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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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1And although you have excused your perversity by your false copy, yet here I will join an issue with you, that you did neither allege Hilary's §6words before truly, nor yet now do truly declare them. As for the first part you have confessed your self, that you were deceived by a false copy. And therefore in this part, I plead that you be guilty by your own confession. And as concerning the second part, Hilary speaketh not of the unity of Christ with the sacrament, nor of the unity of Christ with us only when we receive the sacrament, nor of the unity of us with Christ only, but also with his father, by which unity we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us, & also we dwell in the Father and the father in us.2 For as Christ being in his father, & his father in him, hath life of his father so he being in us, & we in him, giveth unto us the nature of his eternity, which he received of his father, that is to say, immortality and life everlasting, which is the nature of his Godhead. And so have we the Father and the Son dwelling in us naturally,3 and we in them, forasmuch as he giveth to us the nature of his eternity, which he had of his father, and honoureth us with it honoureth us with that honour which he had of his father. But Christ giveth not this nature of eternity to the Sacrament, except you will say ⟨p. 169⟩that the sacrament shall have everlasting life, as you must needs say, if Christ dwell naturally in it, after Hilary's manner of reasoning. For by the saying of Hilary, where Christ dwelleth, there dwelleth his father, & giveth eternal life by his son.
1And although you haue excused your peruersity by your false copy, yet here I will ioyne an issue with you, that you did neither aleage Hylaries §6wordes before truely, nor yet now do truely declare them. As for the fyrst part you haue confessed your selfe, that you were deceiued by a false copy. And therfore in this part, I plead that you be gilty by your own cōfessiō. And as concerniug the second part, Hylary speaketh not of the vnitye of Christ with the sacrament, nor of the vnity of Christ with vs onely when we receaue the sacrament, nor of the vnity of vs with Christ onely, but also with his father, by which vnity we dwell in Christ, and Christ in vs, & also we dwell in the Father and the father in vs.