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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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AS for your four marks & tokens (if you mark them well) you shall §1perceive most manifestly your ignorance and error, how they note and appoint (as it were with their fingers) your doctrine to be erroneous, as well of Transubstantiation, as of the real presence.
AS for your foure markes & tokens (if you marke them well) you shall §1perceaue most manifestly your ignoraūce and errour, how they note and appoint (as it were with their fingers) your doctrine to be erronious, as well of Transubstantiation, as of the reall presence.
1And to begin with your first mark, Irenee in deed proved the resurrection §2of our bodies unto eternal life, because our bodies be nourished with the everlasting food of Christs body. And therefore as that food is everlasting, so it being joined unto his eternal deity, giveth to our bodies everlasting life. And if the being of Christs body in any creature should give the same life, then it might peradventure be thought of some fools, that if it were in the bread, it should give life to the bread. But neither reason, learning nor faith beareth, that Christs body being only in bread, should give life unto a man. So that if it were an Article of our faith, to believe that Christ is present in the forms of bread and wine, it were an unprofitable Article, seeing that his being in the bread, should profit no man.