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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
Doctrine 11 › IV. Objections of Papists.Doctrine 11 › IV. Obiections of Papists.
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IV. Objections of Papists.
IV. Obiections of Papists.
I. Gen. 14. v. 18. When Abraham was coming from the slaughter of the Kings, Melchizedek met him, and brought forth bread and wine; and he was a priest of the most high God. Now this bread and wine (say they) he brought forth to offer for a sacrifice; because it is said he was a priest of the most high God: and they reason thus. Christ was a priest after the order of Melchizedek: therefore as Melchizedek offered bread and wine, so Christ under the forms of bread and wine offers himself in sacrifice unto God. Ans. Melchizedek was no type of Christ in regard of the act of sacrificing, but in regard of his person, and things pertaining thereto, which are all fully expounded, Hebr. 7. the sum whereof is this. I. Melchizedek was both king and priest: so was Christ. II. He was a prince of peace and righteousness: so was Christ. III. He had neither father nor mother: because the Scripture in setting down his history makes no mention either of beginning or ending ⟨p. 216⟩of his days: and so Christ had neither father nor mother: no father, as he was man; no mother, as he was God. IV. Melchizedek being greater then Abraham blessed him, and Christ by virtue of his priesthood blesseth, that is, justifieth and sanctifieth all those that be of the faith of Abraham. In these things only stands the resemblance and not in the offering of bread and wine. Again the end of bringing forth the bread and wine, was not to make a sacrifice, but to refresh Abraham and his servants, that came from the slaughter of the Kings. And he is called here a priest of the most high God, not in regard of any sacrifice; but in consideration of his blessing of Abraham, as the order of the words teacheth, And he was the priest of the most high God, and therefore he blessed him. Thirdly, though it were granted, that he brought forth bread and wine to offer in sacrifice, yet will it not follow, that in the sacrament Christ himself is to be offered unto God under the naked forms of bread and wine. Melchizedek's bread & wine were absurd types of no-bread and no-wine, or,