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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

of Christ of it self had not power at once to purge eternally yet because it was the bloud of God it had that force Hereupon it followeth that the power of that purging by his bloud being eternall and that one purgation being perfect the redemption which he hath found is eternall Hereupon we may strongly cōclude against the Papistes that with a double conclusion First that séeing no sacrifice hath the vertue to purge away sinne but because it is offered by the eternall spirite And secondly that his purging once made being that which is made by the eternall Godhead is perfect for euer By the first it is manifest that they are not able to offer a sacrifice propitiatorie because they are mortal mē by the seconde that there is no place for them the worke of purging sinne being alreadie accomplished for euer If there be a newe redemption to be wrought then let them be the priestes in the meane time they are foule idolaters and sacrilegious wretches destroying the power of Christs death when they will take vppon them to do that which he hath alreadie perfectly finished Come forth ye blind Papists and proue that ye are more than men shewe also that the sacrifice of Christ once offered hath not an eternall and perfect power to purge away sinne or else confesse that yours is Antichristian Wee may ioyne hereunto the which is vsed to proue that the sacrifices of the Leuiticall Priestes did not purge sinne namely that they were so often offered For thereby the holie ghost doth teach that they were not able to sanctifie the commers thereto Heb. 10. 1. For then as he sayeth they shoulde haue ceased because there should haue béene no more conscience of sinne in the worshippers being once purged The reason is manifest drawen from the effect of the medicine for if it haue taken away the disease and perfected the cure then is it vaine to adde it any more If it be still continually from time to time applyed to the sore as still remaining then it may be said truely that the same medicine doeth not heale Wherefore he addeth this proofe that notwithstanding the sacrifices were offred yet there remained the mention of sinnes yerely when they kept that solemne day of ●rpiation This disease of sinne still remaining as the continuall mention remembrance there● doeth shewe it followeth that those sacrifices did not nor could not purge it away Unto these is opposed the sacrifice of Christ which because it hath perfectly purged sinne for euer so that there remaineth no more conscience thereof in those that are sanctified it is done but once and neuer to be repeated or don again The other which were Priestes in the lawe stoode daily ministring and often offring the same sacrifices which coulde neuer take away sinne But this man hauing offered one sacrifice for sinne sitteth for euer at the right hand of God frō henceforth waiting vntill his enimies be made his soo●●loole Heb. 10. ver● 11 12. The former did stand daily mini●●ring as those which had not nor coul●● not accomplish the work of reconcil●ation although they offred neuer so often But he hauing once offered ●easeth from offring and is set downe in the highest throne of maiestie and glorie because as it is there saide he hath with one oblatiō made perfect for euer those which are sanctified If his sacrifice did abolish sinne but for a time as for a yere or certaine yeres then should he either bring nothing to passe or else returne often and sundrie times from his glorie to offer againe This is also confirmed in the same Chapter ver 18. by a conclusion which is drawen out of the forme of wordes which the Lorde vseth in the promise which he maketh of the Newe Testament as namely that he will remember their sinnes and their iniquities no more He reasoneth in this manner where God remembreth not sinne there he hath giuen pardon and remission for that he colle●teth and where there is pardon ther is no more sacrifice for sinne Now therefore when we see this to be most manifest by the plaine doctrine of Gods worde let vs consider the abominable wickednes of the Papistes which by their sacrifice ouerturne all this For whereas there is remission of sinnes alreadie purchased what place can ther be for their sacrifice propitiatorie whereas that sacrifice is vnperfect and cannot take away sinne which is often offred how is theirs the perfect sacrifice of Christes bodie which is continually done againe and againe What do they lesse therefore when they teach that in the Masse they offer Christ to his father to be a sacrifice to take away sinne than affirme that the promise of the New Testament hath failed that sinne is yet remembred no remi●●ion as yet obtained And further when they will needes haue him offred so ●●●ten is it not as much as to denye the effect and power of the bloud of Christ Is it not quite contrarie to this that with one oblation he hath made perfect for euer those that are sanctified But here they take exception and say that they do not offer any new sacrifice but the same And moreouer that their oblation is but an application of the fruit of that which Christ offered and that because we sée féele in our selues that we are still guiltie all which is but a blinde cauill For what though they say they offer the same did not the priests the sonnes of Aaron yerely offer still the same doth not the power of the reason stand in this to proue that they were not auailable because then they should haue ceased Can they denie but that they offer often Further he doeth not place the perfect worke in the sacrifice of Christ because it was but one but because it was but once offred for he saith not with one sacrifice but with one offring hath he made perfect for euer those which are sanctified This doth cut the throte of their oftē offring when his one offring had made perfect for euer for it leaueth nothing behind for such caitiues as they be And further where they pretende this necessitie because we haue still guiltie consciences therein they are more than beasts for the guiltinesse of our consciences is not for this that there néedeth any sacrifice to be offered to satisfie and purge sinne but through the remnants of iniquitie which remaine in vs because of the weaknes 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 alreadie satisfied If that act of theirs bée propitiatorie 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 the●● doctrine of Purgatorie For if there remaine any satisfaction or purgation to be made then is it not true that he hath made perfect for euer