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.

How Christes body is in circumstance present, no man can define, but that it is truly present, and therfore really present, corporally also, and naturally,* 1.1 with relation to the truth of the body present, and not to the maner of presence which is spirituall, [ 1] exceeding our capacitye, and therefore therein without drawing away accidentes or [ 3] adding, wee beleeue simplye the trueth howesoeuer it liketh this author without the booke to terme it at his pleasure, and to speake of substaunce without accidentes and accidents without substance, which perplexity in wordes can not iest out the truth of [ 2] the catholike beleefe. And this is on the authors part nothing but iesting with a wrong [ 4] surmise and supposall, as though men had inuented and imagined that which by force and truth of the scripture all good men haue and must beleeue, that is to say, the true presence of the substance of the body and bloud of Christ in the Sacrament, according to the wordes of Christ: This is my body, which exclude the substance of bread, decla∣ring the substance of the body of Christ to be acknowledged and professed in the Sacra∣ment by the true fayth of a christen man. Compare with this what this author writeth in hys ninth difference in the 47. leafe of his boke, and so consider the truth of this re∣port, [ 5] and how this author agreeth with himselfe.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Really corpo∣rally, naturally.