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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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And where you allege (as it were against me) the words of Hilary,1 that there is both a figure and a truth of that figure, for answer hereunto the truth is, that your matter here is gathered of an untruth, that I would have only a figure, where as I say plainly as Hilary saith, that ⟨p. 260⟩in the true ministration of the Sacrament is both a figure and a truth: the figure outwardly, and the truth inwardly. For bread and wine be sensible signs and Sacraments, to teach us outwardly, what feedeth us inwardly. Outwardly we see and feel bread and wine with our outward senses, but inwardly by faith we see and feed upon Christs true body and blood. But this is a spiritual feeding by faith, which requireth no corporal presence. And here I ask you two questions, One is this, whither Hilary say that the body of Christ is under the forms of bread and wine, and that corporally? If he say not so (as the Reader shall soon judge, looking upon his words) then stand I upright without any fall or foil: for Hilary saith not as you do. The other question is, whither Hilary do not say that there is a figure: let the Reader judge also, and see whither you be not quite overthrown with your own crook, in saying that Christs speech is not figurative. And yet the third question I may add also, why S. Hilary should say, that bread and wine be figures, if there be no bread nor wine there at all, but be taken clean away by transubstantiation? And where as for answer hereto you take the example §11of Jacob, who for his hairiness resembled Esau, and was (as you say) a a figure of Christs very humanity, you do like an unskilful Mariner, that to avoid a little tempest, runneth himself upon a rock. For where you make Jacob (who resembled Esau, and was not he in deed) to be a figure of Christs humanity, you make by this example, that as Jacob by his hairiness resembled Esau and was not he in deed, so Christ by outward appearance resembled a man, and yet he was no man in deed.
And where you alledge (as it were against me) the wordes of Hylarie,1 that there is both a figure and a truth of that figure, for answere hereunto the truth is, that your matter here is gathered of an vntruth, that I would haue onely a figure, where as I say playnly as Hylarie sayth, that