The co[n]futacyon of Tyndales answere made by syr Thomas More knyght lorde chau[n]cellour of Englonde

More.

If I sholde here call Tyndale by a nother name, yt were no nyk name at all / and yet wolde there some then say, that yt were not honest so to do / & this wyll some such folke say, [ C] as in the vyllanouse wordes of his spoken by this blessyd sa¦crament, wyll fynde no faute at all. But me semeth surely that at the fyrste herynge of such a shamell worde spoken by the mouth of such a shamelesse heretyque by this holy sa¦cramēt of Cryste: the hole crysten company present, sholde not be able to contayne them selfe from callyng hym knaue all wyth one voyce at onys.

Now where as there be for y^e sacramēt both of cōfyrma∣cyon & of holy orders, open & manyfest places in holy scry∣pture,* 1.1 aswell in the actys of the apostles as in the pistles of saynt Paule / by whych placys yt apperyth playnly that by the apostles handes layd vpon them whych were before ba¦ptysed, they had the holy goost geuen in thē / and by thandes of saynt Paule layd vpon Tymothee in makyng him prest,

he receyued of god a specyall grace wyth that holy order / [ A] and lykewyse the deacons by the puttynge of the apostles handes vppon them in the gyuynge them that order:* 1.2 Tyn¦dale telleth vs in his boke of obedyence that all this is no∣thynge, and that the laynge of the apostles handes vppon them was but a maner of the countre, as a man putteth his hande here vppon a boyes hed and stroketh yt when he cal∣leth hym good sone. were not the tyme well loste that were spent vppon Tyndale in allegynge holy scripture to hym, y^t can fynde in his herte thus to gyue yt a mokke in stede of an answere? he sayth that the scripture and the sacraments be not both of one authoryte / but he maketh them bothe a lyke when he mokketh them both a lyke.

Of matrymonye.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Actuum .8 Hebre. 6 2. Timoth. 1
• * 1.2

  Act••. 6