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The funeral of the mass, or, The mass dead and buried without hope of resurrection translated out of French.; Tombeau de la messe. English
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Derodon, David, ca. 1600-1664.; S. A.
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the Priests of the Romish Church so and consequently cannot be after the order of Melchisedec and they that have written the lives of the Popes have sufficiently declared what righteousness and peace they have procured for the true and faithful servants of Jesus Christ as I shall shew at large elsewhere Secondly The Apostle Heb. 7. represents Melchisedec to us as a man come from heaven without father without mother without descent having neither beginning of days nor end of life not that he was really such a one but because Moses hath wholy concealed from us his Father Mother Descent Birth and Death that he might be the type of Christ who was without Father as he is Man without Mother as God without Descent both as God and as man having neither beginning of days as God nor end of life as God or as Man But the Fathers Descent Birth and Death of Aaron and other High Priests are exactly described by Moses And there were never any Popes Bishops or Priests whose Parents Birth and Death were not known and consequently they cannot be after the order of Melchisedec Thirdly The Apostle adds that Melchisedec being made like unto the Son of God abideth a Priest for ever because Moses makes no mention of his death nor of any one that succeeded him in his Priestly office that so he might be the type of Jesus Christ who never left his Priestly office but will exercise it until the end of the World always interâ—â—ding for those that are his by presenting his sacrifice to God the Father continually As for Aaron and other Priests they are dead and have had successors And the Popes Bishops and Priests die daily and have successors and consequently are not after the order of Melchisedec Fourthly The Apostle saith likewise that Melchisedec took tithes of Abraham and adds that Melchisedec blessed him that had the Promises viz. Abraham and that the less is blessed of the greater Whence it appears that Melchisedec having taken tithes of Abraham and blessed him and Levi and all the Priests in his person was more excellent then Abraham Levi and all the Priests In which respect he was a type of Jesus Christ who was infinitely more excellent then Abraham and all his successors because he in whom all the promises were fulfilled must needs be incomparably more excellent then he that received them only But I do not believe that the Priests of the Romish Church are so bold as to prefer themselves before Abraham the Father of the Faithful in whose seed all the Nations of the Earth are blessed and consequently are not after the order of Melchisedec Fifthly The Apostle never spake of the sacrifice of Melchisedec so far was he from comparing it with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as being like it or with that of Aaron as being unlike it so that all that our Adversaries say of it is nothing else but meer humane invention 29. I conclude my answer with this Argument Jesus Christ hath offered no sacrifice but after the order whereof he was established a Priest But he was established a Priest after the order of Melchisedec only as the Apostle observes Therefore he hath offered no sacrifice but after the order of Melchisedec But according to the Romish Doctors there is no other sacrifice after the order of Melchisedec but that of the Mass Therefore according to the Romish Doctors Jesus Christ hath offered no other sacrifice but that of the Mass And seeing according to them the sacrifice of the Mass is an unbloudy sacrifice it follows that Jesus Christ hath offered no other sacrifice but an unbloudy sacrifice and consequently he hath not offered a bloudy sacrifice on the Cross which is blasphemy THE END