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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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But because the reader may know, what you have cut of, and thereby §6know Emissen's meaning, I shall here rehearse Emisenes words, which you have left out. If thou wilt know (saith Emissene) how it ought not to seem to thee a thing new and impossible, that earthly and incorruptible things be turned into the substance of Christ, look upon thy self which art made new in baptism. When thou wast far from life, and banished as a stranger from mercy, and from the way of salvation, and inwardly wast dead, yet suddenly thou beganst an other new life in Christ, and wast made new by wholesome mysteries, and wast turned into the body of the church, not by seeing, but by believing, & of the child of damnation, by a secret pureness thou wast made the son of God. Thou visibly didst remain in the same measure that thou haddest before, but invisibly thou wast made greater, without any increase of thy body. Thou wast the self same person and yet by increase of faith thou wast made an other man. Outwardly nothing was added, but all the change was inwardly. And so was man made the son of Christ, and Christ formed in the mind of man. Therefore as thou putting away thy former vileness diddest receive a new dignity, not feeling any change in thy body, and as the curing of thy disease, the putting away of thine infection, the wiping away of thy filthiness, be not seen with thine eyes, but believed in thy mind: so likewise when thou dost go up to the reverend altar to feed upon the spiritual meat, in thy faith, look upon the body and blood of him that is thy God, honour him, touch him with thy mind, take him in the hand of thy hart, and chiefly drink him with the draught of thy inward man. These be Emissen's own words. Upon which words I gather his meaning in his former words by you alleged. For where you bring in these words, that Christ by his secret power with his word turneth the visible creatures into the substance of his body and blood, straightways in these words by me now rehearsed, he showeth what manner of turning that is, & after what manner the earthly and corruptible things be turned into the substance of Christ, even so (saith he) as it is in baptism, wherein is no Transubstantiation.
But because the reader may know, what you haue cut of, and thereby §6know Emissens meaning, I shall here rehearse Emisenes words, which you haue left out. If thou wilt know (sayth Emissene) how it ought not to seeme to thee a thing new and impossible, that earthly and incorruptible things be tourned into the substance of Christ, looke vpō thy self which art made new in baptisme. When thou wast far from life, and banished as a stranger from mercy, and from the way of saluation, and inwardly wast dead, yet sodenly thou beganst an other new life in Christ, and wast made new by holesome misteries, and wast tourned into the bodye of the church, not by seing, but by beleuing, & of the child of damnatiō, by a secret purenes thou wast made the sonne of God. Thou visibly didst remayne in the same measure that thou haddest before, but inuisibly thou wast made greater, without any encrease of thy body. Thou wast the self same person and yet by encrease of fayth thou wast made an other man. Outwardly nothing was added, but all the change was inwardly. And so was mā made the sonne of Christ, and Christ formed in the mind of man. Therefore as thou putting away thy former vilenes diddest receiue a new dignity, not feling any chaunge in thy body, and as the curing of thy disease, the putting away of thine infection, the wiping away of thy filthines, be not seene with thine eyes, but beleued in thy minde: so likewise when thou doost goe vp to the reuerend aulter to feed vpon the spirituall meat, in thy fayth, looke vpon the body and blud of him that is thy God, honour hym, touch him with thy minde, take him in the hand of thy hart, and chiefly drink him with the draught of thy inward man. These be Emissens own wordes. Upon which words I gather his meaning in his former words by you alleadged. For where you bring in these wordes, that Christ by his secret power with his word turneth ye visible creatures into the substance of his body and bloud, straightwaies in these wordes by me now rehearsed, he sheweth what maner of turning that is, & after what maner the earthly and corruptible things be turned into the substance of Christ, euē so (saith he) as it is in baptisme, wherin is no Transubstantiation.