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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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And when the Prophet David said in the person of Christ: I am a worm and not a man: by this negative he denied not utterly, that Christ was a man, but the more vehemently to express the great humiliation of Christ, he said that he was not abased only to the nature of man, but was brought so low, that he might rather be called a worm, then a man.
And when the Prophet Dauid sayd in the persone of Christ: I am a worme and not a man: by this negatiue he denyed not vtterly, that Christ was a man, but the more vehemently to expresse the great humiliation of Christ, he sayd that he was not abased onely to the nature of man, but was brought so low, that he might rather be called a worme, then a man.
This manner of speech was familiar and usual to S. Paul, as when he said: It is not I that do it, but it is the sin that dwelleth in me. And in an other ⟨p. 336⟩place he saith:1 Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the gospel. And again he saith:2 My speech and preaching was not in words of mans persuasion, but in manifest declaration of the spirit and power. And he saith also:3 Neither he that grafteth, nor he that watereth, is any thing, but God that giveth the increase. And he saith moreover: It is not I that live, but Christ liveth within me.4 And, God forbid, that I should rejoice in any thing, but in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. And further, We do not wrestle against flesh and blood,5