VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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that refuse the trouth who shall / god wyll kepe a numbre of his mercye / & call them out of blyndnesse / to testifie the trueth vn to the rest / that their damnacion maye be with out excuse.

The turcke / the Iew and the popish bild vppon frewyll and asscribe their iustifienge vn to their workes. The turke when he hath synned / runeth to the purifienges or ceremonies of Mahomete / and the Iew to the ceremonies of Moses / and the pope vn to his awne ceremonies / to fette forgeuenesse of their synnes. And the christen goeth thorow repentaunce towarde the lawe / vn to the faith that is in Christes bloude.

And the pope saith that the ceremonies of Moyses iustified not / compelled with the wordes of Paul. And how then shuld his iustifie? Moses sacramentes were but signes of promises of fayth / by whych fayth the beleuers ar iustified / and euen so be Christes also. And now because the Iewes haue put out the significacions of their sacramentes and put their trust in the workes of them / therfore they be Idolaters / and so is the pope for like purpose. The pope sayth that Christ dyed not for vs but for the sacramentes / to geue them power to iustifie. O Antichriste.

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xj.] The xj. Chapter. [1573]

His . xj. chapter is as true as his storie of vtopia and all his other poetrie. He meaneth doctoure Ferman person of hony lane. Whom after they had handelled after their secret maner and disputed wyth secretly and had made him swere that he shuld not vtter how he was dealte wyth / as they haue made many other / then they contriued a maner of dispicions had

dispicions] disputations [1573]