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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 see you not how much this saying of S. Augustin (that our resurrection shall not be carnally) maketh against your self? For if we shall not rise carnally, then is not Christ risen carnally nor is not in heaven carnally. And if he be not in heaven, how can he be in the Sacrament carnally, and eaten and drunken carnally with our mouths, as you say he is? And therefore as for the terms (carnally, and corporally) it is you that defame them by your gross taking of them, and not I, that speak of none other grossness, but of distinction of the natural and substantial parts, with out the which no mans body can be perfect.
But see you not how much this saying of S. Augustin (that our resurrection shall not be carnally) maketh agaynst your self? For if we shal not rise carnally, then is not Christ risen carnally nor is not in heauen carnally. And if he be not in heauen, how can he be in the Sacrament carnally, and eaten and drunken carnally wt our mouthes, as you say he is? And therfore as for the termes (carnally, and corporally) it is you that defame thē by your grosse taking of thē, and not I, that speak of none other grossenes, but of distinction of the naturall and substantiall partes, with out the which no mans body can be perfect.
And whereas here in this process you attribute unto Christ none other presence in heaven,1 but spiritual, without all manner of grossness or carnality,§2 so that all manner of being is spiritual, and none otherwise then he is in the sacrament, here I join an issue with you for a joint, and for the price of a faggot. I wondered all this while, that you were so ready to grant, that Christ is but after a spiritual manner in the sacrament: and now I wonder no more at that, seeing that you say, he is but after a spiritual manner in heaven. And by this means we may say, that he hath but a spiritual manhood, as you say that he hath in the sacrament but a spiritual body. And yet some carnal thing and grossness he hath in him, for he hath flesh and bones, which spirits lack, except that to all this impiety