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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 body of Christ, is by Gods omnipotency, who so worketh in his word, made present unto us at such time, as the church pray, it may please him so to do, which prayer is ordered to be made in the book of common prayer now set forth.1 Wherein we require of §2God, the creatures of bread and wine to be sanctified, and to be to us the body and blood of Christ, which they can not be, unless God worketh it, and make them so to be: In which §1mystery it was never taught, as this author willingly misreporteth,2 that Christs most §3precious body is made of the matter of bread, but in that order, exhibited and made preset unto us, by conversion of the substance of bread into his precious body, not a new body made of a new matter of bread and wine, but a new presence of the body, that is never old made present there, where the substance of bread and wine was before. So as this comparison of difference is mere wrangling and so evident, as it needeth no further answer, but a note: Lo how they be not ashamed to trifle in so great a matter, and without cause by wrong terms, to bring the truth in slander (if it were possible.) May not this be accounted, §4as a part of Gods punishment, for men of knowledge to write to the people such matter seriously, as were not tolerable to be by a scoffer devised in a play, to supply when his fellow had forgotten his part.
The body of Christ, is by Gods omnipotency, who so worketh in his word, made present vnto vs at such tyme, as the church praye, it may please him so to doe, which prayer is ordred to be made in the booke of common prayer now set foorth.