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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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But if the substance of the Sun be here corporally present with us upon earth,1 then I grant that Christs body is so likewise. So that he §2of us two that erreth in the one, let him be taken for a vain man, and to ⟨p. 93⟩err also in the other. Therefore I am content that the reader judge indifferently between you and me, in the corporal presence of the sun, and he that is found to err, and to be a fool therein, let him be judged to err also in the corporal presence of Christs body.
But if the substance of the Sonne be here corporally present with vs vpon earth,1 then I graunt that Christes body is so likewise. So that he §2of vs two that erreth in the one, let him be taken for a vaine man, and to ⟨p. 93⟩erre also in the other. Therfore I am content that the reader iudge indifferently betweene you and me, in the corporal presence of the sonne, and he that is found to erre, and to be a foose therin, let him be iudged to erre also in the corporall presence of Christes body.
- 1The presence of the Sonne.
But now master Bucer help this man at need:1 For he that hath ever hitherto cried out against you, now being at a pinch driven to his shifts crieth for help upon you. And although he was never your friend, yet extend your charity to help him in his necessity. But master Bucer saith not so much as you do: and yet if you both said that the beams of the sun, be of the same substance with the sun, who would believe either of you both? Is the light of the candle the substance of the candle? or the light of the fire the substance of the fire? Or is the beams of the sun any thing but the clear light of the sun? Now as you said even now of me, if you err so far from the true judgement of natural things, that all men may perceive your error, what marvel is it if you err in heavenly things?