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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 of your saying it followeth, that the bread is humanate or incarnate.§2 For if these words of Christ,1 This is my body, mean as you say, that bread is made Christs flesh, then as Verbum caro factum est, The word was made flesh, concludeth, that Christ was incarnate: So Panis caro factus est. The bread is made flesh, concludeth that the bread is incarnate, seeing (as you say) it is not annihilate.
But of your saying it followeth, that the bread is humanate or incarnate.§2 For if these wordes of Christ,1 This is my body, meane as you say, that bread is made Christes flesh, then as Verbum caro factum est, The word was made flesh, concludeth, that Christ was incarnate: So Panis caro factus est. The bread is made flesh, concludeth that the bread is incarnate, seing (as you say) it is not adnihilate.
- 1John. 1.Ihon. 1.
But of annihilation you write so strangely,1 that it seemeth you have written what you dreamed in your sleep, rather then what you learned of any author catholic or infidel. For who ever heard that annihilation could be wrought but by the only power of God? For the gentle philosophers write according to the nature, that Sicut exnihilo nihil sit, Ita nihil in nihilum redigitur. As nothing can be made of nought, so nothing can be turned into nought: So that as it is the work of God only, to make of nought, so it can be but only his work also, to turn things into nought. And what man being never so rude or popular, having any discretion at all, would define annihilation (as you do) that a defection of a creature from God, should be annihilation and turning into nothing? For so should all the angels that fell from God be annihilate, and so should likewise all apostates, and all other that by sin relinquish the army of God, and follow his adversary the devil,