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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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He saith, every yea, containeth a nay in it naturally, so as who soever saith, This is bread, saith it is no wine. For in the rule of common reason the grant of one substance is the denial of an other: And therefore reason hath these conclusions throughly, what soever is bread, is no wine, what soever is wine, is no milk. &c. So Christ saying, This is my body, saith it no bread, pag. 256. lin. 38. & pag. 265. lin. 5.
He sayth, euery yea, conteineth a nay in it naturally, so as who soeuer sayth, This is bread, sayth it is no wine. For in the rule of common reason the graunt of one substaunce is the deniall of an other: And therfore reason hath these conclusions throughly, what soeuer is bread, is no wyne, what soeuer is wine, is no milke. &c. So Christ saying, This is my body, sayth it no bread, pag. 256. lin. 38. & pag. 265. lin. 5.
Smith saith, a boy which hath only learned the Sophistry, will not dispute so fondly. fol. 77.
Smith sayth, a boye which hath onely learned the Sophistry, will not dispute so fondly. fol. 77.
Other say, that the Mass is a sacrifice satisfactory by devotion of the Priest, and not by the thing that is offered.
Other say, that the Masse is a sacrifice satisfactory by deuotion of the Priest, and not by the thyng that is offered.