An answer to a certain book, writtenAn answere to a certeine booke, written

Of Priesthood, and of the sacrifice continued after Christ.

Of Priesthod, and of the sacrifice continued after Christ.

Seeing you will needs be called & accounted Priests, & that in the proper sense,¹ and signification of this word, I require no pardon at your hands for terming you, as I did. For if Christ be the only Priest of the new Testament, and his sacrifice never to be repeated, as we are plainly taught by the word of God; what Priests can you be, but Baalites, and what sacrificers, but Antichristian? show your order, your Author, your institution: otherwise we must esteem and speak of you,² as such a generation deserveth. It is not lawful for any to take honour to him-self, but he that is called of God, as Aaron: If you can prove that God hath called you, it is meet you be received, & reverenced, as the ordinance of God in all functions deserveth: but this can you never do, and therefore both your name, & your profession is of all the godly to be detested, as a venomous ⟨p. 59⟩plant, never planted by the heavenly father.³ Two ways you have chosen, by which you will prove your selves lawful priests: principally, you say, by mine own words, secondarily by deduction out of the scriptures. Let us consider of both these arguments in order, and so it shall appear in the end, that your Priesthood was hatched of an ill egg.⁴

SEeing you will needes be called & accounted Priests, & that in the proper sense,¹ and signification of this word, I require no pardon at your hands for terming you, as I did. For if Christ be the onelie Priest of the new Testament, and his sacrifice neuer to be repeated, as we are plainlie taught by the word of God; what Priests can you be, but Baalites, and what sacrificers, but Antichristian? shewe your order, your Author, your institution: otherwise we must esteeme and speake of you,