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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07799	A catholike appeale for Protestants, out of the confessions of the Romane doctors particularly answering the mis-named Catholike apologie for the Romane faith, out of the Protestants: manifesting the antiquitie of our religion, and satisfying all scrupulous obiections which haue bene vrged against it. Written by Th. Morton Doctor of Diuinitie.	Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.	1609 (1609)	STC 18176; ESTC S115095	584,219	660

be no Answer to say as Pope Leo in effect did viz. that as Priests you are not as were the Leviticall by naturall propagation but by a spirituall ordination because a spirituall Propagation is no proper but a metaphoricall Generation Fifthly not without Succession seeing that Succession as from Saint Peter is the chiefe tenure of your Priest-hood Nor will that of Epiphanius helpe you in this Case to say that You had no Succession by the seed of Aaron because although this may exempt you from the Leviticall Priest-hood yet will not it associate you with the Priest-hood of Melchizedech or of Christ whose Characters of Priest-hood was to be Priests soly individually and absolutely in themselves As little can your ordinary Answer availe telling us that you are not Successors but Vicars of Christ and Successors of Peter because whilest you claime that the Visible Priest-hood and Sacrifice of Christ is still in the Church which is perpetuated by Succession you must bid farewell to the Priest-hood of Melchizedech But if indeed you disclaime all Succession of Christ why is your Iesuit licensed to say that your Roman Popes doe succeed Christ in their Pastorship over the Church although not in their Priest-hood by offering Sacrifices expiating sinnes by their owne virtue Are not the titles of Pastor and Priest equally transcendent in Christ Sixthly not in respect of the no-necessity of a Succession which was Immortality because the Popes shewed themselves to be sufficiently mortall insomuch that one Pope maligning another after death hath dragged the Carcasse of his Predecessor out of his Grave to omit their other like barbarous outrages Seventhly not Personall Sanctity Holy impolluted and separated from sinnes For whosoever being meerely man shall arrogate to himselfe to be without sinne the holy Ghost will give him the Lie As for your Popes we wish you to make choice of whatsoever Historians you please and we doubt not but you shall finde upon record that many of them are noted to have beene as impious and mischievous in their lives and in their deaths as infamous and cursed as they were contrarily Bonifaces Innocents or Benedicts in their names Can there be then any Analogie betweene your high Roman Priest and Christ the Prototype to Melchizedech in so manifold Repugnances Yet notwithstanding every one of you must be forsooth a Priest after the order of Melchizedeck Nay but not to multiply many words the Novelty of your Pretence doth bewray it selfe from Peter Lombard Master of the Romish Schoole who Anno 1145. taught how truly looke you to that that every Priest at his Ordination in taking the Chalice with wine and platter with the Hoast should understand that his power of sacrificing was from The order of Aaron Nor may you thinke that this was his private opinion for He saith your Cardinall of him collected the sentences of Divines and deserved to be called the Master of Schoolmen Thus farre of the Person of Christ as Priest in the next place we are to enquire into his Priestly function Of the Function of Christ his Priest-hood now after his Ascension into Heaven and your Cardinall his Doctrine sacrilegiously detracting from it SECT VII BY the doctrine of your Cardinall in the name of your Church The old Priest-hood of Aaron was translated into the Priest-hood of Christ Every Priest saith the Apostle must have some thing to offer else he were no Priest Thus his Priest-hood is called Eternall and must have a perpetuall offering which was not that upon the Crosse Nor can that suffice which the Protestants say That his Preist-hood is perpetuall because of the perpetuall virtue of his sacrifice upon the Crosse or because of his perpetuall Act of Intercession as Priest in Heaven or of presenting his passion to his Father in Heaven whither his Priest-hood was translated No but it is certaine that Christ cannot now properly sacrifice by himselfe He doth it by his Ministers in the Eucharist Because the sacrifice of the Crosse in respect of Christians is now invisible and seene onely by Faith which although it be a more true sacrifice yet it is not as our Adversaries say the onely sacrifice of Christian Religion nor sufficient for the Conservation thereof And againe His sacrificing of himselfe in the Sacrament by his Ministers is that by which only ●e is said to have a perpetuall Priest-hood Accordingly your Cardinall Alan Christ saith he performeth no Priestly function in Heaven but with relation to our Ministery here on earth whereby he offereth So they for the dignifying of their Romish Masse as did also your Rhemists but with what Ecclipse of Iudgement and good Conscience is now to be declared If we take the Sacrifice of Christ for the proper Act of Sacrificing which is destructive so was Christ his Sacrifice but One and Once Heb. 7. and 8. But understanding it as the subject matter of the same Sacrifice once so offered to God upon the Crosse and after his Ascension entred into Heaven and so is it a perpetuall Sacrifice presentative before God For as the high-Priest of the Law after the Sacrifice was killed entred into the holy place once a yeare but not without Blood Heb. 9. 7. so Christ having purchased an eternall redemption by his Death upon the Crosse went into the holy place of Heaven with the same his owne blood V. 12. To what end Alwaies living to make supplication for us Ch. 7. V. 3. and 25. Hence followeth the continuall use which the soules of the faithfull have of his immediate function in Heaven Having a perpetuall Priest-hood he is able continually to save them that come to God by him V. 24 25. Whence issueth our boldnesse and all-confidence alwaies to addresse our prayers to him or by him unto God We having an high Priest over the house of God let us draw neare with a true heart infull assurance of faith having our hearts sprinckled from an evill Conscience Ch. 10. 22. The evidence of these Scriptures hath drawne from your Iesuit Ribera even then when he professeth himselfe an earnest defender of your Romane Masse these Acknowledgements following viz. upon the Ch. 7. 23. That Christ is a true Priest and all other doe partake of his Priest-hood in offering sacrifice onely in remembrance of his Sacrifice And that he did not performe the office of Priest-hood onely upon earth but even now also in heaven which function he now dischargeth by the virtue of his Sacrifice upon the Crosse He proceedeth No man saith he will deny this Position namely that Christ now ever exercizeth the office of a Priest by presenting himselfe for us So he This is still Christ's function of Priest-hood whereunto this Apostle exhorteth all Christians at all times of need to make their addresse which Saint Iohn propoundeth as the only Anchor-hold of Faith in his Propitiation 1. Iohn 2. If any sinne we have an Advocate with