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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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1This author saith, that Emissen is shortly answered unto, and so is he if a man care §1not what he saith, as Hilary was answered and Cyril But else, there can no short or long answer confound the true plain testimony of Emissen, for the common true faith of the church in the Sacrament. Which Emissen hath this sentence, That the invisible §2Priest, (by the secret power with his word), turneth the visible creatures into the substance of his body and blood, saying thus: This is my body: And a•ayne repeating the same sanctification, This is my blood. Wherefore as at the beck of him, commaū ding the heights of heavens, the deepness of the floods, and largeness of lands were founded of nothing: by like power in spiritual Sacraments, where virtue commandeth, the effect of the trueth serveth. These be Emissenes words, declaring his faith plainly of the Sacrament, in such terms as can not be wrested, or writhed, who speaketh of a turning & conversion of the visible creatures, into the substance of Christs body & blood: he saith not into the Sacrament of Christs body & blood, nor figure of Christs body & blood, whereby he should mean a only sacramental conversion, as this author would have it, but he saith, into the substance of Christs body & blood, to be in the sacrament. For the words (substance) and (truth) be of one strength, & show a difference from §3a figure, wherein the truth is not in deed present, but signified to be absent. And because it is a work supernatural, and a great miracle, this Emissen represseth mans carnal reason, and succoureth the weak faith, with remembrance of like power of God in the creation of this world, which were brought forth out of time by Emissene, if Christs body were not in substance present, as Emissenes words be, but in figure only as §4this author teacheth.2