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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 effect therefore of S. Augustins words plainly to be expressed, was this, that the prophets in the old testament Promised a saviour to come, & redeem the world, (which the sacraments of that time testified until his coming): but now he is already come, and hath by his death performed that was promised, which our sacraments testify unto us, as S. Augustine declareth more plainly in his book De fide ad Petrum, the xix. chapter. So that S. Augustine speaketh of the giving of Christ to death,1 (which the sacraments of the old testament, testified to come, and ours testify to be done) and not of the giving of him in the sacraments.
The effect therfore of S. Augustins words plainly to be expressed, was this, that the prophets in the old testament Promised a sauiour to come, & redeem the world, (which the sacraments of that tyme testified vntill hys comming): but now he is already come, and hath by his death performed that was promised, which our sacramentes testifie vnto vs, as S. Augustine declareth more playnely in his booke De fide ad Petrum, the xix. chapter. So that S. Augustine speaketh of the geuing of Christ to death,1 (which the sacraments of the old testament, testified to come, and ours testify to be done) and not of the geuing of him in the sacraments.
- 1August. de fide ad Pet. cap. 19.
And forasmuch as S. Augustine spake generally of all the sacraments, therefore if you will by his words prove, that Christ is corporally in the sacrament of the holy communion, you may aswell prove, that he is corporally in baptism. For saint Augustine speaketh no more of the one then of the other. But where saint Augustin speaketh generally of all the sacraments, you restrain the matter particularly to the sacrament of the Lords supper only, that the ignorant reader should think, that saint Augustine spake of the corporal presence of Christ in the sacraments, and that only in the sacraments of bread and wine, where as saint Augustine himself speaketh only of our salvation by Christ, and of the sacraments in general.