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3. Is this Sacrifice of theirs a repetition of Christs sacrifice? then belike Christs Sacrifice was imperfect. For the Apostle evidently maketh ^othe reiteration of Offerings an Argument of imperfection. And if Christs Sacrifice then be (as this blasphemous wretch saith) repeated, it must needs be (by the Apostles Argument) defective and imperfect. But Christs Sacrifice was most absolutely perfect, consummate and all-sufficient. For ^pby one oblation of himself once offered hath he obtained eternal redemption, and for ever consecrated them that are sanctified. Christs Sacrifice therefore needs no reiteration. Nay, it is an impious wrong to it to say it is reiterated: and such as some of their own writers themselves either are ashamed of, or at least dare not a•ow. Peter Lombard the grand Master of the Sentences (as they term him) and ^qthe first Father of their School-Divinity; ^rmoveth this Question among others, Whither that which the Priest doth be properly termed an immolation or a Sacrifice: & whither Christ be daily sacrificed, or was once only sacrificed. Now to this Question, (saith he) we may briefly say, ^sthat that which is offered and consecrated by the Priest is called a Sacrifice and an oblation, because it is a memorial and representation of the true Sacrifice and the holy immolation made upon the Altar of the Cross. ^tFor once Christ died upon the Cross, and was there sacrificed in himself: but he is daily sacrificed in the Sacrament, because in the Sacrament is there a remembrance of that that was once done. Whereupon saith Augustine; ^uSure we are that Christ risen again from the dead ⟨p. 201⟩