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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 as concerning the place alleged by you out of S. Augustine, let the §2reader diligently expend mine whole answer to S. Augustine,1 and he shall (I trust) be fully satisfied. For S. Augustine in his book De baptismo contra Donatistas (as I have declared in my book) speaketh of the morsel of bread and sacrament (which Judas also did eat as S. Augustine saith? And in this speech he considered (as he writeth Contra Maximinū ) not what it is, but what it signifieth, and therefore he expresseth the matter by Judas more plainly in an other place saying: that he did eat the bread of the Lord,2 not the bread being the Lord (as the other Apostles did) signifying thereby that the evil eat the bread, but not the Lord himself. As S. Paul saith that they eat and drink Panem & calicem Domini, the bread and the cup of the Lord, and not that they eat the Lord himself. §3And S. Augustine saith not (as you feign of him) that the substance of this sacrament is the body and blood of Christ, but the substance of this sacrament is bread and wine, (as water is in the sacrament of Baptism) and the same be all one, not altered, by the unworthiness of the receivers. And although S. Augustine in the words by you recited, call the sacrament of Christs body and blood, his body and blood, yet is the sacrament no more but the sacrament thereof, and yet is it called the body and blood of Christ, as sacraments have the names of the things whereof they be sacraments, as the same S. Augustine teacheth most playnly ad Bonifacium.
But as concerning ye place alleadged by you out of S. Augustine, let the §2reader diligently expend myne whole aunswer to S. Augustine,1 and he shall (I trust) be fully satisfied. For S. Augustine in his booke De baptismo contra Donatistas (as I haue declared in my booke) speaketh of the morsell of bread and sacrament (which Iudas also dyd eate as S. Augustine sayth? And in this speach he considered (as he writeth Contra Maximinū ) not what it is, but what it signifieth, and therfore he expresseth ye matter by Iudas more playnly in an other place saying: that he did eate ye bread of the Lord,