VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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be so greatly greued / though I wold not geue my consent vnto so greate a multitude / partely for the bondage / and specially lest we shuld in time to come / the significacions of them lost / fall in to Idolatrie agayne and make holy werkes of them / after the ensample off the blyndnesse wherin we be nowe / but I wold haue the worde euer liuely preached out of the playne texte.

M. Item that all holy orders be but mennes inuencion. T. the office of an apostle / bisshope / prest / deacon / and wedowe / are of god: But as concerninge the shauinge / the oylenge and dyuersite of rayment and many degrees sens added therto / proue that they be not mens tradycions. But and ye wyll make sacramentes of the oylynge / shauynge / sherynge / and garmentes / put theyr significacions vn to them and let the kynges grace compell them to kepe them and I admitte them for sacramentes / and vntyll that tyme I hold them for the false signes of ypocrites.

M. Item that euery man and woman is a prest and maye consecrat the body of christe. T. in bodyly seruice if the officer appoynted be awaye / euery other person not only maye / but also is bounde to helpe at nede / euen so moch as his neyboures dogge. How moch moare then ought men to assiste one a nother in the health of their soules / at all tymes of nede? yf the man be awaye / the woman maye and is bounde to baptise in tyme of nede / by the lawe of loue / which offyce perteyneth vnto the prest only. Yf she be lady ouer the greatest ordeined by god / that she maie baptise / why shulde she not haue power also ouer the lesse / to ministre the ceremonies which the po