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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 it is not required, that the thing signified should be really and corporally present in the sign and figure, as the soul is in the body (because there is no such union of person) nor it is not required in the soul and body that they should be ever together, for Christs body and soul remained both, without either corruption or Transubstantiation, when the soul was gone down into hell, and the body rested in the sepulchre. And yet was he than a perfect man, although his soul was not than really present ⟨p. 304⟩with the body. And it is not so great a marvel that his body should be in heaven, and the sacrament of it here, as it is that his body should be here, and his soul in hell.
But it is not required, that the thing signified should be really and corporally present in the signe and figure, as the soule is in the body (bicause there is no such vnion of person) nor it is not required in the soule and body that they should be euer togither, for Christes body and soule remayned both, without eyther corruption or Transubstantiation, when the soule was gone downe into hell, and the body rested in the sepulcher. And yet was he than a perfect man, although his soule was not than really present ⟨p. 304⟩with the body. And it is not so great a meruayle that his body should be in heauen, and the sacrament of it here, as it is that his body should be here, and his soule in hell.
And if the Sacrament were a man, and the body of Christ the soul of §13it, (as you dream in your trance) then were the Sacrament not in a trance, but dead for the time, whilst it were here, and the soul in heaven. And like scoffing you might make of the Sacrament of Baptism, as you do in the Sacrament of Christs body, that it lieth here in a trance, when Christ being the life thereof is in heaven.