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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 in this your answer to saint Augustine, you utter where you learned a good part of your divinity, that is, of Albertus Pighius,1 who is the father of this shift, and with this sleight eludeth Saint Augustin when he could no otherwise answer. As you do now shake of the same Saint Augustine, resembling as it were in that point the lively countenance of your father Pighius. Next in my book followeth Theodoret
But in this your answer to saynt Augustine, you vtter where you learned a good part of your diuinitie, that is, of Albertus Pighius,1 who is the father of this shift, and with this fleight eludeth Saynt Augustin when he could no otherwise answer. As you do now shake of the same Saynt Augustine, resembling as it were in that poynt the liuely countenaūce of your father Pighius. Next in my booke foloweth Theodoret
- 1Albertus Pighius.
And to this purpose it is both pleasant, comfortable, and profitable to read Theodoretus in his Dialogues,1 where he disputeth and showeth at length, how the names of things be changed in scripture, and yet things remain still. And for example he proveth that the flesh of Christ is in the scripture sometime called a veil or covering, sometime a cloth, sometime a vestment, and sometime a stole: & the blood of the grape is called Christs blood, and the names of bread and wine, and of his flesh and blood, Christ doth so change, that sometime he calleth his body, corn or bread, and sometime contrary, he calleth bread his body. And likewise his blood sometime he calleth wine, and sometime contrary he calleth wine his blood.