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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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1An other authority they have of S. John Chrysostom, which they boast also to be invincible.2 Chrysostom (say they) writeth thus in a certayne homily De Eucharistia. Doest thou see bread? Doest thou see wine? Do they avoid beneath, as other meats do? God forbid, think not so. For as wax (if it be put into the fire) it is made like the fire no substance remaineth, nothing is left here: so also think thou that the mysteries be consumed by the substance of the body.
1An other authority they haue of S. Ihon Chrisostome, which they boast also to be inuincible.2 Chrisostome (say they) writeth thus in a certayne homily De Eucharistia. Doest thou see bread? Doest thou see wine? Do they auoyde beneth, as other meates do? God forbid, thinke not so. For as waxe (if it be put into the fire) it is made like the fire no substāce remayneth, nothing is lefte here: so also thinke thou that the misteries be consumed by the substance of the body.
- 1Chap. 22.
- 2Chrisostomus.
At these words of Chrysostom the Papists do triumph, as though they had won the field. Lo (say they) doth not Chrisostomus the great clerk say most plainly, that we see neither bread nor wine? but that (as wax in the fire) they be consumed to nothing,1 so that no substance remaineth? But if they had rehearsed no more, but the very next sentence that followeth in Chrysostom (which craftily and maliciously they leave out) the meaning of S. John Chrysostom would easily have appeared, and yet will make them blush, if they be not utterly past shame. For after the foresaid words of Chrysostom, immediately