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A09827	Fyve homiles of late, made by a ryght good and vertuous clerke, called master Leonarde Pollarde, prebendary of the Cathedrall Churche of Woster, directed and dedicated to the ryght reuerende Father in God Rychard by the permissyon of God bysshoppe of Woster his specyall good Lorde. Vewed, examined, and alowed by the right reuerende Father in God Edmonde byshop of London, within whose diocese they are imprinted. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum	Pollard, Leonard, d. 1556.	1556 (1556)	STC 20091; ESTC S105125	57,542	98

maketh al this businesse ageynst the blessed sacrament sacryfyce bycause that these being made nothyng worth they might without reprofe lyue fleshely But to returne ageyne vnto our purpose The thynges beinge as I haue told you and it so playnely taught to vs by the scryptures it is to wyt that these three the testament the priesthod and the sacryfyce be alway so ioyntly together that the one of them is neuer founde without the other that is neyther the testament without the priesthod and the sacryfyce nor they without the testament It requyreth in order that we do say briefely what these be and howe they do agree together And concernyng the fyrst that is the testamente ye shall vnderstande good people though we call the bookes wherein the lawe of God is conteyned the testamentes yet in dede they be but as it were tables or scrolles wherein the explication or the playne declaration of the testamentes be conteyned for what man is so fonde that thynketh the olde testamente to haue begon at Moyses who was in dede but the writer of the olde testament Or is there any so ignorante of our religion that thynketh the newe testamente to haue begonne at the Euangelistes and not at Chryste whome we do well knowe to haue made perfecte his testament or euer any of the Euangelistes dyd wryte Mary ye shall vnderstande that the same that we call the testamente Ge. 9.17 Ieremi 31 doth God almyghty call Pactum that is his couenauntes or agrementes with vs and oures with hym The couenauntes ye lyste to knowe when they were made and with what wordes they were vttered ye shall vnderstande that the fyrst and elder testament was made betwyxt God almyghty Adam our fyrst father in paradyce Gene. 3. which was that Adam beinge a man nowe cast forth of Gods fauour and by his deseruynge moste iustly adiudged vnto death shulde be reconcyled to gods fauour and restored to lyfe ageyne by the appoynted sede of the woman which was our sauyour Iesu Chryst by whom the serpentes heade by which is vnderstande the power ryght that the fiende had ouer man shulde be broken so that Adam those that shulde come of Adam wolde faythfully wayte for the commynge of our sauiour and in the meane season labour to do god seruice so nere as mans frayltie wold suffer them Nowe wot ye well good people that this agrement was very pleasaunt and ioyful vnto Adam and all those that were faythfull were very gladde that they shulde be restored ageine vnto theyr fyrst dignitie the which they had lost by disobedience And herein as it were to beate wytnesse betwyxt god and man of this agrement there were chosen priestes the which at the beginninge whyles the lawe of nature did raigne were chosen of the chiefest and heades of the people and so was Noe for his houshold and Abraham for his housholde and Melchisedeth kynge of Salym a priest for his whole kyngedome Gene. 8. Gene. 12. Gene. 14. Gene. 22. Iob. 1. Afterwardes when the people began to forget gods couenantes and the chiefe of the people began to mynde the worde more then god then God caused Moyses to publyshe his testamente in wrytynge and dyd then chose out the stocke of Leuy to be his priestes vntyll that testament that was made to Adam in Paradyce shulde be chaunged Marke 2. Mark 17 And to the intent that they shulde the better mynde God and set the lesse by the worlde he appoynted them to lyue by the sacryfyces whiche were offered vnto hym Ibi. 18. These then that is bothe the priestes that were vnder the lawe of nature and vnder the lawe of Moyses dyd offer the sacryfice of the people vnto god that is they in theyr offyce doynge were wytnesses betwyxt god and the people that he was the god that had made the promesse that these were the people that dyd faythfully trust and loke for the same to be performed Leuiti 9. The whiche that it myght be the better perceaued and more faythfully borne in theyr remembrance Leui. 19. he toke some lyuely thing and slewe it in theyr syght that they seinge the thynge that had not deserued so to be ordered to be burnte and consumed in theyr syght might the better consider how they thē selues had deserued thus to be ordered that is to be burned slayne consumed but yet that almighty god had translated the death from them and layde it vpon our sauyour Chryst who hauynge no cause of death in hym selfe no more then the innocente lambes had Esei 53. yet shulde be slayne for them Nowe se I pray you and if they had not the most innocent death of our sauiour euen as it were expressed and set before theyr eyes when they dyd thus presently beholde the slaughter of those beastes Do not you thynke the syght and beholdynge of those sacryfices though they were but figures dyd better cause them to remember Chrystes deathe then yf they shuld haue hard of it in the wordes or teachynge of priestes Nowe then yese what the testamēt the priesthod and the sacryfyce be it is also nowe necessary that ye knowe howe many testamētes there be and howe they do dyffer Fyrst for the nomber of thē ye knowe that they be two the one made of God vnto man in Paradyce Gene. 3. Math. 3. the other made of god vnto man at the baptysynge of our sauyour Chryst In the one god promysed that the sede of the woman shulde breake the serpentes heade In the other he sayde this is my well beloued sonne in whom I am well pleased heare hym the which is as much as yf he had sayde this is the sede that breaketh the serpentes heade I that was angrye with you before am nowe fully reconsyled vnto you nowe I requyre no more of you but that ye wyll become his diligent and saythfull scholers These twoo testamentes as ye se do dyffer in these poyntes Fyrst that the fyrst dyd teache a promesse this teacheth a performaunce The fyrst had his perferte ende at Christes death and passion the seconde had his absolute and perfecte beginnynge at the same and therefore calleth the scrypture out sauyour Chryst the corner stone as one shulde say a stone in whom the two walles that is the two testamentes were cowpled together Psal 117 Math. 21. Eph. 2. For Chryste in his death was bothe a prieste accordynge to the order of Aron bicause he was offered with bloodsheding whiche was the maner of sacryfysynge in the order or priestehod of Aron August deciuitat● liber 20. La. 20. and he was also in the same passion a priest of the newe testament in so much as that he dyd offer hym selfe for that by the doctrine of saynt Augustine is proper to the sacryfyce of the Churche For Chryst sayth that beinge bothe the prieste that offered and the sacryfyce that was offered taught his Churche both to offer