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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 if we can not tell how Christ is present,1 why do you then say, that he is substantially present, corporally present, naturally and carnally present?
And if we can not tel how Christ is present,1 why do you then say, that he is substantially present, corporally present, naturally and carnally present?
- 1The manner of presence.The maner of presence.
And how sure be you that Christ is in substance present, because he is truly present: Are you assured that this your doctrine agreeth with Gods ⟨p. 60⟩word? Doth not Gods word teach a true presence of Christ in spirit, where he is not present in his corporal substance? As when he saith:1 Where two or three be gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. And also when he saith: I shall be with you till the end of the world.2 Was it not a true presence that Christ in these places promised? And yet can you not of this true presence gather such a corporal presence of the substance of Christs manhood, as you unlearnedly, contrary to the scriptures• go about to prove in the Sacrament. For when Christ said, This is my body, it was bread which is called his body in a figurative speech, as all old authors teach, and as I have proved in my third book the 8 and 11 chap. And the §11