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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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The second principal thing,1 wherein the Papists vary from the truth of gods word, is this: They say, that the very natural flesh and blood of Christ, which suffered for us upon the cross, & sitteth at the right hand of father in heaven, is also really, substantially, corporally, & naturally, in or under the accidents of the sacramental bread & wine, which they call the forms of bread and wine. And yet here they vary not a little among them selves, for some say, that the very natural body of Christ is there, but not naturally, nor sensibly. And other say, that it is there naturally and sensibly, and of the same bigness and fashion that it is in heaven, and as the same was borne of the blessed virgin Mary, and that is there broken and torn in pieces with our teeth. And this appeareth partly by the school authors, & partly by the confession of Berengarius,2 which Nicholas the second constrained him to make, which was this: That of the Sacraments of the Lords table the said Berengarius should promise to hold that faith, which the said Pope Nicholas & his counsel held, which was, that not only the sacraments of bread & wine, but also the very flesh and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, are sensibly handled of the priest in the altar, broken and torn with the teeth of the faithful people. But the true catholic faith, grounded upon Gods most infallible word, teacheth us, that our saviour Christ (as concerning his mans nature and bodily presence) is gone up unto heaven,3 and sitteth at the right hand of his father, and there shall he tarry until the worlds end, at what time he shall come again to judge both the quick and the dead, as he saith him self in many Scriptures. I forsake the world (saith he) and go to my Father.4 And in another place he saith: You shall ever have poor men among you, but me shall not you ever have.5 And again he saith: Many hereafter shall come and say, look here is Christ, or look there he is, but believe them not. And S. Peter saith in the Acts, that heaven must receive Christ,6