An exhortation to the carrying of Christs cross with a true and brief confutation…An exhortacion to the carienge of Chrystes crosse wyth a true and brefe confutacion…

Although in words they say otherwise, as anon we shall ⟨p. 88⟩see, if hereunto I show you the mean, whereby to apply this sacrifice, which I will do very briefly.

Although in wordes they saye otherwyse, as anone we shall ⟨p. 88⟩see, if herevnto I shewe you the meane, whereby to applye thys sacrifice, whyche I wil do verye brefely.

For in the. 17. of S. John our saviour doth very plainly show this in these words: for their sakes, sayeth he, I sanctify my self, that they also might be sanctified through the trueth. I pray not for them alone, but for those also, which shall believe on me through their preaching. Here our saviour applieth his sacrifice, in teaching and praying for them.

For in the. 17. of S. John our sauiour doth very playnly shew thys in these wordes: for theyr sakes, sayeth he, I sanctyfye my selfe, that they also myghte bee sanctyfyed through the trueth. I praye not for them alone, but for those also, whych shal beleue on me throughe theyr preaching. Here our sauiour applyeth hys sacrifice, in teachynge and prayeng for them.

And as he teacheth them, as ministers, to do the like, that is, to preach and pray for the application of his sacrifice to y• church: so doeth he teach them and all the church, to apply it unto themselves by believing it ⟨p. 89⟩and by faith. The which thing the Apostle S. Paul in many places, but most plainly in the second to the Corinthians the fifth chapter in the later end doth teach. Read it, and see. So that now as ye have Christs one only sacrifice, which he himself on the cross offered once, as sufficient for all that do believe, and never more to be reiterated: so have you, that for the applying of it to his church, the ministers should preach and pray, that their preaching might be effectual in Christ.