The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wiseThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise

Thomas. Of what Sacrifice then doth Saint Augustine speak off?

Thomas. Of what Sacrifice then doth Sainct Augustine speake off?

Theophilus. Thou oughtest to understand ¹that there be two sorts of Sacrifices, which do comprehend all y• other. The first is y• sacrifice of reconciliation & redemption, for to deliver the sinners from the ire and wrath of God: But this appertaineth but to Jesus Christ alone, of whom y• Levitical sacrifices were but a shadow ²and figure. The other is y• sacrifice of praise & thanks giving, by which we may comprehend all y• works of the faithful, by which they do praise God, and do travail to ³be joined unto him. As Saint Augustine doth expound it. Now forasmuch as the sacrament of the holy supper of our Lord, is one of the principal things that the church ⁴hath, for to glorify God, rightly it was called by the ancients, sacrifice, as not long ago hath been touched: not by reason that Jesus Christ is offered unto God by us: But because that he offereth himself unto us, and that through faith we receive it, and render unto him it, ankes for the great benefit that he hath done for us, giving himself to the death for us: and we confess and protest, that we do not take nor hold any other for a saviour then he only, nor we accept any mans sacrifice but his. For that cause hath the supper in like manner been called Eucharistia by the Greeks: The which word signifieth giving of