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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50844	A short defence of the orders of the Church of England, as by law establish'd, against some scatter'd objections of Mr. Webster of Linne by a presbyter of the diocess of Norwich.	Milbourne, Luke, 1649-1720.	1688 (1688)	Wing M2038; ESTC R15534	26,123	38

Provisions of Immense Goodness for the Worlds Redemption from that prodigious Corruption it was immerst in If their Priesthood be such they must no more pretend to be an Evangelical much less the one Holy Catholick Church If their Sacrifices be Types of the Messiah already come they are the Prophesies of things long since past and just as good Sense If they instance in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper we believe that to be in Eucharistical Commemorative Sacrifice of which as oft as we partake worthily we present a just Offering of Thankfulness to God for the infinitely meritorious Death and Passion of our Saviour and this Sacrifice is still purely Spiritual But if they would perswade us That in that Eucharist the real natural and substantial Body of the incarnate Son of God is broken as upon the Cross that the same Blood which then ran in his veins is actually shed as by the Nails and Spear That every Priest as oft as He consecrates the Elements does so break his Body and shed his Blood and then offer them in Sacrifice to God the Father We believe no such Sacrifice can be now offered The Jewish Sacrifices grew needless when Christ had offer'd himself not as they had been useless before but as they had relation to him As their Sacrifices were no longer requir'd so no Priests were needful to attend them And this is the Argument us'd by the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews when having asserted the Imperfection of Judaic Sacrifices the impossibility that the Blood of Bulls and Goats should take away sin he shows us how Jesus Christ to whom he applies those words of David Sacrifices and Burnt Offerings thou wouldst not c. takes away the use of those Sacrifices that he may evidence the absolute necessity and validity of his own by which be satisfy'd and accomplish'd the will of God. By which will we are Sanctified through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all Heb. 10.10 12 14 18. Again This Man after He had offer'd one Sacrifice for Sins He sate down for ever on the Right Hand of God. And By one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified Now Christians generally relieve T●●t Christ by this one offering of himself obtain'd remission of sins for all them that Believe and then the Apostles consequence is very natural Where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin if no more offering for sins then none at all and then no need of such sacrificing Priests Nor has Estius at all prov'd the necessity of the Continuance of such propitiatory Sacrifices notwithstanding that great one of our Saviour upon the Cross who indeed was the only acceptable High Priest who had power to offer so perfect a Sacrifice It might be added That the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Incruentum Sacrificium of the Antients agrees very ill with this Transubstantiated Corporeal Sacrifice but well enough with the notion of a Commemorative and Spiritual one We might urge that of the learned Oughtram concerning the Essential difference between that of Aaron and the Evangelical Priesthood That Aarons office as a Sacrificing Priest was to manage the affairs of Men with God according to that of the Author to the Hebrews Every High Priest taken from among Men is ordain'd for Men in things appertaining to God Heb. 5.1 that he may offer both gifts and Sacrifices for men Whereas the business of the Apostles and their Successors in the Ministry of the Gospel is to manage the business of God with Men according to that of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 5.20 We are Ambassadors of Christ as tho God did beseech you by us we pray in Christs stead that you would be reconciled unto God St. Paul speaks of himself as a real Sacrificing Priest upon account of his offering up the Gentiles to God who were acceptable because Sanctified by the Holy Ghost Rom. 15.16 17. but in the same place he calls himself not the Minister of the Gentiles to Christ but the Minister of Christ to the Gentiles and therefore it 's observable That Evangelical Ministers are no where in Scripture call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oughtram de Sacris l. 1. c. 19. with relation to any such Corporeal Sacrifices as the Jews offer'd it not being the Ministry of the Apostles but the Priesthood of Jesus Christ that succeeded in the room of Aarons But the prosecution of these things would carry us too far beyond the bounds of the present Controversie only from the whole it will follow That the Sacrificing Priests of the Roman Church by deserting the Commission given by Christ to his Apostles are indeed relaps'd into Judaism or worse By which means their boasted Succession is quite broken off to the ruine of their Churches Catholicism if as they tell us a Succession of Christian Priests and Bishops be one necessary mark of such a Church And now we have reason to admire the Goodness of Almighty God who as He made the Jews the bitterest Enemies of our Saviour the preservers of those Sacred Oracles which confirm'd his Messiahship and by them as Instruments deliver'd down those Holy writings to us Gentiles to our Conviction tho they had no such effects upon that Obdurate People so he has made the Church of Rome the Conveyancer of a Truly Apostolical Hierarchy down to us tho they have almost lost it among themselves They continue still the Imposition of Hands though only as a Collateral and non-essential Ceremony which we hope may have other Effect upon them than what 's agreeable to their own Mistaken Principles But since their abuse or contempt of it cannot alter the Nature of the thing it self We deducing that Practice of Imposition of Hands from them as they from the Apostles and laying its due weight upon that Apostolical Institution without Additions or Alterations We enjoy that Ordinance full and compleat among our selves and enjoy that Succession really which they have so long Impertinently boasted and valued themselves upon FINIS