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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 yet the controversy here in this matter, is not what may be, but what is, God can do many things, which he neither doth nor will do. And to us his will (in things that appear not to our senses) is not known but by his word: Christs body may be aswell in the bread and wine, as in in the door and stone, and yet it may be also in the door and stone, and not in the bread and wine.
And yet the controuersy here in this matter, is not what may bee, but what is, God can do many thinges, which he neither doth nor will doe. And to vs his will (in thinges that appear not to our sences) is not known but by his word: Christes body may be aswell in the bread and wine, as in in the dore and stone, and yet it may be also in the dore and stone, and not in the bread and wine.
But if we will stretch out our faith no further than Gods word doth lead us, neither is Christs body corporally present in one proper place with the ⟨p. 404⟩bread and wine, nor was also with the stone or door. For the Scripture saith in no place,1 that the body of Christ was in the door, or in the stone that covered the Sepulchre, but it saith plainly, that an Angel came down from heaven, and removed away the stone from the Sepulchre, & the women that came to see the Sepulchre,2 found the stone removed away. And although the Gospel say, that Christ came into the house when the door was shut, yet it saith not that Christs body was within the door, so that the door and it occupied both but one place.
But if we will stretch out our faith no further thē Gods word doth lead vs, neither is Christs body corporally present in one proper place with the ⟨p. 404⟩bread and wine, nor was also with the stone or doore. For the Scripture sayth in no place,