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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 this is one pretty sleight of sophistry,1 or of a subtle warrier, when he seeth him self overmatched, and not able to resist, then by some policy quite to put of, or at the least to delay the conflict, and so do you commonly in this book of Transubstantiation. For when you be sore pressed therein, than you turn the matter to the real presence. But I shall so straitly §12pursue you, that you shall not so escape. For where you say, that the fathers (which used the examples of the Sacrament, and of the body and blood of Christ to show the unity of two natures in Christ did believe that as really and as truly the soul of man is present in the body, so really and so truly is the body of Christ present in the Sacrament: the fathers neither said nor believed as you here report, but they taught that both the Sacrament and the thing thereby represented (which is Christs body) remain in their proper substance and nature, the sign being here and the thing signified being in heaven, and yet of these two consisteth the sacrifice of the church.
And this is one prety sleight of sophistry,1 or of a subtill warrier, when he seeth him selfe ouermatched, and not able to resist, then by some policy quite to put of, or at the least to delay the conflict, and so do you commonly in this booke of Transubstantiation. For when you be sore pressed therin, than you turne the matter to the reall presence. But I shall so straytly §12pursue you, that you shall not so escape. For where you say, that the fathers (which vsed the examples of the Sacrament, and of the body and bloud of Christ to shew the vnity of two natures in Christ did beleue that as really and as truely the soule of man is present in the body, so really and so truly is the body of Christ present in the Sacrament: the fathers neither sayd nor beleued as you here report, but they taught that both the Sacrament and the thing therby represented (which is Christes body) remayne in their proper substaunce and nature, the signe being here and the thing signified being in heauen, and yet of these two consisteth the sacrifice of the church.
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