VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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niuites and punisheth them diuersly. And if they knowlege their synne and mende / he healeth them agayne. But and if they harden and synne as beestes and will not amend / he destroyeth them vtterly / as the sodomites. And yet all soch haue no parte in the life to come.

he destroyeth . . . sodomites. Cf. Gen. 19.24–28.

But with his childern in whose hertes he writeth the faith of his sonne Iesus & the loue of his lawes / he goeth other wise to werke his lawes in their wil: & their peticions are his honoure and their neyboures welth: and that he will prouide them of al thinges necessarie vn to this life and gouern them that their hertes be not ouercome of euell. And he heareth them vnto his honoure and their euerlastynge saluacion / and purgeth them and teacheth them thinges wherof the popish and all they whose hertes the god of this world hath blynded to serue god with workes haue no fealynge.

And when he saith that the emproure and that counsell which decreed that images for the abuse shuld be put out of the church / were heretikes / it is moch easier so to saye than so to proue. Vnderstond there fore / that images were not yet receaved in the church in the tyme of S. Hierom / at the least waye generally / whether in some one place or no I can not tell. For .s. Hierome reherseth of one Epiphanius a bisshope in the contre of Cipirce and that the most perfecte of al the bisshopes of his tyme / how that the sayd Epiphanius and the bisshope of Ierusalem went to gether to bethel / and by the waye they entred

the emproure . . . heretikes. Cf. CWM 6/1.355/8–10.