A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

But what of all this? if the Apostles used the Sacrifice you talk of, that of the Mass, is it meet we should do so also? Hereof you say, were not the Apostles according to this rite [Greek or Hebrew] Sacrificing to our great Lord God, when Paul was by imposition of hands segregated from the Layity to his Divine Service, as I clearly in my Paragraph […] out of the History of the Acts of the Apostles? […] you, the Apostles were not then about any Sacrifice, but only preaching Gods word or some such thing to the people in the name and behalf of God. But Sir, is this to be in earnest or jest? the sacred text says they were Sacrificing to our Lord, liturgying and ministering unto him; you say they were not Sacrificing to God, but only preaching to the people. And now ⟨p. 465⟩the Question is whither you or I more rightly understand that Apostolical Book; for my sense and meaning I have all Antiquity as well as the plain words of the sacred Text; You have neither.

But what of all this? if the Apostles used the Sacrifice you talk of, that of the Mass, is it meet we should do so also? Hereof you say, were not the Apostles according to this rite 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Sacrificing to our great Lord God, when Paul was by imposi•ion of hands segregated from the Layity to his Divine Service, as I clearly in my Paragraph 〈…〉 out of the History of the Acts of the Apostles? 〈…〉 you, the Apostles were not then about any Sacrifice, but only preaching Gods word or some such thing to the people in the name and behalf of God. But Sir, is this to be in earnest or jest? the sacred text says they were Sacrificing to our Lord, liturgying and ministring unto him; you say they were not Sacrificing to God, but only preaching to the people. And now ⟨p. 465⟩the Question is whither you or I more rightly understand that Apostolical Book; for my sense and meaning I have all Antiquity as well as the plain words of the sacred Text; You have neither.