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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 say, that the senses can no skill of substances, because they m••be deceived therein, so may they also be in the accidents. For do not the sun and moon sometime look read by means of the vapours between us and them? And doth not spectacles make allthings look of the same colour that they be of? And if you hold up your finger directly between your eyes and a candle, looking full at the candle, your finger shall seem two, and if you look full at your finger, the candle shall seem two. And an age we maketh sweet things seem bitter, and that is sweet to one, is bitter to an other. And if a man having very hot hands, and an other very cold, if they handle both one thing, the one shall think it hot, and the other cold. So that the senses may err aswell in the accidents as in the substances, and can not err in the substances, except they err also in the accidents.
And where you say, that the sences can no skill of substances, bicause they m••be deceaued therin, so may they also be in the accidents. For doe not the sunne and moone sometyme looke redde by meanes of the vapors betwene vs and them? And doth not spectacles make althinges looke of the same colour that they be of? And if you hold vp your finger directly betwene your eyes and a candell, looking full at the candell, your finger shall seeme two, and if you looke full at your finger, the candell shal seeme two. And an age we maketh swete thinges seeme bitter, and yt is swete to one, is bitter to an other. And if a man hauing very hote handes, and an other very colde, if they handle both one thing, the one shall thinke it hote, and the other colde. So that the sences may erre aswell in the accidents as in the substances, and can not erre in the substances, except they erre also in the accidents.
But in speaking of substance, you declare such a substance,1 as never was, nor never shall be, fantasying substance by your imagination, to be a thing in it self, separated from all accidents, and so confounding the substances of all things, and mixing heaven and earth together, you make all substances but one substance without any difference. And where almighty God hath taught by his word,