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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 how agreeth this your saying with that doctrine which you were wont earnestly to teach both by mouth and pen, that all the promises of God to us be made under condition, if our infidelity can not disappoint Gods promises? For then the promises of God must needs have place, whether we observe the condition or not.
1And how agreeth this your saying with that doctrine which you were wont earnestly to teach both by mouth and penne, that all the promises of God to vs be made vnder condition, if our infidilitie can not disappoynt Gods promises? For then the promises of God must nedes haue place, whether we obserue the condition or not.
- 1The promises of God under condition.The promises of God vnder condition.
But here you have fetched a great compass & circuit utterly in vain,§10 to reprove that thing which I never denied,1 but ever affirmed, which is, That the substance of the visible sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, (which I say is bread and wine in the sacrament, as water is in baptism) is all one substance to good and to bad, and to both a figure. But that under the form of bread and wine, is corporally present by Christs ordinance his very body and blood, either to good or to ill, that you neither have nor can prove, & yet thereupon would you bring in your conclusion here, wherein you commit that folly in reasoning, which is called Petitio principij.
But here you haue fetched a great compasse & circuit vtterly in vayne,§10