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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01374	A briefe treatise against the priesthood and sacrifice of the Church of Rome vvherein the simple may perceiue thir intollerable impietie, usurping that office and action, which ever appertaine to Christ only, by G.G.	Gifford, George, d. 1620.	1635 (1635)	STC 11495; ESTC S120395	23,034	41

remaine in us because of the weakenes and imperfection of our faith for in these we are not to looke to any satisfaction yet behind but to take hold of that perfect one which hath already satisfied If that act of theirs be propitiatory then is not sinne fully discharged by the other Thus blasphemous they are not onely in this their God of dough but also in all other their satisfactions for sinne and in their doctrine of Purgatory For if there remaine any satisfaction or purgation to be ●… are fully charged be●…e God for ●… made then is it not true that he hath made perfect for ever neither was his death then of full and sufficient price True it is that although we are by his one oblation fully and perfectly discharged for ever before God from the guiltinesse of our sinnes yet we are not in the full possession of this benefit nor shall not be untill the last day for then shall his enemies be made his footestoole The Divell sinne and death are these enimies which he hath overcome that they cannot raigne over us but yet we must in the meane time wrestle with thē not therefore esteeming the power of Christs death to be the lesse because they be not already utterly abolished as the wicked unbeleeving Papists do and therefore set up trash of their owne to destroy sinne but waiting for that appointed time when the full power of his death shall appeare in the meane time staying by faith and resting our selves on that one sacrifice once offred To conclude then hath not the mighty spirit of God power to apply unto us the vertue of that bloud but such silly virmin as the Popish priests must helpe The holy ghost calling upon us and teaching us to apply Gods spiri●…●…plies to us●… death of C●… these benefits willeth us to draw neere with a true heart with full assurance of faith Heb. 10. ver 22. we come unto him with the heart after a spirituall manner because all things in him are spirituall we are bid to approch to lay hold of him by faith for we can not either with the hand or with the mouth And seeing there is not so much as one sentence in all the booke of God which speaketh of any application of his death any other way it must needes be concluded againe that they may be as good priests as the priests of Baal and no● better and that when they hold up their idol Christ is not betweene their fingers Let us go forward It shall yet be more manifest by the words of the holy Ghost that this sacrifice of the masse is so farre from being the sacrifice of the New Testament that it doth flatly goe against it For he saith as concerning Christ that he did not offer himselfe often as the high priest went yerely into the holy place with other bloud Heb. 9. ver 25. and then in the next verse he giveth a reason namely that then hee should have suffered often since the beginning of the world This sentence is very mighty against the Papists because it driveth them from all their shifts and leaveth them naked and destitute but the force of it will not appeare unlesse we looke upon what principles it is grounded to prove that if Christ should have offred himselfe often then must he also have suffered death often since the beginning of the world Among the which this offereth it selfe as the first to be considered that all the holy fathers the Patriarches and Prophets from the beginning could have no entrance unto God but by remission of sinnes and that whereas otherwise they had the dore shut against them by this they were restored into favour and received For it cannot be denyed but that by nature they were sinners as we be and that God cannot receive sinners Being therefore out of controversie that they obteined life it must needes follow that they had pardon for if either there had beene no sinne or no pardon to be graunted what necessity could there be of a sacrifice The second principle without which the reason of the Apostle cannot stand is this that there can bee no remission but onely by the sacrifice of Christ for if any other sacrifice or any other way or meane might obtaine it then were there not a necessity why hee should often suffer For although there were a necessity of remission of sinnes unlesse all should be damned yet he might be set free from the same necessity of offring himselfe seeing there were other wayes to obtaine it but the holy Ghost standeth upon this as a matter not to be doubted of that neither there is nor never hath beene any thing able to destroy sinne or to take away the guiltinesse of it by makeing satisfaction but onely the sacrifice of the Sonne of God For howsoever the idolatrous Infidels do ascribe unto many things the power of purging and satisfying for sinne yet the holy word of God and those which beleeve it do give that glory onely unto Christ and euen as his great glory wherein he hath no fellow The third thing without which an exception might be iustly taken against the foresaid reason is this that there could be no oblation of Christ but he must suffer death for when he sayeth he should not offer him selfe often he addeth this cause that then he should have suffred often It were and easie matter if the offring of Christ were any thing available without suffring death to say there were no necessity wherefore he should suffer often seing he might be offred and not be slaine But this is strengthened by that which goeth before in the same Chapter where he hath shewed that Heb. 9 the testament is confirmed when men are dead because it is of no force while the Testator liveth and so he is the Mediator of the New Testament but yet through death Wherefore also the former testament in which there were but the shadowes and paterne of heavenly things was ratified by death as it is proved by this that it was not dedicated without bloud For when Moses had read the law unto the people he tooke the bloud of Calues and Goates with water and purple Woll and Hyssop he sprinkled both the booke and the people saying this is the bloud of the Testament which God hath commanded unto you Likewise also he sprinkled the Tabernacle and all the ministring vessels with bloud and almost all things sayeth he by the law are purged with bloud and without shedding of bloud there is no remission Here is then a manifest reason wherefore Christ could not be offred often but he must then also dy often even because the testament is of no force without the death of the testator Here is further shewed wherefore it cannot be available without death that is to say there is no remission of sinnes without shedding of bloud Christ therefore could not be offred often unlesse it should be to no purpose which is most absurd