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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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But peradventure M. Smith will ask me this question. How could Christ come into the house, the door being shut, except he came through the door, & that his body must be in the door? To your wise question M. Smith I will answer by an other question: Could not Christ come aswell into the house when the door was shut, as the Apostles could go out of prison, the door being shut?1 Could not God work this thing, except the Apostles must go through the door, & occupy the same place that the door did? Or could not Christ do so much for his own self, as he did for his Apostles?
But peraduenture M. Smith will aske me this question. How could Christ come into the house, the doore being shut, except he came through the doore, & that his body must be in ye doore? To your wise questiō M. Smith I will aunswere by an other question: Could not Christ come aswell into the house whē the doore was shut, as ye Apostles could go out of prison, the doore beyng shut?1 Could not God worke this thyng, except the Apostles must go through the doore, & occuyy the same place that the doore did? Or could not Christ do so much for his own selfe, as he did for his Apostles?
- 1Acts. 5.Actes. 5.
But M. Smith is so blind in his own phantasies, that he seeth not how much his own examples make against him self. For if it be like in the Sacrament, as it was in the stone and door, and Christs body was in one proper place, with the body and substance of the stone and door, then must Christs body in the Sacrament be in one proper place, with the body and substance of bread and wine. And so he must then confess, that there is no Transubstantiation.