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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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1The greatest reason and of most importance, and of such strength (as they think) or at the least as they pretend, that all the world can not answer thereto, is this: Our saviour Christ, taking the bread, brake it, and gave it to his disciples, saying: This is my body. Now (say they) as soon as Christ had spoken these words, the bread was straight way altered and changed, and the substance §6thereof was converted into the substance of his precious body.
1The greatest reason and of most importance, and of such strength (as they thinke) or at the least as they pretend, that all the world can not answere therto, is this: Our sauiour Christ, taking the bread, brake it, and gaue it to his disciples, saying: This is my body. Now (say they) as sone as Christ had spoken these wordes, the bread was straight way altered and changed, and the substāce §6therof was conuerted into the substance of his precious body.
But what christen ears can patiently hear this doctrine, that Christ is every day made a new, and made of an other substance, than he was made of in his mothers womb? For where as at his incarnation he was made of the nature and substance of his blessed mother, now (by these papists opinion) he is made every day of the nature and substance of bread and wine, which (as they say) be turned into the substance, of his body and blood. O what a marvellous Metamorphosis and abominable heresy is this? to say, that Christ is daily made a new, and of a new matter? whereof it followeth necessarily, that they make us every day a new Christ, and not the same that was borne of the virgin Mary, nor that was crucified upon the cross, and that it was not the same Christ that was eaten in the supper, which was borne and crucified, as it shall be plainly proved by these arguments following.