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 ...

Winchester.

Here is a pretty sleight in this comparison, where both partes of the comparison may be vnderstanded on both sides, and therfore here is by the Author in this comparison no [ 1] issue ioyned. For the worthy receauing of Christes body and bloud in the Sacrament, is both with mouth and harte: both in facte and faith. After which sorte, Saynte Peter in the laste Supper, receaued Christes body, where as in the same, Iudas receaued [ 4] it with mouth, and in facte onely, wherof S. Augustine speaketh in this wise. Non dicuns [ 3]

ista, nisi qui de mensa Domini vitam sumu sumunt,* 1.1 sicut Tetrus, non iudicium, sicut Indas, & tamē ip∣sa vtri{que} fuit vina, sed non vtri{que} valuit ad vnum, quia ipsi non erant vnum. Which wordes be thus much to say:

That they say not so (as was before intreated) but such as receaue life of our Lordes table (as Peter did) not iudgement, (as Iudas) and yet the table was all one to them both, but it was not to all one effect in them both, bycause they were not one.

Here S. Augustine noteth the difference in the receauer, not in the Sacrament re∣ceaued, which being receaued with the mouth only, and Christ entring, in mysterie onely doth not sanctifie vs, but is the stone of stumbling, and our iudgement and condemnati∣on, but if he be receaued with mouth and body, with hart and fayth, to such he bringeth lyfe and nourishment. Wherfore in this comparison, the author hath made no difference, [ 1] but with diuers tearmes, the Catholicke teaching is deuided into two membres with a (But) fashioned neuertheles in another phrase of spéech then the church hath vsed, which is so common in this Author, that I will not hereafter note it any more for a faulte. But let vs goe further.

Notes

• * 1.1

  August contra lit. Peti. lib. 2. cap. 47.