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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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And all they whych beleue that their
synnes be forgeuen them and they receaued as the scripture
testifieth / vn to the enheritaunce of heuen for Christes
merites / the same loue christ & their brethern for his
sake and doo all thynge for their sakes only / not once
thynkinge of heuen / when they worke / but on their bretherns neade. When they sofre them selues aboue might / then they comforte
their soule with the remembraunce of heuen / that this
wrechednesse shall haue an ende and we shall haue a
thousandfold pleasures and rewardes in heuen / not for the
merites of oure deseruynges but geuen vs frely for
Christes. And he that hath that loue hath the right faith.
And he that hath that faith hath the right loue. For I can
not loue my neyboure for Christes sake / excepte I first
beleue that I haue receaued soch mercy of Christe. Ner can I beleue that I haue receaued soch mercy of Christ / but that I must
loue my neyboure for his sake / seinge that he so
instantly desyreth me.
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And all . . .
heuen. Cf. Acts 13.38–39, Heb. 9.15.
] Acts
] Hebrews
201/21–24 Our doynges can deserue nothyng, but Christe hath deserued for
vs.[1573]
For . . .
Christe. Cf. Matt. 25.40, 1 John 4.11.
] Matthew
] 1 John
And all . . .
desyreth me. A passage recalling 107/2–14 on the freedom from
spiritual self-interest that flows from justification , a
centerpiece of Reformation piety. (JW)
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And when he allegeth S. Iames / it is answered
him in the mammon / and S. Augustine answereth him. And
saynt Iames expoundeth him selfe. For he saith in the first
chapter / God whych begatt vs
of his awne wyll with the worde of trueth /
which-worde of trueth is his promises of mercye and
forgeuenesse in oure sauioure Iesus / by
whych he begatt vs / gaue vs life & made vs a new
creature thorow a fast fayth. And Iames goeth and rebuketh
the opinion & false fayth of them that thynke it ynough
to be saued by / iff they beleue that there is but one god
and that Christ was borne of a virgen and a thousand thynges
whych a man may beleue. And yet not beleue in Christe / to
be saued from
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S. Iames
. Cf. Jas. 2.19–20 quoted by CWM
6/1.386/9–17. In the second edition of Dialogue
(May 1531), More added to Bk. 4, Ch. 11 a further explanation of the
relationship between faith and works (CWM 6/1.386/18–388/34, 6/2.557).
For other long additions to Dialogue,
cf. 79/9 and 184/2nn on images.
] James
Iames .2. [1531]
S. Augustine
answereth.
Unio Dissidentium (1. Q4v) quotes Augustine on
the reconciliation of Paul and James: "For the former [Rom. 3.28] is
speaking of the works which precede faith, whereas the latter [Jas.
2.20], of those which follow on faith." From CCL 44A.221; Eighty-Three Different Questions (AD C395–96),
end of Ch. 76, tr. David L. Mosher, FOTC 70
(Washington, DC: Catholic University of
America P, 1977) 196. In On Faith and Works (AD
412–13), Augustine explains that when Paul taught justification by faith,
not by the works of the law, he did not mean to denigrate the good works
that follow faith and the Spirit's gift of
love. James, then,
is one of the apostles who make it clear that faith without works of
love is of no avail. De fide et operibus, not
cited in Unio, was in vol. 6 of the Amerbach
edition of Augustine (Basel, 1506) and was printed separately at Cologne
in 1527 (PL 40.197–230; CSEL 41.35–97; ACW 48). (JW)
] Romans
] James
trueth / . . . trueth]
ed., trueth . . . trueth / [1531], truth, . . . truth, [1573]
begatt . . .
trueth. Cf. Jas. 1.18.
] James
a new creature.
Cf. 2 Cor. 5.17.
] 2 Corinthians
202/2–5 Iames reproueth false frutes and not a true and liuely fayth.[1573]
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