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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 reader by this one place among many other, may easily discern, how captious you be to reprehend what so ever I say, and to pervert every thing into a wrong sense: So that in respect of you, Smith is a very indifferent taker of my words,1 although in deed he far passeth the bonds of honesty.
The reader by this one place among many other, may easyly discerne, how captious you be to reprehend what so euer I say, and to peruert euery thing into a wrong sense: So that in respect of you, Smith is a very indifferent taker of my wordes,1 although in deed he farre passeth the bondes of honesty.
- 1D. Smith.
1But to come directly to the matter, if it be true that you say, that in the sacrament Christs body hath all the forms and quantities of a natural body, why say you then that his body is not there present after the manner of quantity? Declare what difference is between form and quantity, & the manner of quantity? And if Christs body in the Sacrament have the same quantity, that is to say, the same length, breadth, and thickness, and the same form, that is to say, the same due order, and proportion of the men bers and parts of his body, that he had when he was crucified, and hath now in heaven (as he hath by your saying here in this place) then I pray ⟨p. 73⟩you declare further, how the length, breadth, and thickness of a man, should be contained in quantity, within the compass of a piece of bread, no longer nor broader then one or two inches, nor much thicker then one leaf of paper. How an inch may be as long as an ell, and an ell as short as an inch. How length and roundness shall agree in one proportion: and a thick and thin thing be both of one thickness: which you must warrant to be brought to pass, if the form and quantity of Christs body be contained under the form and quantity of such bread and wine as we now use.