A15061:145
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.
This former argument of M.R. hath begotten another like to it self,1 or rather more monstrous. Thus it standeth;2 They who may & ought to offer sacrifice, as did first Melch. & afterward Christ, are truly & properly sacerdotes: But priests of the new Testament may & ought to offer sacrifice in such sort: ergo they are truly & properly sacerdotes, priests. The Minor is the same with the conclusion of your other argument, as evidently false, as the word of god is clearly & undoubtedly true. For if your priests offer sacrifice, as Melchizedek and Christ did, then are they priests of Melch. order, & not priests only but kings. For so was he the figure, & so is Christ the truth. You cannot pull in sunder ⟨p. 76⟩these two offices, but if you will needs be priests, & that properly, according to this order of Melchis. then seeing that order of priesthood hath a kingdom inseparably annexed to it, it must necessarily follow, that you are also kings, and that properly, which were a very proper thing indeed, and greatly to be accounted of.3 If you divide these offices in sunder, it is blasphemy; making a Priest according to the order of Melchizedek, who is not also a king: If you take both jointly to your selves, then will every hedge Priest be a gentleman, a lord, a King. As this is most absurd, & monstrous, so is that also, that you should be priests according to Melchisedechs order. For then further ought you to be eternal, without beginning or ending of days, without father or mother, as Melchizedek is described unto us in the scriptures, and as Christ is in trueth, and only Christ. So taking upon you this priesthood of Melchizedek, you commit horrible sacrilege, and treason against the person of Christ our saviour, who will in time tread such vermin under his feet, that creeping on the earth do presumptuously challenge to themselves his special prerogatives and royalties.
This former argument of M.R. hath begotten another like to it selfe,1 or rather more monstrous. Thus it standeth;