A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

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 ⟨p. 471⟩of analogy unto them who of old served at the altar, do call Priests; but that any should intervene between God and Christ in Sacrificing, or the discharge of his Priestly office, you will not find your Countrymen ready to believe. For they are persuaded there are as many Mediators, and Sureties as Priests or Sacrificers of the New Covenant.

5. Moreover it is greatly opposite to your Countreymens 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 meerly from the mortality and death of them that preceded, they believe that no Priest can be sustituted 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 abreviation of Presbyter, or out ⟨p. 471⟩of analogy unto them who of old served at the altar, do call Priests; but that any should intervene between God and Christ in Sacrificing, or the discharge of his Priestly office, you will not find your Countrymen ready to believe. For they are perswaded there are as many Mediators, and Sureties as Priests or Sacrificers of the New Covenant.