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An answerAn aunsvvere
An answer by the Reverend Father in God Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and metropolitan, unto a crafty and sophistical cavillation, devised by Stephen Gardiner Doctor of Law, late Bishop of Winchester against the true and godly doctrine of the most holy sacrament, of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ Wherein is also, as occasion serveth, answered such places of the book of Doct. Richard Smith, as may seem any thing worthy the answering. Here is also the true copy of the book written, and in open court delivered, by D. Stephen Gardiner ...An aunsvvere by the Reuerend Father in God Thomas Archbyshop of Canterbury, primate of all England and metropolitane, vnto a craftie and sophisticall cauillation, deuised by Stephen Gardiner Doctour of Law, late Byshop of Winchester agaynst the true and godly doctrine of the most holy sacrament, of the body and bloud of our sauiour Iesu Christ Wherein is also, as occasion serueth, aunswered such places of the booke of Doct. Richard Smith, as may seeme any thyng worthy the aunsweryng. Here is also the true copy of the booke written, and in open court deliuered, by D. Stephen Gardiner ...
London: printed by John Daye, 1580London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1580
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A PREFACE TO THE READER.
I Think it good gentle Reader, here in the beginning to admonish thee of certain words & kinds of speeches, which I do use sometime in this mine answer to the late Bishop of Winchesters book, least in mistaking, thou do as it were stumble at them.
I Thinke it good gentle Reader, here in the begynnyng to admonish thee of certaine wordes & kyndes of speaches, which I do vse sometyme in this myne aunswere to the late Byshop of Winchesters book, least in mistakyng, thou doe as it were stumble at them.
First this word (Sacrament) I do sometimes use (as it is many times taken among writers and holy Doctors) for the Sacramental bread,1 water, or wine, as when they say, that Sacramentum est sacrae rei signum, a Sacrament is the sign of an holy thing. But where I use to speak sometimes (as the old Authors do) that Christ is in the Sacraments, I mean the same as they did understand the matter, that is to say, not of Christs carnal presence in the outward Sacrament, but sometimes of his Sacramental presence. And sometime by this word (Sacrament) I mean the whole ministration and receiving of the Sacraments, either of Baptism, or of the Lords Supper, and so the old writers many times do say, that Christ and the holy Ghost be present in the Sacraments, not meaning by that manner of speech, that Christ and the holy Ghost be present in the water, bread, or wine (which be only the outward visible Sacraments (but that in the due ministration of the Sacraments according to Christs ordinance and institution, Christ and his holy spirit be truly and in deed present by their mighty and sanctifying power, virtue and grace, in all them that worthily receive the same.