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 ...
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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 ...
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Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.
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At London :: Printed by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate beneath S. Martines,
Anno. 1580. Cum gratia & priuilegio, Regiæ Maiestatis.
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Gardiner, Stephen, 1483?-1555. -- Explication and assertion of the true catholique fayth, touchyng the moost blessed sacrament of the aulter -- Controversial literature.
Smith, Richard, 1500-1563. -- Confutation of a certen booke, called a defence of the true, and catholike doctrine of the sacrament, &c. sette fourth of late in the name of Thomas Archebysshoppe of Canterburye -- Controversial literature.
Lord's Supper -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19563.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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Winchester.
[ 1] Where the Authour cityng S. Paul Englisheth him thus, that Christes Priesthode can not passe from him to an other. These wordes thus framed be not the simple and sincere expression of the truth of the text. Whiche sayth, that Christ hath a perpetuall Priesthode, and the Gréeke hath a word (〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) which the Gréek Schooles expresse and expounde by the word (〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) signifiyng the Priesthode of Christ endeth not in him to go to an other by succession as in the tribe of Leui, wher was amōg mortal men succession in the office of Priesthode, but Christ liueth euer, and therfore is a perpetu∣all euerlastyng Priest, by whose authoritie Priesthode is now in this visible Church as S. Paule ordered to Timothe and Tite, and other places also confirme, which Priestes visible Ministers to our inuisible Priest offer the dayly Sacrifice in Christes Churche,* 1.1 that is to say, with the very presence by Gods omnipotencie wrought of the most preci∣ous
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body and bloud of our Sauiour Christ, shewyng forth Christes death, and celebra∣tyng the memory of his Supper and death accordyng to Christes institution, so with dayly oblation and sacrifice of the selfe same Sacrifice, to kindle in vs a thankeful remē∣braunce [ 2] of all Christes benefites vnto vs.
Notes
* 1.1
Priestes in the Mas offer that is, shewed forth Christes death.