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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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Here it pleaseth you to pass over all the rest of my sayings, and to answer only to the difference between the Papists and the true Catholic faith. Where,1 in the first ye find fault that I have untruly reported the Papistical faith (which you call the faith of the Church) which teacheth not (say you) that Christ is in the bread and wine, but under the forms of bread and wine. But to answer you, I say, that the Papists do teach, that Christ is in the visible signs, and whether they list to call them bread and wine, or the forms of bread and wine, all is one to me, for the truth is, that he is neither corporally in the bread and wine, nor in or under the forms & figures of them, but is corporally in heaven, and spiritually in his lively ⟨p. 50⟩members which be his temples where he inhabiteth. And what untrue report is this,2 when I speak of bread and wine to the Papists, to speak of them in the fame sense that the Papists mean, taking bread and wine for the forms and accidences of bread and wine.
Here it pleaseth you to passe ouer all the rest of my sayinges, and to aunswere onely to the difference betweene the Papists and the true Catholicke faith. Where,1 in the first ye finde fault that I haue vntruely reported the Papisticall faith (which you call the faith of the Church) which teacheth not (say you) that Christ is in the bread and wine, but vnder the formes of bread and wine. But to aunswere you, I say, that the Papists do teach, that Christ is in the visible signes, and whether they list to call them bread and wine, or the formes of bread and wine, all is one to me, for the truth is, that he is neither corporally in the bread and wine, nor in or vnder the formes & figures of them, but is corporally in heauen, and spiritually in his liuelye ⟨p. 50⟩members which be his tēples where he inhabiteth. And what vntrue reporte is this,2 when I speake of bread and wine to the Papistes, to speak of them in the fame sence that the Papistes meane, taking bread and wine for the formes and accidences of bread and wine.