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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

of God but The popish sacrifice is abomination to God a wicked abbomination no more pleasing unto God than if men should offer a dogge in sacrifice unto him It might suffice to satisfie a modest minde that all which they doe is naught because they doe make themselves Priests after the order of Melchisedech and so do challenge to themselves greater honour than any Angell hath even the honour that is due alone unto the onely begotten Son of God And yet where the scripture sheweth that this honour was given unto Christ with an oath they will have part with him being not able to bring one sentence of the word to prove that there should be any Priest besides Christ He never ordained any Priest no one of his Apostles was called a Priest and in every point their order is so contrary unto the order of Melchisedech this I say might satisfie but yet to lay open their trechery further we will prove that they have 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 prooved by that which the holy Ghost hath set downe as concerning the sacrifice of the New Testament in the Epistle to the Hebrewes Those reasons which are there brought to prove that the sacrifices of the law could doe nothing and therefore were to be abolished will also serve 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 used in them then shall the sacrifice of the Masse if it bee found 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 Hebrewes Chap. 9. ver 1 it is said that the former covenant had also ordinances of religion and a worldly sanctuary and there he doth repeate particularly sundry things as the Candlesticke the Table 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 Sanctuary with these foresaid ordinances of the same nature did the priests of the law exercise their office and this is one argument to prove that their priesthood was weake and could not bring men unto God For the habitation of God is in the heavens there is his throne of glory and most high majesty thither must those be brought which shall come unto him whereupon it followeth that the Priest that shall bring men unto God must be a minister of the Tabernacle of Heaven For the entring into the holy place made with hands and the ministring in the same with ordinances of the like nature that is to say earthly and transitory can by no meanes bring men eternally unto God For how shall earthly things compasse heavenly or things which vanish and decay bring that to passe which shall last for ever Those Priests therefore whose priesthood was transitory for their priesthood must needs 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 unto which they were prefixed Vnto these is Christ opposed in the same Hebr. 9. ver 24. where he saith that Christ is not entred into the holy places made with hands which are similitudes of the true sanctuary but is entred into heaven it selfe to appeare in the sight of God for us For as the sacrifice which he offred was heavenly and of eternall power so also is his Tabernacle and likewise his Priesthood For those three must ever be joyned together Then if the Priesthood of Aaron and his sacrifices could doe 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 seeing the sacrifice which must do that is heavenly and spirituall and cannot be offred in a worldly sanctuary nor with such ordinances as be of earthie nature For it is most manifest that all the trinkets ●…l the Popish ●…nkets are ●…rthly and trash of Popish Masse mongers wherewithall they do juggle and play with their Mammets are earthly and transitory so is also their Temple and Altars and consequently their Priesthood And further also it is certaine that the Priesthood of Aaron ●…on was cal●…d of God might rather be called heavenly than theirs because it was the paterne of the heavenly and he was called unto that honour of God but they can shew no calling thereto at all Who then is so blinde but may see that seeing the sacrifice propitiatory The Priests ●…hite cake o●…er his head is ●… dead idol cannot be offred by an earthly Priest nor with earthly ordinances that the white cake which the uncleane shaveling the Baalamite doth hold up over his head is not the Sonne of God but a dead Idol If the blinde idolatous Papists will object that the efficacy of their sacrifice and priesthood is heavenly although it be executed on earth they are to be answered that if the efficacy of their priest hood be heavenly then is it eternall but they are mortall and doe not remaine Priests world without ende Againe the power of the sacrifice dependeth upon the power of the priest and so their sacrifice is not eternall This thing shall be yet more manifest by a further comparison which is made betweene the sacrifice of Christ and those of the law in the same Chapter verse 13. and 14. where Heb. 9. 13. ●… 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 how much more shall the bloud of Christ which by his eternall spirit offred himselfe to God without spot purge your conscience from dead workes to serve the living God This comparison is brought in to prove that Christ by entring once into the holy places by his owne bloud hath found eternall redemption for that being the summe of the two verses going next before is proved by this It was graunted without controversie that by reason of gods ordinances the 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 carnall purging For if a man were polluted with any outward pollutiō and there fore might not come unto those holy things which were the carnall commandements being but shadowes and ceremonies yet if he were sprinkled with those although he were not purged within from 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 Note this of him that

was not only a man so holy that he was without spot but also God For herein lyeth the strength of the argument which the holy ghost useth to prove that Christ at once by his bloud hath purged the conscience from sinne for ever that this sacrifice was offered by his eternall spirit which is his godhead For the godhead having eternall power of life the flesh and bloud of the manhood joyned so with the godhead that they made one person had also the same power so that although the bloud of Christ of it selfe had not power at once to purge eternally yet because it was the bloud of God it had that force Hereupō 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 eternal Hereupon we may strongly conclude against the Papists and that with a double conclusion First that seeing no sacrifice hath the vertue to purge away sinne but because it is offered by the eternall spirit And secondly that his purging once made being that which is made by the eternall Godhead is perfect for ever By the first it is manifest that they are not able to offer a sacrifice propitiatory because they are mortall men by the second that there is no place for them the worke of purging sinne being already accomplished for ever If there be a new 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 upon them to do that which he hath already perfectly finished Come forth ye blinde Papists and prove that ye are more than men shew 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 We may joyne hereūto that which is used to prove that the sacrifices of the Leviticall priestes did not purge sinne namely that they were so often offered For thereby the holy Ghost doth teach that they were not able to sanctifie the commers therto Heb. 10. 1. For then as he sayeth they should haue ceased because there should have beene 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 have taken away the disease and perfected the cure then is it vaine to adde it any more If it be still continually and from time to time applyed to the sore as still remaining then it may be said truely that the same medicine doth 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 expiation This disease of sinne still remaining as the continuall mention and remembrance thereof doeth shew it followeth that those sacrifices did nor could not purge it away Vnto these is opposed the sacrifice of Christ which because it hath perfectly purged sinne for ever so that there remaineth no more conscience thereof in those that are sanctified it is done but once and never to be repeated or don againe The other which were Priests in the law stood daily ministring and often offring the same sacrifices which could never take away sinne But this man having offered one sacrifice for sinne sitteth for ever at the right hand of God from henceforth waiting untill his enemies be made his footstoole Heb. 10. ver 11. 12. The former did stand daily ministring as those which had not nor could not accomplish the worke of reconciliation although they offred never so often But he having once offered ceaseth from offring and is set downe in the highest throne of majesty and glory because as it is there said he hath with one oblation made perfect for ever those which are sanctified If his sacrifice did abolish sinne but for a time as for a yeere or certaine yeres then should he either bring nothing to passe or else returne often and sundry times from his glory to offer againe This is also confirmed in the same Chapter ver 18. by a conclusion which is drawen out of the forme of words which the Lord useth in the promise which he maketh of the New 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 given pardon and remission for that he collecteth and where there is pardon there is no more sacrifice for sinne Now therefore when we see this to be most manifest by the plaine doctrine of Gods word let us consider the abominable wickednesse of the Papists which by their sacrifice overturne all this For whereas there is remission of sinnes already purchased what place can there be for their sacrifice propitiatory whereas that sacrifice is unperfect and cannot take away sinne which is often offred how is theirs the perfect sacrifice of Christs body which is continually done againe and againe What doe 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 Papists deny the promise●… the New Testament New Testament hath failed and that sinne is yet remembred no remission as yet obtained And further when they will needes have him offred so often is it not as much as to deny the effect and power of the bloud of Christ Is it not quite contrary to this that with one oblation he hath made perfect for ever those that are sanctified But here they take exception and say that they do not offer any new sacrifice but the same And moreover that their oblation is but an application of the fruit of that which Christ offered and that because we see and feele in our selues that we are still guilty all which is but a blinde cavill For what though they say they offer the same did not the Priests the Sonnes of Aaron yeerely offer still the same doth not the power of the reason stand in this to prove that they were not available because then they should have ceased Can they deny 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 offering Note this hath he made perfect for ever those which are sanctified This doth cut the throte of their often offring when his one offring had made perfect for ever for it leaveth nothing behinde for such caitives as they be And further where they pretend this necessity because we have still guiltie consciences therein they are more than beasts for the guiltinesse of our consciences is not for this that there needeth any sacrifice to be offered to satisfie and purge sinne but through the remnants of iniquity which