A19563:1911
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 as for the holiness of bread, I say now as I said before,1 that neither bread, wine nor water, have any capacity of holiness, but holiness is only in the receivers, and by the bread, water and wine is sacramentally signified. And therefore the marvellous alteration to an higher estate, nature and condition, is chiefly and principally in the persons, and in the sacramental signs it is none otherwise but sacramentally and in signification. And whether this be matter of trueth or a thing devised only for a shift, let the reader judge.
And as for the holines of bread, I say now as I said before,1 that neither bread, wine nor water, haue any capacity of holinesse, but holines is onely in the receauers, and by the bread, water and wine is sacramentally signified. And therefore the marueilous alteration to an hyer estate, nature and condition, is chiefly and principally in the persons, and in the sacramentall signes it is none otherwise but sacramentally and in significatiō. And whether this be matter of trueth or a thing deuised onely for a shift, let the reader iudge.
- 1Holy bread.
And where you say in your further answer here to S. Ambrose, that,1 the visible matter of the bread outwardly remaineth, it seemeth you have not well marked the words of S. Ambrose, who saith that the words of Christ changeth species elementorum. And then if species (as you have said before in many places) signify the visible matter, then the visible matter remaineth not (as you say) but is changed as S. Ambrose saith. And so ⟨p. 346⟩