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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 where a sacramental mutation is to you a new term, it declareth §8nothing else but your ignorance in the matter. And although you seem to be ignorant in other authors, yet if you had expended diligently but one chapter of S. Ambrose, you should have found three examples of this sacramental mutation, wherein the substances remain entire and whole: one is in the sacrament of Christs incarnation, an other is in a person that is baptised, and the third in the water of baptism, which three examples I alleged in my book, but you thought it better slightly to pass them over, then to trouble your brain with answering to them.
And wher a sacramentall mutatiō is to you a new tearme, it declareth §8nothing els but your ignorance in the matter. And although you seeme to be ignorant in other authors, yet if you had expended diligently but one chapter of S. Ambrose, you should haue found three examples of this sacramentall mutation, wherin the substances remayne entier and whole: one is in the sacrament of Christes incarnation, an other is in a person that is baptised, and the third in the water of baptisme, which three examples I alleadged in my booke, but you thought it better slightly to passe them ouer, then to trouble your brayne with answering to them.
1And where you say that calling bread the body of Christ, is making it §9in deed the body of Christ, as Christ was called Jesus, because he is the saviour of all men in deed here it appeareth, that you consider not the nature of a sacrament. For when sacraments be named or called by the names of the things which they signify, yet they be not the same things indeed, but be so called (as S. Augustine saith) because they have some similitude or likeness to the things which they be called. But Christ was called Jesus our Saviour, as the very true Saviour in deed, not as a sacrament or figure of salvation, as the bread is the sacrament of Christs flesh, and wine the sacrament of his blood, by which names they be called, and yet be not the very things in deed. Thus have I answered to the chief authors, which you allege for Transubstantiation, making