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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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1No English can please you to this word (Infundo) but Latin English (as you call it) and that is such English as no English man can understand, nor Latin man neither, but only in that sense that I have englished it. And I pray thee gentle reader, consider the great weighty cause, why no English can please in this place, and thou shalt find it nothing else but ignorance,2 either of the speech or of God. Pouring (saith he) maketh a successive working, So doth infusion say I, and therefore in §3that respect as unfit a term as Pouring. But Gods work (saith he) is in an instant. So is his pouring (say I) and all that he doth, even aswell as his infusion. All mans works be done in succession of time (for a carpenter can not build a house in a day) but God in one moment could make both heaven and earth. So that God worketh without delay of time such things as in us require leisure and time. And yet God hath tempered his speech so to us in holy scripture, that he speaketh of himself in such words, as be usual to us, or else could we speak here and learn nothing of God. And therefore whether we say infusion or pouring, all is one thing, and one reason. For in us they be done by little and little, but God worketh the same suddenly in one moment.
1No English can please you to this word (Infundo) but Latine English (as you call it) and that is such English as no English man can vnderstand, nor Latine man neither, but onely in that sense that I haue englished it. And I pray thee gentill reader, consider the great weighty cause, why no English can please in this place, and thou shalt finde it nothing els but ignorance,2 eyther of the speach or of God. Powring (sayth he) maketh a successiue working, So doth infusion say I, and therfore in §3that respect as vnfitte a terme as Powring. But Gods worke (sayth he) is in an instant. So is his powring (say I) and all that he doth, euen aswell as his infusion. All mans workes be done in succession of tyme (for a carpenter can not build a house in a day) but God in one moment could make both heauen and earth. So that God worketh without delay of tyme such thinges as in vs require leasure and tyme. And yet God hath tempered his speach so to vs in holy scripture, that he speaketh of himselfe in such wordes, as be vsuall to vs, or els could we speake here and learne nothing of God. And therfore whether we say infusion or pouring, all is one thing, and one reason. For in vs they be done by little and little, but God worketh the same sodenly in one moment.