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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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And I never said, that Christ is utterly absent, but I ever affirmed,1 that he is truly and spiritually present, and truly and spiritually exhibited unto the godly receivers: but corporally is he neither in the receivers, nor in or under the forms of bread or wine, as you do teach, clearly with out the consent of master Bucer, who writeth no such thing.
And I neuer sayd, that Christ is vtterly absent, but I euer affirmed,1 that he is truly and spiritually present, and truly and spiritually exhibited vnto the godly receiuours: but corporally is he neither in the receiuors, nor in or vnder the fourmes of bread or wine, as you do teach, clearly with out the consent of master Bucer, who writeth no such thing.
- 1The true presence of Christ.The trew presense of Christ.
And where I allege of Saint Augustine, that the sacrament of Christs body is called Christs body, after a certain manner of speech, and you deny that saint Augustine meant of a certain manner of speech, but saith only, after a certain manner: Read the place of saint Augustin who will, and he shall find, that he speaketh of the manner of speech, and that of such a manner of speech, as calleth one thing by the name of an other, where it is not the very thing in deed. For of the manner of speech is all the process there, as appeareth by these his words: a day or two before good Friday, we use in common speech to say: to morrow, or this day two days, Christ suffered. &c. Likewise upon Easter day we say: this day Christ rose. And why do no men reprove us as liars, when we speak in this sort? And we call those days so by a similitude. &c. And so it is called that day which is not that day in deed. And sacraments commonly have the name of the things whereof they be sacraments. Therefore as after a certain manner the sacrament of Christs body, is Christs body: so likewise the sacrament of faith is faith. And likewise saith Saint Paul, that in baptism we be buried, he saith not, that we signify burial, but he saith plainly, that we be buried: So that the