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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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Saint Ambrose teacheth not the real and corporal presence of Christs body in the sacrament, as I have proved sufficiently in my former book, the 64. 81. and 82. leaves, and in mine answer unto you in this book. But against Transubstantiation he teacheth plainly, that after consecration not only things remain, but also that the things changed, still remain. And what is this, but a flat condemnation of your imagined Transubstantiation? For if the things changed in the sacrament do still remain, and the substances of bread and wine be changed, then it followeth that their substances remain, and be not transubstantiated, so that your untrue and crafty shift will not relieve your matter any whit, when you say, that the accidence of bread is bread, wherein all the world knoweth how much you err from the truth. And better it had been for you to have kept such sayings secret unto your self, which no man can speak without blushing (except he be past all shame) than to show your shameful shifts open unto the world, that all men may see them. And specially when the showing thereof only discovereth your shame, and easeth you nothing at all. For the accidences be not changed (as you say your self) but the substances. And then if the things that be changed remain, the substance must remain, and not be transubstantiated. ⟨p. 294⟩And S. Ambrose bringeth forth to good purpose the creation of §2the world, to show the wonderful work of God, aswell in the spiritual regeneration, and spiritual feeding and nourishing of the lively members of Christs body, as in the creation and conservation of the world. And therefore David calleth the spiritual renovation of man, by the name of creation, saying: Cor mundum crea in me Deus,