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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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Condescendens nobis benignus Deus, speciem quidem panis et vini seruat, in potestatem autemcarnis et sanguinis transelementat. And in English they be thus much to say. The merciful God condescending to our infirmity, conserveth still the kind of bread and wine, but turneth them into the virtue of his flesh and blood. To this sentence you do add of your own authority these words (the bread & wine) which words Theophilact hath not, which is an untrue part of him, that pretendeth to be a true interpreter. And by adding those words, you alter clearly the authors meaning. For where the authors meaning was that we should abhor to eat Christs flesh, and drink his blood in their proper form and kind, yet almighty God hath ordained that in his holy supper we should receive the forms and kinds of bread and wine, and that those kinds should be turned (unto them that worthily receive the same) into the virtue and effect of Christs very flesh and blood, although they remain still in the same ⟨p. 201⟩kind and form of bread and wine. And so by him the nature and kind of bread and wine remain. And yet the same be turned into the virtue of flesh and blood. So that the word, (forms) is the accusative case, aswell to the verb turneth, as to the verb conserveth, but you to make Theophilact serve your purpose, add of your own head two other accusative cases, that is to say (bread and wine) besides Theophilactes words, wherein all men may consider how little you regard the truth, that to maintain your untrue doctrine once devised by your selves, care not what untruth you use besides, to corrupt all doctors, making so many faults in translation of one sentence.
Condescendens nobis benignus Deus, speciem quidem panis et vini seruat, in potestatem autemcarnis et sanguinis transelementat. And in English they be thus much to say. The mercifull God condesending to our infermitie, conserueth still the kind of bread and wine, but turneth them into the vertue of his flesh and bloūd. To this sentence you do adde of yonr owne authoritie these wordes (the bread & wine) which wordes Theophilact hath not, which is an vntrue parte of him, that pretendeth to be a true interpretour. And by adding those wordes, you alter clearly the authors meaning. For wheare ye authors meaning was that we should abhore to eate Christes flesh, and drincke his bloud in theyr propre forme and kind, yet almighty God hath ordeyned that in his holy supper we should receaue ye fourmes and kindes of bread and wine, and that those kindes should be tourned (vnto them that worthely receaue the same) into the vertue and effecte of Christes very flesh and bloud, although they remayne still in the same