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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

them then can have the honour of the priesthood to obtaine pardon of sinnes for the Church that glory and power being reserved onely to the Sonne who is farre aboue principallities and powers Such a priest as this must bring vs that are base and sinfull wretches unto God in him we must be sanctified in him we must obtaine favour in him we must be heard that is so high in favour that no request can be denied him In him we must be saved who hath received all power and authority both in heaven earth and liveth for ever What fouler beastlinesse then can there be than this that sinfull unholy and base wormes of the earth should challenge unto themselues to be Priestes of the New Testament yea that such filly Asses as are scarce fit to keepe swine will yet have that office that the glorie honor and power of is aboue the Angels let all men judge now of this conclusion The Priests of the New Testament is pure and holy separated from sinners made higher than the heavens The POPE and all his broode are sinfull whoremongers theeues and murtherers base and vile wretches of the earth farre off from being higher then the heavens Therefore their priesthood is not the priesthood of the New Testament There is also another notable difference betweene the old priesthood and the newe that those former did minister in earth in a Tabernacle made wi h hands which had no enduring substance This latter is entred into the Sanctuarie of Heaven and there doth execute the Priests office he doth not any thing in an earthly sanctuarie For why His Priesthood is heavenly and eternall his Tabernacle must be agreeable unto the same And it is said that if he were one eareh he could not be a Priest wh●le those Priestes did stand which were after the Law Heb. 8. 4. For although our Lord were a Priest indeed when he was vpon earth and did offer the sacrifice of his body yet ye see there was no outward thing that the Priests vpon earth doe His body was slaine upon earth but was it caried into the Temple and slaine at the Altar Was the blood sprinkled before the Arke of the covenant No all things were heavenly and spirituall in this sacrifice If we regard the substance of his body it was the same that ours is But yet all the vertue and efficacy of the same when it was a slaine sacrifice was from aboue And so though he were in earth yet the whole fruite of his worke was in heaven For he being both God and man was a Priest even then in heaven when he was slaine upon earth The vertue and power of the sacrifice to purge away sinne was not of the manhood from it selfe but the manhood had it from the Godhead in that the manhood was so united unto the godhead that they made one person In this sense he saith Iohn 6. ver 63. It is the spirit that qu ckeneth the flesh profiteth nothing Howsoever the flesh of Christ hath power in it to give life as in deede it is the bread of life and whosoever doeth eate of it shall live for ever yet it hath not this life of it selfe but from the Godhead Likewise the bloud is able to purge away sinne because it is the bloud of a man which is also God It is also said 1. Cor. 15. The first man was of the earth earthly The second m●n was the Lord from heaven heavenly Wherefore is he called a man from heaven heavenly was it because his flesh was from heaven cursed be he which so holdeth No it was because all the vertue and efficacy which was in his manhood to redeeme the world was from heaven We see then that he being sacrificed in earth the efficacy of his Priesthood was in heaven There is nothing in his Priesthood nor in the execution thereof which is earthly But these priests are altogether earth and what can they doe without earth A Temple they must have on earth an Altar of earth many other things of earth which proove that all their ministery and function is earthy Then to ●…rists Priest●…od is heaven●… conclude the Mediator of the New Testament is not a Priest upon earth nor executeth not the Priests office but in the heavenly Tabernacle The Romanes are Priests upon earth they minister with earthly things in earthly Tabernacles and upon Altars consecrated to that purpose Who doth not see therefore that they have no affinity at all with Christ Moreover if it may be demaunded is sir Iohn a King Surely then have there beene many lousie Kings Every one which is a Priest after the order of Melchisedech is a King for those two are joyned together in his order the kingdome and the priest hood Is there any man so foolish as to take these to be kings They may be taken for priests but not after the order of Melchisedech so long as they have but shaven crownes and not crownes of gold nor after the order of Aaron which is ceased but after the order of the priests of Baal If they object that the Pope hath both swords the spirituall and the civill and therefore he is a King and a Priest I answere that therein he is more unlike Christ whose kingdome is not of this world The kingdome of Christ is spirituall he medled not with the civill sword but lef● it to the Magistrate The Pope chalenging it is not of that order which Christ is One Priest of ●he New Testament Seing then as we have prooved none can be partakers with Christ in the most high digniry and honour of the Priesthood seing every Priest is a mediatour of a Testament and of the New Testament there is but one seeing none can have that honour to be Priest but they which are called of God and the Papistes can shew no calling nor consecrating of Priestes in the New Testament Seeing in the order of Melchisedech all things are spirituall and full of endlesse power in the order of Popery all things carnall Melchisedech continueth for ever these die Seeing also the Priest of the New Testament must be perfectly holy and pure without spot of sinne and higher than the heavens the Popish pries●… are not of G●… Popish Priests are abominable sinners Christ is a Priest in heaven they upon earth He is both a King and a Priest sir Iohn is not a king It doth follow that their order of Priesthood is not of God but they be the idolatrous priestes of Antichrist They cannot by their ministry and Priesthood bring men unto God but contrariwise they carry headlong unto the divell Such therefore as will save their soules must not be blind and wilfull but open their eyes and behold the claere and manifest truth of God which he hath taught in his word As we have proved this one part so let us now come to the other that is to shew that the sacrifice which they offer is not the sonne

is also carnall For was the oyle upon Aaron carnall and is not their annointing and sh●ving carnall Were all the ministring garments of Aaron carnall and are not their vestments as the Cope the Surplesse the Note this Amisse and other such holy and priestly robes carnall Was the Altar in the Temple carnall and all the ministring vessells that did belong thereto and are not the Altars of these carnall Were Aarons incense and oblations carnall and are not the oblations of these and all their incense and other things carnall Those former could not stand with the Priesthood of the new Testament because they were in substance carnall how then shall these latter which are as carnall as they Tell us O ye Baalamites of the Romish order wherefore your order should in any respect be called the order of Melchisedech seeing it is as contrary unto it as was that of Aaron The order of Melchisedech is gathered out of the description of Moses to be without any annoynting with oyle without garments for the ministration without Tabernacle without Altar without sacrifice without any earthly thing And why because his order is spirituall and therefore all things thereto belonging must be spirituall it is eternall and full of endles power and therefore nothing which appertaineth to the execution thereof must be transitory and weake For shall an earthly Temple an Altar of stone garments of silke or of any corruptible thing be fit to be joyned with that pristhood which is everlasting There is no doubt but that every thing for the execution of the office must be agreable unto the nature of the Priesthood it selfe and therefore as there is nothing mentioned in Melchisedech that is carnall so also we see that our Lord Iesus Christ a Priest after that order hath executed that function without any such things consecrated therunto How shall the Papists then which have their priesthood executed altogether in such things as be transitory challenge to be of that order with our Saviour wherein as the Priesthood is heavenly and eternall so are all things thereto belonging But peradventure ye will say Melchisedech was a Priest he offred sacrifice to God as other priests at that time Wherfore should it then be gathered that there was no carnal thing in substāce belonging to the execution of his function He had an Altar he had beasts to offer and no doubt did offer I Answere that albeit Melchisedech did execute the priests office after the manner of other priests yet that is nothing to the purpose For the order of his priesthood is gathered out of that description of Moses in which there is no mention of such things We are not to doubt but that he had father and mother that he was borne as an other man and also had an end of his dayes Neverthel sse because those things are left out he is brought in as one which never had beginning and that never had end but continueth a priest for ever In like sort howsoever at any time he executed the office of a priest as others did yet because there is no such thing expressed and that which is expressed is that wherein he is likened unto the Sonne of God it is said that he was a priest after another order and that there was nothing carnall in his p iesthood Therefore we are to conclude that the priesthood of the new testament having nothing in it that is carnall the priesthood of the papacy being and consisting altogether of things carnall and such as were also the inventions of men it must needes follow that they are not priests of any testament of God but he priests of Antichrist Further let it be considered that a priest must arise after the order of Melchisedech that shall so continue for ever For the eternall Sonne of God was resembled by Melchisedech in that he is brought in without any beginning The continuance also of his office for ever in that there is nothing said of his death nor of any that did succeede him This then being manifest what impudent wretches are those which being mortall men that have an end dare so blasphemously boast that they be Priests after the order of Melchisedech how shall they ever be able to answere unto this The Priest of the new Testament is after the order of Melchisedech that is to say a Priest for ever without beginning without end without any to succeede him Their priesthood hath a beginning it hath an end they have those that do succeed one after another If this be a materiall poynt in that order of priesthood which Christ should be after as none unlesse his forehead be of brasse dare deny that it should be for ever What a childishnes were it for any man to thinke that the priesthood of the papacy is the same when it doth faile in that which is essentiall For they dye and come to an ende Are not these contrary the one to the other to continue a priest for ever as Melchisedech in figure and Christ indeed and to be priests for certaine yeares and then to cease by reason of death Are not then the priests made at Rome contrary to this order yea as contrary as light is unto darkenesse or as heaven is unto hell And must it not still follow that seeing they be no priests of the old Testament nor can not be priests of the New unto the which their order is contrary that their priesthood may be as good as the priesthood of Baal and better it cannot be For if it be not of God is it not then of the Divell Let all true Christians therefore behold with detestation this hellish sacriledge of the Romish bishop who being a priest after the divells order yet saieth he is after the order of Melchisedech Moreover it is to be noted which the holy Ghost sayeth Heb. 7. ver 26. that such an high priest it became us to have as was holy harmelesse unspotted separate from sinnes and made higher than the heavens This setteth foorth the purity and also the high dignity which of necessity are required in that priest that shall deale in our cause to bring us to God For if he were a sinner himselfe how should he come unto God If he were spotted with any uncleannes how should he purchase favour for others seeing he should himselfe be out of favour If he were unholy how should he sanctify and make holy those whom he doth present unto God In like sort it is to be weighed how great that man must be of necessity that is to enter ever unto the thron● of glory and there abide as one able to save all that come unto God by him For thus he must be made higher than the heavens and aboue all creatures in the heavens For albeit the holy and blessed angels be separate from sinners and be also about the throne of God yet none of them hath this glory to be made higher than the heavens none of