VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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good and euell is of god and the will is of god. As the power which the murtherar abvseth and wherwith he killeth a man vnrightwesly is off God and the will where with he willeth it. But the wekednesse of his will and crokednesse or frowardnesse where with he sleeth vnrightwesly / to auenge him selfe and to satisfie his awne lustes / and the cause whi he knoweth not the law of god and consenteth not to it / which law shuld haue informed his will and corrected the crokednesse therof and haue taught hym to vse hys will and his power right / is his blindnesses faute only and not gods. Which blindnesse the deuell hath poysoned him with.

M. Item matrimonie is no sacrament. T. Matrimonie is a similitude of the kyngdome of heuen / as are many thynges mo / like as it appereth by christ in the gospell.But who institute it to be a sacrament ? Or who at hys mariage was taught the sygnificacion of it? Who was euer bounde to receaue yt in the name of a sacrament. I wold to christes bloude that ye wold make a sacrament of yt vn to all men and wemen that be maried and vn to all other / and wold at euery mariage teach the people to know the benefyte off christ thorow the similitude off matrimonye. And I affirme that in the popis church there ys no sacrament. For where no significacion is / there ys no sacrament. A signe ys no sygne vn to him that vnderstondeth nought therby: as a speche is no speche vn to hym that vnderstondeth it not. I wold too christes passyon that ye wold let them be sacramentes whych christ institute and ordeyned for sacramentes . And then yff ye make of youre awne braynes .v. hundred therto I wolde not