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Aphorisms of Christian religionAphorismes of Christian religion
Aphorisms of Christian religion: or, a very compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.Aphorismes of Christian religion: or, a verie compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.
London: printed by Richard Field and Robert Dexter, 1596
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XIII.
Lastly, they have this sentence out of the 9. chap. It is necessary that the a*similitudes of heavenly things, should be purified with such things: but the heavenly things themselves (are purified) with better *sacrifices then these. Ergo, with oblations of Masses: because he speaketh in the plural number, hosts. Therefore he speaketh not of the bloody sacrifice of Christ, which was but one. But I answer that the Apostle ⟨p. 181⟩there still keepeth his plural number,4 taking one number for another, because he continueth in the comparison of the legal sacrifices. And of these changes, we have many examples, as Ruth. 1. v. 10. and chapter. 2. v. 20. And that the Apostle there speaketh of that one sacrifice of Christ, may appear by the scope of that whole chap. for that nothing else is there intended, but to compare the Priesthood of Christ, with the Levitical Priesthood, and to show how far that excelleth this.
Lastly, they haue this sentence out of the 9. chap. It is necessarie that the a*