VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural

simpell people vnder / they compell them to serue their lustes and wily tiranny / with out respecte of any comen welth. Whych wily tiranny / because the trueth rebuketh it / is the cause why they persecute it / lest the comen people seynge how good they shulde be and felynge how weked they are / shuld wythdraw their neckes from their vnrightwesse yocke. As ye haue ensample in Herode / in the scribes and Phareses and in many other.

M. Item that there is no purgatory. T. beleue in Christ and thou shalt shortely finde purgatoryes ynow / as ye now make other fele.

M. Item that all soules lye and slepe tyll domes daye. T. and ye in puttynge them in heuen hell and purgatory / destroye the argumentes wherewith Christ and paule proue the resurreccion. What god doeth with them / that shall we know when we come to them. The true fayth putteth the resurreccion which we be warned to lokefore euery houre. The hethen philosophoures denyenge that / did put that the soules did euer liue. And the pope ioyneth the spirituall doctrine of christe and the fleshly doctrine of philosophers to gether / thynges so contrary that they can not agre / no moare then the spirite and the flesh do in a Christen man. And because the fleshly mynded pope consenteth vn to hethen doctrine / ther fore he corrupteth the scripture to stablish it. Moses sayth in Deute. / the secret thynges perteyne vn to the lorde / and the thynges that be opened pertayne vn to vs / that we doo all that is written in the boke. Wherfore Sir if we loued the lawes of god and wold occupye our selues to fulfill them / and wolde on the other syde be meke and lett god alone with his secretes and