Answer to Thomas More, Index
The table of the boke
A
Abiure / whi manye abiure and faulle. Note. lxx
Abraham lxxxiij.
Accusars lxiiij.
Albe / what it signifieth xlv.
Allegoryes can proue nothynge lvij
Alone fayth iustefyeth C.xxiij
Altare / and what it signifieth xlv
Amice / and what it signifieth xlv
Answeres vn to. M. Mores first boke. xlix
Antichrist / a sure token that the pope ys antychryst lxij.
Apostles lefte nothynge vnwriten that is of necessite to be beleued. xiij
Appearaunce of godlinesse. lxiiij.
Argumentes that the pope ys not the true church of christ xxij.
Argumentes wherwith y• pope wold proue hymsilfe the church are solued. xxiij.
Austynes auctoryte whych sayth / I had not beleued the gospell excepte the auctorite of the church moued me / is expounded. xxviij.
Austyne complayned in hys tyme that the condicyon of Iewes was more easye then oures for the multitude of ceremonyes₊ xlv
B
Balam the false prophete vij. xij. lxxxvij.
Baptyse / why wemen baptyse. lix
Bartholome we. Note the storye lvj.
Bysshopes / why they were so called viij.
Bysshopes / & elders or prestes were all one thynge in the apostles tyme viij
Bodelye excercyse must be referred vntounto the tamynge of my flesh onlye xlix.
Brasen serpent. xlj.
Breed remayneth in the sacramente C.xj.
C.
Candels / and what they signifie. xlv. ….
Canonisinge. lxxiiij.
Ceremonyes / how they sprange emonge vsus. xlij
Ceremonies of the masse. xlv.
Ceremonies are the cause of oure depe ignoraunce in the scripture. xlvj.
Christen man or true membre of christes church sinneth not and how yet he is a synner. xvij.
Christen mā can not erre / and how he maye yet erre. xviij.
Christen / how farre a christen man is bounde to suffre. C.xvj.
Christes benefites towardes vsus are figured by matrimonye. xcv.
Christes memoriall. C.x
Church is vsed in thre significacions v
Church in his thirde significacion is taken two maner of wayes vj.
Church / whether it were before the gospell or y• gospell before the church xiij.
Church / whate the verye church is xvj.
Church / whether it can erre. xvj
Church hath a double interpretacion xxxj.
Church / y• church must shewe a reason of their doctyne lx.
Church is taken two maner of wayes. lxv.
Church is double lxix.
Chrisostomus C.xxix
Churlysh lxiiij
Circumcysion xxxix.
Cirenus burnt the images. C.xiiij.
Ciprian rebuked the false martyrs that trusted in their awne merites. C.xxiiij
Clargye hurte no heretikes C.xxxiij
Colet deane of poules shulde hauehave bene condēned of heresye for translatinge the pater noster in to englysh. C.iiij.
Consecrate C.ix.
Confession / eareconfession destroyeth the benefite of christes bloude. C.vij
Confirmacion / and why it was institute. Note. xliij.
Congregacion is better to be vsed then church and why he so translated it in the new testament. lxvij
Corporescloth what it signifyeth xlv.
Covetous lxiiij.
Covetousnesse xxxj
Counsels lxxj
Counsell / a generall counsell gathered in Grecia by the emperoures consent dyd put doune all images C.xiiij
Counsels generall are in captivite xcix.
Crosse C.xv
D.
Dauid xx
Dauid lost not his faith in committinge advoutrye. C.xxvij.
Deacons xcii.
Dishonoure what it is to dishonoure God / christ a rular or a mannes neyghboure. xxxiiij
Disobedient lxiiij
Dunce xxviij lxxxj.
E.
Elder is rather to be vsed then preast and why in the new testamēt he translated it senior. viij.
Elders or preastes and bisshopes were all one thynge in the appostles tyme viij
Elders / why they were so called. viij.
Eleccion and the maner and ordre of it xx
Elias. lv.
Epiphanius bisshope of cipresse did cutte an image in peces. Note C.xiiij
Erasmus hath improved manye workes which were falselie ascribed to holye doctoures lxxxiiij
Euticus was raysed from deeth by S. Paules merites sayeth Master More xc
Ezechias brake the brasen serpēt lxxvij C.xiiij
Fayth / what fayth saveth xvj
Faith and synne can not stonde to gether xvij
Faith is ever assayled ād fought withall xix
Faith / there are two maner of faithes an historicall faith and a felinge faith xxix.
Faith that dependeth of a nother mannes mouth is weake xxx
Faith / hope and love or charite are thre sisters inseperable in this life. lviij.
Faith is double lxx.
Faith that saueth lxxxiij
Faith C.vij
Faith cometh not of oure frewyl C.xix
Faith▪ that iustefyeth C.xxij.
Faith alone iustefyeth. Note C.xxiij.
Faith / David lost not his faith in committinge advoutrye C.xxvi…
Fayth the ryghtwyse mā lyveth by faith 128
Faith is vnderunder no lawe. C.xxx
Faithfull / a faithfull man or true mēbre of christes church / sinneth not: and how yet he is a sinner xvij
Faithfull man can not erre / and how he maye yet erre xviij
False faith proved by a sure token lj
False worshepinge xxxvj xl.
Fanon what it signifyeth xlv.
Fastynge to tame the flesh xli.
Father careth most for the yongest lv
Favoure he vsed in his translacyon & not grace and why xj.
Ferman / doctoure fermans handelinge C.xx
First frutes what they signified xxxix
Flappe on the amice & what it signifieth xlv.
Flappes on the albe & what they signifye xlv.
Flesh / the new life doth tame the flesh and serue her neyghboure lxix
Frewyll / the choyse of a mannes wyll doth naturallye folowe the iudgement of a mannes witte / whether he iudge right or wronge xx.
Frewyll is made fre by grace C.viij
Frewyll can not preuent grace nether prepare vsus vntounto it Note C.viij
Friars serve god with their awne invencions one in white a nother in grey lxv.
G
God dwelleth not in any place xxxviij
God dwelleth in the temple & how liij
God seketh vsus and we not him. Note lxix
Gospell / S. Ioans gospell xxxvj
Gregorye C.xiiij.
Grekes lxxxij
Handes / what the castinge abrode of the preestes handes signifieth xlv
Headye and prone to all michefe lxiiij
Heliseus healed Naaman / and his bones raysed vpp a deed man. li.
Heretikes be faullen out of the mist lxx
Hyeminded and proude lxiiij
Hierome C.xiij.
Holidaye xl.
Holye straunge gestures liij
Holye water / what it signifyeth xliij
Honouringe and what the worde meaneth. 33.
Honoure / what it is to honoure god / what to honoure rulars and what to honoure a mānes neyghboure xxxiiij.
Horsye was giltye of hunnes deeth C.iiij
Hunne was slayne preuelye in preson C.iiij:
I.
Idolatrye or imageseruice whence it springeth xxxix.
Idolatrye / a sure token of Idolatrie. Antistrephon in morum lj.
Iewes thynke they can not erre xxxj
Images xxxv.
Images C.xiij
Image / Epiphanius did cut an image C.xiiij.
Images Cirenus burnt images. C.xiiij
Images a generall counsell gathered in grecia by the emperours cōsent did put doune all images for the abuse C.xiiij
Ipswych / the mayde of ipswych. lv.
Iudas vij. xcij C.xxx.
Iudases parte is also played in the masse xlv.
Iudges xcj.
Iustefyinge / and the ordre therof C.xxj
K
Kent / the mayde of kent lvj
Kynge henrye of windsore lxxv.
Kynge henrye the fifte C.xxxij
Kinge Ihon v
Kinge willyam. v.
Knowlege he vsed not confession and why. xj.
L
Latria lxxvj
Lecherye xxx
Love / he vsed in his translacion louelove rather thē charite and why x.
Lovers of them selues lxiiij.
Lovinge lustes lxiiij
M.
Marten Luther appelled C.xv.
Martens inconstaunce C.xv
Marten offered to dispute. Note C.xv.Cxvj
Marten wold not receyve their iudges C.xvj.
Martē wyl abyde but by scripture only C.xvj
Marters / the pope hath no marters lxix.
Marters that sofered al a yere longe C.xxiiij
Masse with the ceremonies are declared xlv
Masse lix.
Masse C.x.
Master More destroyeth the resurrexion lxxij
Master More dryveth vsus from god lxxiiij
Master More is agēst the popes profite lxxiiij
Master More condemneth the latyn texte of heresye. viij
Master More feleth lxxxvij
Matrimonye C.ix
Mercye wayteth ever on the electe xx.
Michael wayeth the soules C.ij
Miracles li. lxxxj
Miracles / how to know true miracles ād how to knowe the false lvj
Miracles / the cause of false miracles lxxix.
Moses bodye was hid of god. lxxvj
N
Noe and Noes floude lxxxiij
O
Officers / a true officer in the sight of god. xxxv
Orders C.ix.
Orestes / was the sonne of Agamemnon kynge of Grecia / which slewe his awne mother because she conspired with Egistus vn to the deeth of agamemnon and after he fell mad / and vsed daylye to goo in to the place where men were wont to playe stage playes and there wolde he laugh and be as merye as though he had sene all the sporte in the worlde. At the last his frendes pitiynge him / counseled all coninge phisicions and with their diligence restored him vn to his helth agayne. Vvhen he was hole his frēdes came to visite him and reioysed of his helth But he sayed O deare frendes ye have vndone me: for before I was in all ioyeand pleasure ād now I se nought but all miserye & vanite. lvij.
Ornamentes xl.
Oute ladye C.xiiij
P
Panutius resisted in generall counsell and wolde not consent that prestes shulde hauehave no wyves. C.iij.
Parliamentes are in captiuite xcix
Paschall lambe xxxix.lij.
Payne of synne lxxxix.
Pax and what it signifyeth xliij
Pena et culpa C.xxvij
Peters fayth fayled not xxij.
Phisicyons / and how they helpe lxxiij
Piler of fyre liij
Pilgrimages lij. xxxviij
Pitye liij
Place whether god sette more by one place thē a nother liiij
Pope whether y• pope and his secte be christes church or no xxij.
Pope / a sure token that the pope is antichrist. lxij
Pope hydeth the scripture lxx lxxxiiij
Pope / the pope is antichrist lix
Pope / the pope hath no marters. lxix
Pope / why he felle lxxxj
Pope is not to be beleued with out scripture & why he is not the true church lxxxv
Popes leuen savereth not lxxxix
Pope and Luther are compared to gyther iudge reader which is y• better C.vj.
Prayers of an evell preest profite not xcij
Predestinacyon lxxxvj
Prelates / they can not spede well that trye oure prelates doctrine by the scripture lx.
Preest / prayers of an evell preest profite not xcij
Preestes. xciij
Preestes maye hauehave wyves xciiij
Preestes / why they maye not hauehave wyves apparent reasons of godlinesse xcv.
Preestes maye hauehave no wyves and whye C.
Preestes whether it were best that preestes were gelded or not C.iij
Processions are abused with songes of ribaudrye lxxvij
Promise breakers lxiiij
Proude lxiiij
Purgatorye that fearfull fyre xv
Purgatorye is as hote as hell and yet it is quēched with thre halfepence. xv.
Purgatorye lxxiiij lxxxviij lxxxix C.xij
Purgatorye as hote as hell lxxxvij
Purgatory / tindale denieth purgatory C.xxxiiij
R
Raylars lxiiij
Reliques lxx vj
Repentaunce he vsed / not penaunce & why xj
Repentaunce C.vij
Resurrexion Master More destroyeth the resurrexion lxxij
Riches bestowed on images or reliques xxxvij
S
Saboth may be chaunged to a nother daye lix
Sacramentes hauehave significacions xv.
Sacramentes xxxix
Sacrament of the altare / and how it must be receyved C.ij.
Sacrament C.vij
Sacrament / thouchynge of the sacrament. C.xj
Sacrifices. xxxix li. xciij C.x
Salt what it signifieth xlv.
Salue regina C.xv.
Sayntes C.xiij
Scripture / what if there had bene no scripture writen. Note lxxxij.
Sectes / whether the best se…es prayde to sayntes or not lxxviij lxxix
Siloe. liiij
Synne C.viij
Synne agenst the holye gost. Note a proper exposicyon. xij
Snares / the popes snares C.j
Solucions vntounto M. Mores first boke xlix
Soules slepe C.xij
Stole / what it signifieth▪ xlv
Supersticiousnesse x…xvij
Sweringe …
T.
Talmud xx…iij.
Temple …
Teynter densteple. …
Thomas hitton of Maydestone lxix.
Thomas of canterburye. v. lxxxj.
Thomas de aquino lxxxj.
Tindale fealeth. lxxxviij
Tindale swereth C.xxxiiij
Tindale denyeth purgatorye C.xxxiiij
Tot quottes xxxj
Tradicyons. lvij lviij
Translacyon / whether there be an old lawfull translacion and why it is not had C.v
Turkes xxxj
Turkes why they felle. lxxx
V
Vnbelefe onlye condemneth C.viij
Vngodlye lxiiij
Vnions. xxxj
Vnio dissidentium is condemned & why C.xvj
Vnthankefull lxiiij
Vowes C.xv C.xvij
Vowes must be co…icioned C▪
Vse of creatures in…riours to man xxxv
Vse of signes and ceremonies xxxiij
w.
water that the preest mingleth with wyne …ix.
wedowes xcvj.
wemen ix
wemen / why they maye baptise lix
welch men praye whē they goo a stelinge lxxvij
wyl whether it maye captiuate the witte C.xxxj
wilde Irish lxxvij
witches lxxviij
… leadeth the wyll C.xxxj
workes how they please god C.vij
workes C.xxij
workes how they iustefie C.xxv
workes of them selues iustefye not C.xxvij
workes are vnderunder the lawe C.xxx
worshepinge & what y• worde meaneth xxxiij.
worshepinge of sacramentes / ceremonies images / reliques and so forth xxxv
worshepinge of the holye crosse xxxv
worshepinge of images. xxxvj.
worshuppinge of god trulye xlix
worshuppinge of sayntes xlix
worshuppinge of sayntes trulye xlix.
worshuppinge of the sacrament. C.xij.
Finis ☜
End of the text · William Tyndale, Answer to Thomas More (1531)