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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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1Now whereas I have truly expounded this word (corporally) in Cyril,§2 when he saith that Christ dwelleth corporally in us, and have declared how that word (corporally) as Cyril understandeth it, maketh nothing for your purpose, that Christs flesh should be corporally contained (as you understand the matter) under the form of bread (for he neither saith that Christ dwelleth corporally in the bread, nor that he dwelleth in them corporally, that be not lively members of his body, nor that he dwelleth in his lively members at such time only, as they receive the Sacrament, nor that he dwelleth in us corporally, and not we in him: But he saith as well that we dwell in him, as that he dwelleth in us) and when I have also declared that Cyril's meaning was this, that as the vine and branches be both of one nature, so the Son of God taking unto him our humane nature, and making us partakers of his divine nature, giving unto us immortality and everlasting life, doth so dwell naturally and corporally in us, and maketh us to dwell naturally and corporally in him. And where as I have proved this by Cyril's own words, as well in that place in his tenth book upon S. Johns gospel the .xiii. chapter, as in his fourth book the .xvii. chapter, you answer no more to all this, but say that I seek in Cyril where it is not to be found, and seek not where it is to be found. A substantial answer be you sure, and a learned. For you do here like a keeper which I knew once, required to follow a suit with his hound after one that had stolen a dear, And when his hound was in his right suit and had his game fresh before him: and came near to the house and place where the deer, ⟨p. 175⟩was in deed, after he had a little inkling that it was a special friend of his that killed the dear, and then being loth to find the suit, he plucked back his hound, being in the right way, and appointed him to hunt in an other place where the game was not: and so deceived all them that followed him, as you would here do to as many as will follow you. For you promise to bring the reader to a place, where he shall find the meaning of this word (corporally) and when he cometh to the place where you appoint, the word is spoken of there, but the meaning thereof is not declared, neither by you nor by Cyril, in that place: