A09453:307
A Reformed Catholic
A reformed Catholic: or, A declaration showing how near we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundry points of religion: and wherein we must for ever depart from them with an advertisement to all favourers of the Roman religion, showing that the said religion is against the Catholic principles and grounds of the catechism.A reformed Catholike: or, A declaration shewing how neere we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundrie points of religion: and vvherein we must for euer depart from them with an advertisment to all fauourers of the Romane religion, shewing that the said religion is against the Catholike principles and grounds of the catechisme.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1598Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1598
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III. Our reasons.
Reason. I. Heb. 9. v. 15. and 26: and cap. 10. v. 10. The holy ghost saith, Christ offered himself but once. Therefore not often: and thus there can be no real or bodily offering of his body and blood in the sacrament of his supper: the text is plain. The Papists answer thus. The sacrifice of Christ (say they) is one for substance, yet in regard of the manner of offering it is either bloody or unbloody, and the holy ghost speaks only of the bloody sacrifice of Christ: which was indeed offered but once. Ans. But the author of this epistle takes it for granted, that the sacrifice of Christ is only one, and that ⟨p. 209⟩bloody sacrifice. For he saith, Heb. 9. v. 25. Christ did not offer himself often, as the high priests did. & v. 26. For them he must have often suffered since the foundation of the world: but now in the end he hath appeared once to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. and v. 22. WITHOUT SHEDDING OF BLOOD is NO remission of sin. By these words it is plain, that the scripture never knew the two fold manner of sacrificing of Christ. And every distinction in Divinity not founded in the written word, is but a forgery of mans brain. And if this distinction be good, how shall the reason of the Apostle stand▪ He did not offer himself but once, because he suffered but once.
Reason. I. Heb. 9. v. 15. and 26: and cap. 10. v. 10. The holy ghost saith, Christ offered himselfe but once. Therefore not often: and thus there can be no reall or bodily offering of his bodie and blood in the sacrament of his supper: the text is plaine. The Papists answer thus. The sacrifice of Christ (say they) is one for substāce, yet in regard of the manner of offering it is either bloodie or vnbloodie, and the holy ghost speakes onely of the bloodie sacrifice of Christ: which was indeede offered but once. Ans. But the author of this epistle takes it for graunted, that the sacrifice of Christ is onely one, and that