VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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scribe me what he meaneth by the seconde iustifienge. I know no moare to doo / then when I haue receaued all mercy and all forgeuenesse of Christ frely / to goo and powre out the same vppon my neyghboure.

first iustifienge ... seconde iustifienge. Cf. CWM 6/1.391/20–27. More agrees that humans cannot merit the grace of Baptism but asserts that after Baptism they must perform good works. Tyndale rejects the logic of this second step, for what can supplement the one gift of God's mercy and forgiveness? (JB) However, More anticipates the position of Richard Hooker (?1554–1600), who distinguishes between the righteousness of justification and the righteousness of sanctification, cf. PS 3.203n1. Cf. "A Learned Discourse of Justification," in The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker 5, gen. ed. W. Speed Hill, Belknap (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990) 113/16–114/4.

M. Dauid lost not his faith / when he committed adultery. T. No / and therfore he coude not continue in synne / but repented assone as his faulte was told him. But was he not reconsyled by fayth only / and not by dedes? sayd he not haue mercy on me lorde for thy greate mercye and for the multitude of thy mercies put awaye my synne.

More [1531]

David [1531]

Dauid . . . repented. Cf. 2 Sam. 11–12.1–25. In a passage not found in Unio Dissidentium, Augustine contrasts David's single lapse into adultery with Solomon's continued submission to his idolatrous wives. Cf. Christian Doctrine (AD C396–97) 3.21.31 (CCL 32.96; 1NPNF 2.565).

] 2 Samuel

Tindale [1531]

] Psalms

Psal. 51. [1531] OX 204/S4 Psal. 51. The Hebrew number. In the two other instances where a psalm is identified, Answer follows the Vulgate number, cf. 63/7–9, 67/12–15nn. 204/19–20 haue mercy . . . my synne. Ps. 51.1. 204/21–22 make . . . reioyse. Ps. 51.8. 204/24–26 god . . . requireth. Cf. Ps. 51.16–17. 204/27–28 he wold . . . Ierusalem. Cf. Ps. 51.18. 204/29–30 we shall . . . agayne. Cf. Ps. 51.19.

And agayne / make me heare ioye & gladnesse / that the bones which thou hast broken maye reioyse. That is latt me heare thy voyce that my synne is forgeuen and then I am saffe and wyll reioyse . And afterward he knowlegeth that god delyteth not in sacrifices for synnes / but that a troubled spirite and a broken herte is that whych god requireth. And when the peace was made / he prayeth boldly and familiarly to god / that he wold be good to Sion and Ierusalem / and sayth that then last of all when god hath forgeuen vs of mercy / and hath done vs good for our euell / we shall offer sacrifice of thankes to him agayne. So that our dedes are but thankesgeuynge. When we haue sinned / we goo with a repentynge herte vn to Christes bloude / and there wash it of thorow faith. And oure dedes are but thankes geuenge to god to helpe oure neyboures at their nede / for which oure neyboures and ech of them owe vs as moch agayne at oure nede. So that the testament of forgeuenesse of synnes / is bylt vppon faith in christes bloude and not on workes.

] Psalms

] Psalms

] Psalms

204/24–30 When we haue offended God we must returne quickly by repentaunce and call vpon God to heare vs for Christ our Sauiours sake.[1573]

] Psalms

sinned . . . wash it of. Cf. Rev. 1.5.

] Revelation

testament of] Testament or [1573]

] Romans

Master More wyll runne to the pope for forgeuenesse a pena & culpa.

Pena culpa [1531]