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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 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.
And to this purpose it is both pleasaunt, comfortable, and profitable to read Theodoretus in his Dialogs,1 where he disputeth and sheweth at length, how the names of things be chaunged in scripture, and yet thinges remayne still. And for example he proueth that the flesh of Christ is in the scripture sometime called a vayle or coueryng, sometime a cloth, sometyme a vestment, and sometyme a stole: & the bloud of the grape is called Christes bloud, and the names of bread and wine, and of his flesh and bloud, Christ doth so chaunge, that sometyme he calleth his body, corne or bread, and sometime contrary, he calleth bread his body. And likewise his bloud sometime he calleth wine, and sometime contrary he calleth wine his bloud.
- 1Theodoretus in dialogis.
For the more plain understanding whereof, it shall not be amiss to recite his own sayings in his foresaid dialogues, touching this matter of the holy sacrament of Christs flesh and blood. The speakers in these dialogues be Orthodoxus, the right believer, and Eranistes his companion, but not understanding the right faith.