Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	blood_n	eternal_a	spot_n	1,208	5	9.7914	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01372	A briefe treatise against the priesthood & sacrifice of the Church of Rome wherein the simple may perceiue their intollerable impietie, usurping that office and action, which euer appertaine to Christ onely / by G.G.	G. G.	1584 (1584)	STC 11493.5; ESTC S2680	22,365	64

challēge to themselues greater honour than any Angel hath euen the honour that is due alone vnto the onely begotten sonne of God And yet where the scripture sheweth that this honour was giuen vnto Christ with an oth they will haue part with him being not able to bring one sentence of the worde to prooue that there shoulde be any Priest besides Christ He neuer ordained any Priest no one of his Apostles was called a Priest and in euerie point their order is so contrarie vnto the order of Melchisedech this I say might satisfie but yet to lay open their trecherie further we will proue that they haue abused the world and made them worship that for God which was but a cake of flower I will not goe farre for proofe hereof for it is manifestly and fully to be prooued by that which the holie Ghost hath set downe as concerning the sacrifice of the Newe Testament in the Epistle to the Hebrewes Those reasons which are there brought to proue that the sacrifices of the lawe could doe nothing and therefore were to be abolished will also serue to throw downe the abominable idol of the Papists For if the weaknes of those former sacrifices were gathered by their nature and order which was vsed in them then shall the sacrifice of the Masse if it bee founde to differ as farre and further from that of Christes than those be found not to be the sacrifice of the New Testament In the Epistle to the Hebrewe● Chap. 9. ver 1. it is saide that the former couenant had also ordinances of religion and a worldly sanctuarie and there he doth repeat particularly sundrie things as the candlestick the fable the shew bread the golden censure the Arke of the Testament the golden pot with Manna Aarons rod that had budded and the tables of the Testament In this worldly Sanctuarie with these foresaide ordinances of the same nature did the priestes of the law exercise their office and this is one argument to prooue that their Priesthood was weake and coulde not bring men vnto God For the habitation of God is in the heauens there is his throne of glorie and most high maiestie thither must those be brought which shal come vnto him whereupon it followeth that the Priest that shall bring men vnto God must be a minister of the Tabernacle of Heauen For the entring into the holie place made with handes the ministring in the same with ordinances of the like nature that is to saye earthly a transitorie can by no meanes bring men eternally vnto God For how shall earthly things compasse heauenly or things which vanish and decay bring that to passe which shall last for euer Those Priestes therefore whose priesthood was transitorie for their priesthood must needes be of the same nature and condition that their temple and ordinances were and can stand no longer than they were for to cease when the time was come vnto which they were prefixed Vnto th●se is Christ opposed in the same Chapter ver 24. where he sayeth that Christ is not entred into the holie places made with handes which are similitudes of the true sanctuarie but is entred into heauen it selfe to appeare in the sight of God for vs. For as the sacrifice which he offred was heauenly and of eternall power so also is his Tabernacle and likewise his Priesthood For those three must euer be ioyned together Then if the Priesthood of Aaron and his sacrifices could do nothing but were to cease because their Tabernacle and ordinances were worldly how much lesse shall the greasie Popish priestes be able to offer any sacrifice to appease Gods wrath séeing the sacrifice which must do that is heauenly and spiritual and cannot be offred in a worldly sanctuarie nor with such ordinances as be of earthie nature For it is most manifest that all the trinkets and trash of Popish Massemongers wherewithal they do iuggle play with their Mammets are earthly and transitorie so is also their Temple and Altars and consequently their priesthood And further also it is certaine that the Priesthood of Aaron might rather be called heauenly than theirs because it was the paterne of the heauenly and he was called vnto that honour of God but they can shewe no calling thereto at all Who then is so blind but may sée that séeing the sacrifice propitiatorie cannot be offred by an earthly Priest nor with earthly ordinances that the white cake which the vncleane shaueling the Baalamite doth holde vp ouer his head is not the sonne of God but a dead Idol If the blinde idolatous Papistes will obiect that the efficacie of their sacrifice and priesthood is heauenly although it be executed on earth they are to be aunswered that if the efficacie of their priesthood be heauenly then is it eternall but they are mortal and do not remaine Priestes worlde without ende Againe the power of the sacrifice dependeth vpō the power of the Priest 〈◊〉 so their sacrifice is not eternall This thing shal be yet more manifest by 〈◊〉 further comparison which is made betwéene the sacrifice of Christ and those of the lawe in the same Chapter ver● 13. 14. where it is shewed that if the bloud of calues and of goates and the ashes of a red Heffer sprinkling those that were defiled did sanctifie as touching the carnall purging then howe much more shall the bloud of Christ which by his eternall spirite offred him selfe to God without spot purge your conscience from dead workes to serue the liuing God This comparison is brought in to prooue that Christ by entring once into the holie places by his owne bloud hath founde eternall redemption for that being the summe of the two verses going next before is proued by this It was graunted without controuersie that by reason of gods ordinance y● bloud of those poore beasts and the water made with the ashes of the Heffer being but a dead thing had power in some manner to purge as namely that which he calleth the carnal purging For if a man were polluted with any outwarde pollution and therefore might not come vnto those holie thinges which were the carnall commandements being but shadowes and ceremonies yet if he were sprinkled with those although he were not purged within frō sinne he was counted cleane then how much more shall the bloud of the sonne of God which hath the power of life in it because it is the bloud of him that was not onely a man so holie that he was without spot but also God For herein lyeth the strength of the argument which the holie ghost vseth to prooue that Christ at once by his bloud hath purged the conscience from same for euer that this sacrifice was offred by his eternall spirit which is his godhead For the godhed hauing eternall power of life the flesh and bloud of the man●od ioyned so with the godhead that they made one person had also the same power so that although the bloud