A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

1. You always contend that it is a proper Sacrifice which you intend. The first Canon of your Council ⟨p. 458⟩accurseth them who deny it to be verum & proprium Sacrificium, a True and proper Sacrifice, wherein as they say before Christus inimolatur, Christ is Sacrificed. Many things in the New Testament in respect of their Analogy unto the Institutions of the old, are called Sacrifices, even almost all spiritual actions that are acceptable unto God in Christ. The preaching of the Gospel unto the conversion of sinners, is termed Sacrificing, Rom. 15. 16. So is Faith it self, Phil. 2. 17. So Prayers and Thanksgiving are an oblation, Heb. 5. 7. chap. 13. 15. and good works are called Sacrifices, Heb. 13. 16. Phil. 4. 18. And our whole Christian Obedience is intimated by Peter so to be. In the Sacrament of the Eucharist it is that you seek for your Sacrifice. And if you would be contented to call it, and esteem it so, upon the account of its comprising some of the things before mentioned, or merely as a spiritual action appointed by God and acceptable unto him, there would be an end of this contest. But you must have it a proper Sacrifice, like those of Aaron of old: not a remembrance of the Sacrifice of Christ, but a Sacrifice of Christ himself, wherein Christus immolatur, Christ is sacrificed, as the Council speaks.

1. You alwayes contend that it is a proper Sacrifice which you intend. The first Canon of your Council ⟨p. 458⟩accurseth them who deny it to be verum & proprium Sacrificium, a True and proper Sacrifice, wherein as they say before Christus inimolatur, Christ is Sacrificed. Many things in the New Testament in respect of their Analogy unto the Institutions of the old, are called Sacrifices, even almost all spiritual actions that are acceptable unto God in Christ. The preaching of the Gospel unto the conversion of sinners, is termed Sacrificing,