A15061:154
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.
Herein therefore lieth the force of the Apostles argument, that the Priesthood of the new Testament belongeth only unto him, that is immortal: for otherwise he had not put any necessary difference between that and the other: whereof it doth invincibly, and necessarily ensue, that the only priest of the new Testament, is Jesus ⟨p. 86⟩Christ. This Chrysostom concludeth out of the Apostles words most plainly:1 As there were (sayeth he) many priests, because they were mortal so there is but one, because he is immortal. For can they answer for them selves, that though they die, yet Christ liveth, whose partners herein they reckon them selves to be? might not the Jewish priests likewise have said as much, seeing it cannot be denied, but their priesthood also was referred unto Christ? But as those Priests together with their Priesthood expired, when our saviour Christ, the true Priest and sacrifice, was exhibited, so their was no place left for other Priests, nor other sacrifice, all figures being in Christ most fully and perfectly accomplished. Yet as though Christ had been either a mortal priest like to Aaron, and his children, or his sacrifice had not at once satisfied the wrath of God, they substitute to Christ an infinite multitude of priests, far moe then were ever the Levitical priests, & take upon them blasphemously to offer again daily the same sacrifice that Christ once offered, which is impossible for any to offer, but only the Son of God himself. O that Christian people would consider ⟨p. 87⟩the horrible dungeon of iniquity, that lieth hid under the abominable sacrifice of the popish mass, then which the sun did never behold a thing more loathsome and detestable in the eyes of the God of heaven.
Herein therefore lieth the force of the Apostles argument, that the Priesthood of the new Testament belongeth onely vnto him, that is immortal: for otherwise he had not put anie necessarie difference betwene that and the other: whereof it doth inuinciblie, and necessarielie ensue, that the onelie priest of the new Testament, is Iesus ⟨p. 86⟩Christ. This Chrysostome concludeth out of the Apostles words moste plainly: