A15061:135
An answer to a certain book, writtenAn answere to a certeine booke, written
An answer to a certain book, written by Master William Rainolds student of divinity in the English college at Rhemes, and entitled, A refutation of sundry reprehensions, cavils, etc. by William Whitaker ...An answere to a certeine booke, written by Maister William Rainolds student of diuinitie in the English colledge at Rhemes, and entituled, A refutation of sundrie reprehensions, cauils, etc. by William Whitaker ...
Printed at London : For Thomas Chard, 1585
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
You see therefore how little cause you had to charge my fellows and masters, 1as you name them, with stubbornness, who never denied, nor doubted, but that Melchizedek was a very priest, and executed the office of a priest, which chiefly consisteth in sacrifice and oblation, as the Apostle teacheth.2 Then your fellows & masters must needs be stubbornly set in maintenance of falsehood, if they either taught you thus to write, or will commend you for writing thus beyond all compass of modesty and trueth. But now, as though Melchisedechs sacrifice could have been no other, save that which you dream of, you gather of my acknowledging him to have offered sacrifice, that therefore he did it in bread and wine: which is an absurd, and senseless kind of gathering, meet for such a petty proctor of the Popes sacrifice, as Master Rainolds is. ⟨p. 64⟩The scriptures testify that Melchizedek was a priest, and this both I, and all my fellows and masters ever confessed. That the sacrifice which Melchizedek offered, was bread & wine, the scriptures no where give us to understand, & therefore we believe it not, & you can never prove it. You allege the testimony of Moses thus: Melchizedek rex Salem, 3proferens panem & vinum (erat enim sacerdos Dei altissimi) benedixit ei. Melchizedek king of Salem, bringing forth bread & wine (for he was a Priest of the most high god) blessed him, that is, Abraham, you must have a divine power of working miracles before you can prove hereof that Melchizedek offered bread and wine in sacrifice,4 seeing your own translation saith no more, but that he brought forth bread and wine: and that was, as I showed before, for an other purpose, then to offer sacrifice: unless with the same mouth, wherewith you said even now, that we deny Melchizedek to have made sacrifice, you will also further say, that to bring forth bread and wine is to offer sacrifice: whereas no man seeth not, that this may be done many ways, and for many other uses, then for this of sacrifice. Wherefore your reason, Melchizedek brought forth bread and wine, is not of ⟨p. 65⟩