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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 as for the flying of Christ up into heaven, so soon as the bread is chewed in the mouth, or changed in the stomach, I say not that the church teacheth so, but that Papists say so, which for as much as you say, that it liketh me to report this most untruly, read what the gloss saith upon the chapter,1 Tribus gradibus, de Consecrat. dist, a: & there you shall find these words. Certum est, quod species quam citó dentibus teruntur, tam citó in Coelum rapitur corpus Christi. And if this gloss be false and erroneous, why was it published and set out by the authority of the Papists? Why hath it been written and printed in so many countries, and so many years without reproof, of any fault found therein by any man?
And as for the flying of Christ vp into heauen, so soone as the bread is chawed in the mouth, or changed in the stomack, I say not that the church teacheth so, but that Papistes say so, whith for as much as you say, that it liketh me to reporte this most vntruely, reade what the glose saith vpō the chapter,1 Tribus gradibus, de Consecrat. dist, a: & there you shall finde these words. Certum est, quod species quam citó dentibus teruntur, tam citó in Coelum rapitur corpus Christi. And if this glose be false and erroneous, why was it published and set out by the authority of the Papistes? Why hath it been writtē and printed in so many countreis, and so many yeares without reprofe, of any fault found therein by any man?
- 1De consecrat. d. 2. Tribus gradibus
But here may wise men learn to beware of your doctrine. For you reprove those Papists which have written of this matter, 4. or 5. hundred years past, and do invent a new devise of your own. And therefore wise men, when they see you teach one doctrine, and the Papists that were before your time, teach another, they will believe none of you all.