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4 The place of Malachi doth make ⟨p. 255⟩nothing for sacrificing Mass: for it was no new thing among the Prophets, when they speak of the calling of the Gentiles to express by the outward ceremony of the Law, the spiritual worshipping of God, to which they exhort them: that they might the more familiarly declare to the men of their age, that the gentiles should be called unto the true fellowship of religion. Like as also they are wont altogether to describe by figures of their law, the trueth that was delivered by the Gospel.¹ As for the place of Esdras, it is fulfilled in Christ.

4 The place of Malachie doth make ⟨p. 255⟩nothing for sacrificing Masse: for it was no new thing among the Prophetes, when they speake of the calling of the Gentiles to expresse by the outward ceremonie of the Law, the spiritual worshipping of God, to which they exhort them: that they might the more familiarly declare to the men of their age, that the gentiles should be called vnto ye true felowship of religiō. Like as also they are wont altogether to describe by figures of their lawe, the trueth that was deliuered by ye Gospell.¹ As for the place of Esdras, it is fulfilled in Christ.

1. 1Esd. 19.2•

5 The third, because it putteth out of remembrance the true and only death of Christ, and thrusteth it out of mans mind.¹