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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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I know not to what purpose you have written all this fond matter, except it be, that you would the world should know how ignorant you be in §1philosophy, which have not learned so much, as to know the diversity between the vi. kinds of mornings, generation, corruption, augmentation, diminution, alteration, and moving from place to place. Whereof the iiii. last be from accidents to accidents, and the two first from substance to substance. So that all mutation is not in accidents, and the corruption of accidents to be the generation of new accidents, as you unlearnedly imagine, both of that, and of materia prima, which never was no such thing in deed, but by imagination.
I know not to what purpose you haue written all this fond matter, except it be, that you would the world should know how ignorant you be in §1philosophy, which haue not learned so much, as to know the diuersity betwene the vi. kindes of mornings, generation, corruption, augmentation, diminution, alteration, and mouing from place to place. Wherof the iiii. last be from accidents to accidents, and the two first from substance to substance. So that all mutation is not in accidents, and the corruption of accidents to be the generation of new accidents, as you vnlearnedly imagine, both of that, and of materia prima, which neuer was no such thing in deede, but by imagination.
But because you bear me in hand, that I bear the papists wrong in hand, that they affirm worms to be engendered of accidents, I shall §2rehearse their own words, that the readers may know your ignorance herein, or else how loud a lye you make willingly. Ex speciebus sacramentalibus (say they) generantur vermes, siputre fiant. Of the sacramental forms, if they be rotten, be gendered worms. But it is no point of true meaning men, now to deny that ever they said any such things, as they have taught in their schools these four or five hundred years, as their own books do plainly testify. And be these Papists to be credited, which have taught untruly so many years, and now when they be pressed with all, go clean from it, and say they never said so, but he wrong borne in hand.