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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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How Christs body is in circumstance present, no man can define, but that it is truly present, and therefore really present, corporally also, and naturally,1 with relation to the truth of the body present, and not to the manner of presence which is spiritual, §1exceeding our capacity, and therefore therein without drawing away accidents or §3adding, we believe simply the trueth howsoever it liketh this author without the book to term it at his pleasure, and to speak of substance without accidents and accidents without substance, which perplexity in words can not jest out the truth of §2the catholic belief. And this is on the authors part nothing but jesting with a wrong §4surmise and supposal, as though men had invented and imagined that which by force and truth of the scripture all good men have and must believe, that is to say, the true presence of the substance of the body and blood of Christ in the Sacrament, according to the words of Christ: This is my body, which exclude the substance of bread, declaring the substance of the body of Christ to be acknowledged and professed in the Sacrament by the true faith of a christen man. Compare with this what this author writeth in his ninth difference in the 47. leaf of his book, and so consider the truth of this report, §5and how this author agreeth with himself.
How Christes body is in circumstance present, no man can define, but that it is truly present, and therfore really present, corporally also, and naturally,