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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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Yet still in these comparisons you grant, that part of the difference to be true, which I affirm, but you say that I report untruly of the Papists, impudently bearing them in hand, to say such abominable & beastly asseverations as you never heard. Whereby appeareth your impudent arrogancy in denial of that thing, which either you know the Papists do say, or you are in doubt whether they say, or saying having not read what it is that they say.1 For why do they reject the Master of the sentences in this point, that he said, a mouse or brute beast receiveth not the body of ⟨p. 67⟩Christ, although they seem to receive it? Wherein if you say (as the Master did) that the mouse receiveth not the body of Christ,2 look for no favour at the papists hands, but to be rejected as the Master was, unless they forbear you upon favour, and because that in other matters you have been so good a captain for them, they will pardon you this one fault. A•d so is this first §7part of the difference no untrue surmise of me, but a determination of the Papists, condemning who so ever would say the contrary. And this is a common proposition among the school divines, that the body of Christ remaineth so long as the form of the bread is remaining, where so ever it be, whereof your S. Thomas writeth thus:3 Quidam vero dixerunt, quod quā primum Sacramentum sumitur à mure vel cane, desinit ibi esse corpus Christi. Sed hoc deregat veritati huius Sacramenti. Substantia enim panis sumpta à peccatore, I am diu manet, dion per calorem naturalem est in digestione, igitur tam diu manet corpus Christi sub speciebus Sacramentalibus. And Perin in his book printed,