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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11355	The baterie of the Popes Botereulx, commonly called the high altare. Compiled by W.S. in the yere of oure Lorde. 1550	Salesbury, William, 1520?-1600?	1550 (1550)	STC 21613; ESTC S104718	29,852	109

recōcyle make at one God and man to offer him selfe vp for a pacifiynge Sacrifice vnto his father for mannes transgression Whiche thing the vnspeakeable mercye and the naturall kindnes of God beynge not required dyd vndeseruedly graunt vnto man as he was yet hys very enemie and most disobedient rebell And thys was the sole and onelye raunsome that redemed Adam and all hys posteritye oute of the greadye chawes of the olde Serpente Al the pacifiyng sacrifices of Moses lawe were but significations of christes sacrifice thys was the sole and onelye propiciatory sacrifice that pacified the yre of god that wholy satisfied for mannes synnes and restored man againe into frendeship and fauour of God And so all the Pacifiynge Sacrifices that euer GOD instituted and commaunded hys Seruaunte Moses to publyshe and sette forthe to the Israelites or Iewes dyd alonelye signifye the sayde Sacrifice of Christe For after that the worlde had continued aboute two thousande yeares wythout lawe or any other prescribed maner of liuynge than nature it selfe dyd minyster at the laste it pleased the hyghe maiestie of God that the mooe myghte be saued to establyshe a lawe The b●● of Moses lawe whiche shoulde as it were declare and open the Lawe that was obscurate darckened and farre degenerated by the sinister corruption which liniallye did issue from the fyrste father Adam into all hys ofsprynge Howebeit as God dyd not gyue thys lawe vnto all Nations but only to the Iewes beyng but a few in numbre in comparison of all the people in the worlde so dyd not he forthwith open the misteries conteined therein but ouer shadowed them with manifold sacrifices and diffuse rites and ceremonies being significations of good thynges to come And moreouer as the lord wēt before thē in the wildernes the day time in a piller of a cloude to lead thē the waye and the nyght tyme in a pyller of fire to giue their corporal eies lyght that they might iorney both day night toward the lād of promyse so lykewyse dyd the tender loue of God practise in furtheringe them to the very lande of promission for he did so tempre hys traditions which he commaūded vnto thē that they which were neuer wont before to be grouerned by the light of anye morall lawe and therefore grosse rude and pore blind might be traded vnder a clowdye and misticall doctrine but yet hauing many sparcles of his sunny bright gospell and so the eies of their mynde beyng nother vnmeasurably darkned nor noseled in blindnes nor yet ouermuche daseled and ouercome wyth the eyeing of shyning brightnes they mighte rather atchiue the ende of their spirituall progresse And therfore all the ceremonies cōteined in this law were none other thing The ceremonies of the lawe but introductiōs to lead vnto Christe And all these fleshe sacrifices betokened the fleshe sacrifice of Christes bodye once offered vpon thaltare of the crosse But nowe to beate downe the Iewishe bulwark that the Popes souldiours haue round about their fortresse we will recite certaine testimonies as well out of the olde testamente as of the new whyche shal euidently proue that god delighteth not though he required them for a time in the externe oblation or the vtter offerynge of the sacrifices commaunded by hym in Moses hys lawe The abrogation of sacrifice Wherefore he declared the same by the mouth of diuerse of his prophetes as it is written Mala. i. I haue no pleasure in you sayeth the Lorde of hostes and as for youre meat offerynge I wyll not accepte it at your hād Again Ose v. They kyll sacrifices bi heapes and turne farre frō the lorde and I haue bene a rebuker of them all And agayne Prou. xv The lorde abhorreth the sacrifice of the vngodly c. Item Eccle. xxxiiii The hiest doth not alowe the giftes of the wicked And God hath no delite in the offerings of the vngodly nether may sinne be reconsiled in the multitude of oblations Who so bringeth an offering out of the goodes of the pore doth euē as one that killeth the sōne before the fathers eyes And in the .l. Psal I wil not reproue the saith the lord bicause of thy sacrifices or for thy burnt offerings bicause they were not alway before me I wil take no bullock out of thy house nor no he goates out of thy folde For all the beastes of the foreste are myne and so are the cattell vpon a thousande hylles I knowe all the foules vpō the mountaynes and the wild beastes of the feild are in my syght If I be hungry I wyl not tell the for the whole worlde is mine al that therin is Thinkest thou that I wil eate Bulles fleshe and dryncke the bloude of goates And in Ieremy .iii. Chapter you shal read not of the abrogation of Sacrifices onely but also of the abrogation disanullynge of all the lawe The abrogation of the olde lawe and of the olde testamente wtall The texte goeth thys When ye are increased and multiplied in the lande than saieth the Lorde there shal no more boaste be made of the arcke of the Lordes testament No man shal thinke vpon it nether shal anye man make mention of it For from thence forth it shall neither be visited nor honoured with giftes Moreouer in the .xxxi. Chapter of the same prophete you shall not alonely reade of resoluyng and repellyng of the olde couenaunt or testamente and the cause therof but also of the substitution of the newe of the descriptiō nature and tenure of the same The new testament prophecied of And the words of the text be these Beholde the daies wyll come saith the Lorde that I wil make a new couenaunte with the house of Israell and wyth the house of Iudah not after the couenaunte whyche I made wyth their fathers whan I toke them by the hande and ledde them oute of the lande of Egypte whiche couenaunt they brake Yea euen whan I as an husbande had rule ouer them sayeth the Lorde But thys shall be the couenaunte that I wyl make with the house of Israell after those dayes sayth the Lorde I wyll plante my lawe in the inner part of them and write it in theyr hertes wyl be theyr god and they shal be my people from thence forth shall no man teach his neighbour or his brother and saye knowe the Lorde but they shall all knowe me from the loweste to the hyeste sayth the Lorde For I wyl forgiue their misdedes and wil neuer remēbre their sinnes any more These testimonies I thyncke shall easilye perswade euerye true christian whyche hath not a verye Iewyshe herte to be certified that as wel the carnall gratifiyng sacrifices required in Moses lawe be as vtterli determined and as clearly abolished as the other pacifiynge sacrifices whom mooste speciallye we treated of hytherto And if the gunne shote of these olde culuerynge pieces and double Cannons haue not sufficientlye ouerthrowen the bulworcke of