwith / though the grace of god be ioyned therto / and that god doeth all in vs both good and bad and we doo but sofre as waxe doeth of the werke man. T. first when he affermeth that we saye / our wyll is not fre to doo good and to helpe to compell the membres / when god hath geuen vs grace to loue his lawes / is false. But we saye that we haue no frewyll to captiuat oure wittes and vnderstondynge / for to beleue the pope in what soeuer he saith with out reason geuinge / when we find in the scripture contrary testimonie / and se in him so greate falshed and dedes so abhominable and therto all the signes by whych the scripture teacheth vs to know antichriste.

And we affirme that we haue no frewyll to preuent god & his grace & before grace prepare oure selues therto / nether can we consent vn to god before grace become. For vntill god haue preuented vs & powred the spirite of his grace in to our