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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 the author would avoid all the testimony of the fathers by pretence it should be but a manner of speech, the Canon of the Council of Nice before rehearsed and the words of it, where mysteries be spoken of in proper terms for doctrine, avoideth all that shift, and it hath no absurdity to confess that Christ in his supper did institute for a remembrance of the only sacrifice the presence of the same most precious substance §1to be (as the Canon of the Council in proper teacheth) sacrificed by the Priests,1 to be the pure sacrifice of the Church there offered for the effect of increase of life in us, as it was offered on the Cross to achieve life unto us. And S. Cyril who for his doctrine was ⟨p. 391⟩§2in great authority with the council Ephesine, writeth the very body and blood of christ §3to be the lively and unbloody Sacrifice of the church, as like wise in the old church other §4commonly termed the same and among other Chrysostom, whom the author would now have seemed to use it but for a manner of speech, which in deed Chrysostom doth not, but doth truly open the understanding of that is done in the church, wherein by this sacrifice done after the order of Melchizedek, Christs death is not iterate but a memory daily renewed of that death, so as Christs offering on the Cross once done and consummate to finish all sacrifices after the order of Aaron, is now only remembered according to Christs institution, but in such wise as the same body is offered daily on the alter, that was once offered on the alter of the Cross, but the same manner of offering is not daily, that was on the altar of the Cross, for the daily offering is without bloodshed, and is termed §3so to signify that bloudshedding once done to be sufficient. And as Chrysostom openeth it by declaration of what manner our sacrifice is, that is to say, this daily offering to be a remembrance of the other manner of sacrifice once done, and therefore saith rather we make a remembrance of it.