VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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ther sustinaunce be gotten. Then thou must interpret soch cases excepte / though thou madest no mencion of them / at the makinge of thi vow. Some man wold saye / other shifte might be made: what then? If other drinke as whote as wine & of the same operacion / and other meate of the same power and vertue as flesh is / must be had / whi shuldest thou forswere wine or fleshe / seinge it is now no lenger for the taminge of thy bodi. And so forth of al wother / as I haue aboue declared.

And when he bringeth in the apostles / marters / confessoures and .xv. hundred yeres / it is cleane contrary. For they had no soch false imaginacion of chastite or of any other worke: but they vsed it to serue their neyboure and to avoyde trouble in time of persecucion and to be eased of that burthen that was to heuy for their weake shulders and not to compell god to thanke them for the liberte for which they be bound to thanke him.

] 1 Corinthians

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In the tenth he inveyeth and rayleth agenst that which nether he ner any fleshly mynded papiste can vnderstonde / as they haue no power to consent vnto the lawes of god. Which herein appereth / that they compell their brethern which be as good as they to do & beleue what they lust and not what god commaundeth. He affirmeth that marten saith how that we do no synne oure selues wyth oure awne wylle / but that god synneth in vs and vseth vs as a deed instrument and forseth vs ther vn to and damneth vs / not for oure awne deedes but for hys / and for hys awne pleasure / as he compelleth vn to synne for hys pleasure or rather he for hys pleasure synneth in vs. I saye / that a man synneth voluntaryly.