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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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Here the reader shall evidently see your accustomed manner, that when §1you be destitute of answer, and have none other shift, then fall you to scoffing and scolding out the matter, as Sophisters sometimes do at their problems. But as ignorant as I am, you shall not so escape me. First you bid the reader mark, that I talk of the sacrament, not as I teach my self: But I would have the reader here mark, that you report my words as you list your self, not as I speak them. For you report my question as I should say, that an unrepentant sinner should receive Christs body, where as I speak of the receiving of the sacrament of the body, and not of the very body it self.
HEre the reader shall euidently see your accustomed maner, that whē §1you be destitute of answer, and haue none other shyft, then fall you to scoffing and scolding out the matter, as Sophisters sometymes do at theyr problemes. But as ignorant as I am, you shall not so escape me. First you byd the reader marke, that I talke of the sacrament, not as I teach my selfe: But I would haue the reader here marke, that you report my wordes as you list your selfe, not as I speake them. For you report my question as I should say, that an vnrepentant sinner should receaue Christes body, where as I speake of the receauing of the sacrament of the body, and not of the very body it selfe.
Moreover I make my question of the being of Christs body in an unpenitent §2sinner, and you turn being into abiding, because being biteth you so sore. First you confess that an unrepentant sinner, receiving the sacrament,1 hath not Christs body within him, and then may I say that he eateth not Christs body, except he eat it without him. And although §4it followeth not, he received Christ, ergo he hath him in him: yet it followeth necessarily, he receiveth him, ergo he hath him within him, for the time of the receipt: As a bottomless vessel, although it keep no liquor, yet for the time of the receiving, it hath the liquor in it. And how can Christ depart from an unpenitent sinner (as you say he doeth) if he have him not at all? And because of mine ignorance, I would fain learn of you (that take upon you to be a man of knowledge) how an evil man receiving Christs very body, and whole Christ God and man (as you say an evil man doth) and Christs body being such as it cannot be