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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 now I am glad that here your self have found out a warrant for the apparel of bread and wine,1 that they shall not go altogether naked, & be nude and bare tokens, but have promises of effectual signification, which now you have spied out both in the words of Christ, and S. Paul.
And now I am glad that here your selfe haue found out a warrante for the apparrell of bread and wine,1 that they shall not goe altogether naked, & be nude and bare tokens, but haue promyses of effectuall significatiō, which now you haue spyed out both in the wordes of Christ, and S. Paule.
- 1A warrant for apparel.A warrant for apparrell.
Now for the ambiguity of Christs speeches, it is not always true,1 that such speeches of Christ as might have ambiguity, the Evangelists either plainly or by circumstances open them. For Christ speaking so many things in parables, similes, allegories, metaphors, and other tropes and figures, although sometime Christ himself, and sometime the Evangelists open the meaning, yet for the most part the meaning is left to the judgement of the hearers, without any declaration. As when Christ said:2 gird your loins, and take light candles in your hands. And when he said: No man that setteth his hand to the plough,3 and looketh behind him, is meet for the kingdom of God. And when he said: Except the grain of wheat falling upon the ground, dye, it remaineth sole. And as S. Matthew sayeth: