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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 here I would wish you to mark very well one true sentence which you have uttered by the way, which is: That Christ declared, that eating of him signifieth believing,1 and start not from it an other time. And mark the same I pray thee (gentle Reader.) For this one sentence assoyleth almost all the arguments that be brought by this Lawyer in his whole book against the truth.
And here I would wishe you to marke very wel one true sentence which you haue vttered by the way, which is: That Christ declared, that eating of him signifieth beleeuing,1 and start not from it an other time. And marke the same I pray thee (gentle Reader.) For this one sentence assoyleth almost all the argumentes that be brought by this Lawyer in his wholl booke against the truth.
- 1Eating signifieth believing.Eating signifieth beleeuing.
And yet to the said true saying, you have joined an other untruth, & have yoked them both together in one sentence.3 For when Christ had taught of the eating of him, being the bread descended from heaven there was no murmuring thereat, (say you.) Which your saying I can not but wonder at, to see you so far deceived in a matter so plain and manifest.2 And if I had spoken such an evident and manifest untruth, I doubt not but it should have been spoken of to Rome gates. For the text saith there plainly, Murmur abant Judaei de illo, qoud dixisset: Ego sum panis vinus, qui de coelo descendi: 3