Animadversions on a treatise entitled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion,…Animadversions on a treatise intituled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion,…

For so our Lord commanded, when he said to his Apostles, Hoc facite, This do ye, which ye have seen me to do, and in that manner you see me do it; exercising before your eye my Priestly Function according to the order of Melchizedek, with which power I do also invest you, and appoint you to do the like, even ⟨p. 371⟩unto the Consummation of the world, in commemoration of my Death and Passion, exhibiting and showing forth your Lords Death until he come. This Protestants do not, and we are mad-angry, that the Papist does what his Redeemer enjoined him. I fear, his Readers, which shall consider this odd medley, will begin to think, that they are not only Protestants who use to be mad-angry. This kind of Writing argues, I will not say, both madness and anger, but one of them it doth seem plainly to do. For, setting aside a far-fetched false notion or two about Melchizedek, and the Doctrine of the Sacrament here expressed, is that which the Pope with Fire and Sword hath laboured to exterminate out of the world, burning hundreds (I think) in England for believing, that our Lord, instituting his blessed Supper, commanded his Apostles to do the same that he then did, and in the same manner, even to the Consummation of the world, in the commemoration of his Death, and Passion, exhibiting and showing forth their Lord's death until he come; a man would suppose, that he had taken these words out ⟨p. 372⟩of the Liturgy of the Church of England; for therein are they expressly found; and why then have not Protestants that which he speaks of. Yea, but Christ did this in the exercise of his Priestly Function, and with the same power of Priesthood, according to the order of Melchizedek, invested his Apostles. Both these may be granted, and the Protestants Doctrine, and Faith, concerning this Sacrament not at all impeached; but the truth is, they are both false. The Lord Christ exercised indeed his Priestly Function, when on the Cross he offered himself to God through the Eternal Spirit a Sacrifice for the sins of the world; but it was by virtue of his Kingly and Prophetical power that he instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood, and taught his Disciples the use of it, commanding its Observation in all his Churches to the end of the world.

For so our Lord commanded, when he said to his Apostles, Hoc facite, This do ye, which ye have seen me to do, and in that manner you see me do it; exercising before your eye my Priestly Function according to the order of Melchisedech, with which power I do also invest you, and appoint you to do the like, even