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A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux
A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux wherein the principles of the Roman church, as to moderation, unity and truth are examined and sundry important controversies concerning the rule of faith, papal supremacy, the mass, images, &c. discussed / by John Owen.
London: printed for Ph. Stephens, 1664
A Vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat Lux. › Chapter 19
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3. Besides they will quickly discover your pretensions to be contrary unto what the Scripture teacheth them, both concerning the Sacrifice of Christ and also his institution of his last supper, which is your Rule and compriseth the whole of your Duty in the administration of it. They do not find that therein Christ offered himself unto his Father, but to his Disciples; not to him to be accepted of him, but to them to be by faith received.
3. Besides they will quickly discover your pretensions to be contrary unto what the Scripture teacheth them, both concerning the Sacrifice of Christ and also his institution of his last supper, which is your Rule and comprizeth the whole of your Duty in the administration of it. They do not find that therein Christ offered himself unto his Father, but to his Disciples; not to him to be accepted of him, but to them to be by faith received.
4. And whereas the Apostle expressly affirms that he offered himself but once, if he offered himself a Sacrifice in his last Supper, you must maintain that he offered himself twice, unless you will deny his Sacrifice on the Cross.
4. And whereas the Apostle expresly affirms that he offered himself but once, if he offered himself a Sacrifice in his last Supper, you must maintain that he offered himself twice, unless you will deny his Sacrifice on the Cross.
5. Moreover it is greatly opposite to your Countrymen's faith about the Priesthood of Christ and his real Sacrifice, which are to them things of that moment, that whosoever shakes their faith in and about them, shakes the very foundations of their hope, consolation and salvation. They have been taught that Christ remains an High Priest for ever, and the multiplication of Priests in succession arising merely from the mortality and death of them that preceded, they believe that no Priest can be substituted unto him in his office to offer a proper Sacrifice unto God, the same which he offered himself, without a supposition of an insufficiency in him for his work. It is true there are persons who in his name and Authority, as he is the great Prophet of the Church, do Minister unto it, whom some of them, either as the word may be an abbreviation of Presbyter, or out