A19563:1981
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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Men may here see, what feigned fables be sought out, to defend your errors and ignorance, which is how so manifest, that it appeareth you never read, or else have forgotten, the very principles, and definitions ⟨p. 358⟩of Philosophy. Of which this is one, that nutrition is a conversion of substance into substance, that is to say, of the meat into the substance of the thing that is fed. An other is thus Ex eisdem sunt & nutriuntur omnia. All thinges be nourished of things like themselves. And so I grant you, that a man made of savours, and a man made of the virtue of gold and precious stones, may be nourished by the same, because he is made of the same. And yet it may be, that some certain savour or the virtue of some precious stone, may increase or continue some humour, whereof a man may be nourished, as we read of some men or certain people that have lived no small time by the savour of apples.
MEn may here see, what fayned fables be sought out, to defend your errors and ignorance, which is how so manifest, that it appeareth you neuer read, or els haue forgotten, the very principles, and diffinitions ⟨p. 358⟩of Philosophy. Of which this is one, that nutrition is a conuertion of substance into substance, that is to say, of the meate into the substance of the thing that is fedde. An other is thus Ex eisdem sunt & nutriuntur omnia. All thinges be nourished of thinges like themselues. And so I graunt you, that a man made of sauoures, and a man made of the vertue of gold and precious stones, may be nourished by the same, bicause he is made of the same. And yet it may be, that some certayne sauor or the vertue of some precious stone, may increase or continue some humor, wherof a man may be nourished, as we read of some men or certayne people that haue liued no small time by the sauonr of apples.