VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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[06]pe hath added to / as his oyle / his salt / his spitell / his candel and cresomcloth? And whi might she not praye all the prayars / except that Idole the pope be greater then the very god? yf wemen had brought a child to church and while the prest and other men taried the childe were in ieoperdy / might they not baptise him in the font / if there were no nother water by? And if other water were by / yet if that holpe better one mite / loue requireth to baptise him therein. And then why might not wemen twich all their other oyle? If a woman lerned in christe were dreuen vn to an Ile where christ was neuer preached / might she not there preach and teach to ministre the sacramentes and make officers? The case is possible / shew then what shuld let that she might not? loue thy neyboure as thy selfe doeth compel. Nay / she maye not consecrat. Whi? If the pope loued vs as well as christ / he wold finde no faulte therwyth / though a woman at nede ministred that sacrament yf yt be so necessary as ye make it. In bodily welth / he that wold haue me one ace lesse then hym selfe / loueth me not as wel as him selfe how moch moare ought we to loue one another in thynges pertaynynge vn to the soule?

Lev. 19.18, Matt. 19.19, Matt. 22.39, Mark 12.31, Luke 10.27, Rom. 13.9, Gal. 5.14, Jas. 2.8

M. Item that the host ys no sacryfyce. T. christ is no moare kylled. It is therfore the sacrament signe and memoriall of that sacrifice where wyth chryste offered hys body for oure synnes and commaunded saynge / thys doo in the remembraunce off me. We be not holpe with any visible dede that the prest there doeth / saue in that it putteth vs in remembraunce of christes deeth