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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 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,2 that there be heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies, and that every seed hath his own proper body, and §3that all flesh is not one flesh, but the flesh of men, of beasts, of fish, and of foul be divers, you teach by your words, that all flesh is one flesh, and all substances one substance, and so confound you all flesh, with hogs flesh, making an hotch potch, like unto him that made a great variety of dishes all of hogs flesh. For take away the accidents, and I pray you what difference is between the bodily substance of the sun and the moon, of a man and a beast, of fish and flesh, between the body of one beast and an other, one herb and an other, one tree & an other, between a man and a woman? Yea between our body and Christs? and generally between any one corporal thing and an other? For is not the distinction of all bodily substances known by their accidents: without the which a mans body can not be known to be a mans body? And as substances can not be substances without accidents, so the nature of accidents can not be without substances, whose being & definition is to be in substances.
But in speaking of substance, you declare such a substance,1 as neuer was, nor neuer shalbe, phantasiyng substance by your imagination, to be a thing in it selfe, separated from all accidents, and so confounding the substances of all thinges, and mixting heauen and earth togither, you make all substances but one substance without any differēce. And where almighty God hath taught by his word,2 that there be heauenly bodyes, and earthly bodyes, and that euery seede hath his owne proper body, and §3