WHen Moses would exhort and stir vp the people of Israel to all diligent regard and accomplishment of their Deu. 4. duetie described in the lawe , after breefe rehersall of the great woonders and manifold benefices , wherewith the lord God had both strengthned their wauering faith , and susteyned their mortall liues in that their longe and wandring pilgrimage in the desart : he speaketh as a most effectuall collection to excite them therevnto , putteth downe the continual presence of God , still ready to heare & defend them : with the excellencie and equitie of those there enioyned ordinaunces and lawes , which should be their understanding , their wisedome , and glory among al people . For what nation ( saith he ) is so great vnto whom gods come so neere as the Lorde our God is neere vnto vs in al that we call vnto him for ? Ver. 7.8 . And what Nation is so great that hath ordinances and lawes so righteous as is all this lawe which I set before you this daye . The same argument and reason inferred then as most forcible , to worke obedience in the harts of those olde & stubborne people vnder the lawe , whiche had but a shadow of good things to come , and was onely a Schoolemaister vnto Christ : ought much more to be effectuall among vs in these daies and times of grace , seeing the Lord commeth nearer vnto vs , then he di● vnto them , seeing we enioy the trueth , & body , & substance of those their figuratiue shadowes ; and haue precepts of doctrine ordinaunces and lawes , by so much both more honorable and more profitable and higher then theires ; as they haue receaued a farre more excellent name , and are seales and confirmations of better promises then they had . For to them God cam● neare in fire and lightning in stormes and thunders , and most terrrible manner on the mountaine , to declare his wrath against sin ; But vnto vs in fauor and goodnes , in reconciled loue & bowels of mercie , freely pardoning and remitting our sinnes : vnto them he spake by Angels , and prophets , and appeared by the ministrie of his seruant , by whom he gaue a lawe . But vnto vs by his dearely beloued and onely begotten sonne , by whom he hath giuen grace , & truth : Unto them 〈◊〉 gaue the couenant of bondage , of feare , & 〈◊〉 for a time ; Unto vs the law of libert● 〈◊〉 ●doption , & eternal life for euer . So tha●●he declaration of sin , & commination of p●●●●hmēt to be inflicted by the law , were 〈◊〉 such price , & reuerence among them : much more should the promulgation of grace , and free remission of sinnes , be now acceptable vnto vs ; And if the ministration of condemnation as S. Paule saith , figured in stone were glorious , much more shall the ministration of righteousnesse , by fayth in Iesus Christ exceede in glory . And therfore seeing it is more directly saide and applyed vnto vs Christians now , then it was euer to the Iewes , that the Lord commeth so neere vnto no people as vnto vs ; Neither is there any Nation that hath ordinaunces , and lawes so righteous , so excellent and profitable , as are all those wherein our Christian duetie is limited and described vnto vs ; It is also requisite that we duely consider and regarde the prerogatiue of this our calling , vnto whome God in mercie stooping as it were so lowe , doth discend and come neere : and carefully obserue those his righteous lawes and precepts ▪ whereby wee maie approche and draw ▪ ●eere in all obedience vnto him againe . Both which wee haue heere accordingl● set downe vnto vs , in the scope of this present Scripture , conteining a short abridgement and recapitulation , not onely of this present Epistle to the Hebrues , but euen of all the whole Gospell it selfe , and of all our Christian life and duetie , as wherein the effect and summe of all is contriued and knit vp . Which although it contain matter more copious and plentifull , then can exactly be discussed at one time ; Yet for our better and more orderly proceeding in so large a fielde and compasse , may well be deuided into two generall partes and braunches . First a theoretical position or doctrine of knowledge , respecting our beleefe and faith , as how neere the Lorde in mercie by the reconciliation of his sonne commeth downe vnto vs ; And secondly an application of this doctrine or hortatorie illation to the performaunce of all suche dueties as are answerable thereunto , and requisite to the direction of our conuersation and life . The first againe conteineth chiefely two thinges . First the abrogation of the Iewish Priesthoode , of their dayly sacrifices and legall obseruations and rights : and secondly a confirmation of our finall attonement wrought with God , and redemption by the bloud of Iesus once offered for all vpon the Alter of the Crosse , wherby he hath made perfect for euer those that shall bee saued ; Both which bicause by way of allution or collation , they are here set downe and deliuered in one . I will also so proceede ioyntly to handle them in one , and not deuide them in discourse of my speache . In the second part again to be performed in our behalf , whereby wee shall approche and come neare in obedience vnto God , are required specially three thinges , faith to enter and conduct vs in the way , hope to strengthen and vphold vs to the end , and thirdly loue and charitie to the comfort and encouragement both of our selues and other . Our faith must not be naked or solitarie , but clothed and accompanied with attendaunce of these properties , a true harte and a good conscience , so as both ●ur bodies and mindes maye be sprinckled and washed from all contagion of sin ; our hope must not bee wauering and vnconstant fitting and turning like our earthly affections , after the variable nature of the obiect wheron they are placed , but stedfast and vnmoueable grounded on the faithfull , and vnchaungeable promises of almightie God . And our loue must not be famed , ydle or vnfruitfull in pretence and outwarde showe , but in all points such as is described to quenche all bitternes and discord , and to fructifie and spring forth into all practise and exercise of godlinesse and good woorkes , whereuntoo for conclusion is annexed a forcible motiue the rather to induce vs thereunto , for that the ende it selfe approcheth , and the day draweth neare .

Touching the first parte the Apostle after diuers infallible demonstrations and proofes alleaged to his purpose , throughout his whole Epistle and discourse goeing before , after manie obiections answered , the aduersaries refuted , and the trueth on eache side clearly discussed ; For an Epilogue or summarie conclusion of all his former disputation and doctrine , inferreth this sure collection pitched faste downe for euer as an vnmoueable rocke of trueth : That the bloode of Iesus abolishing all figures rites and ceremonies all shadowes and sacrifices of the Mosaicall Lawe ; hath taken awaie the pertition , the couering , and vayle wherein all Nations were wrapped and hath made free passage & entraunce with boldnes vnto the throne and mercie seate of God , euen vnto vs and vnto al as many as were farre of seperated by our sinnes and sitting in darkenesse and in the shaddowe of death . Which high and heauenly mistery that he might the better and more significantly expresse , as also that we should not thinke those rites and ceremonies of the lawe to haue beene vtterlie vaine and fruitles , but lawfull and profitable in their appointed time and vse , and that yet now by the blood of Iesus shed vpon the Crosse , they haue attained their ful & purposed perfection and scope , and lastly that there should seeme nothing to want in the bodye and fulnesse of the Gospell , which was so greatly in price and honor in their shadows of the law ; he fitly here applyeth them , as figuratiue predictions to our Christian Religion , and furnisheth out a most liuely description of our fayth , with the spoiles , with the titles and prerogatiues wherein they so greatly gloried , and wherewith their holies were adorned . So that though their excellencie were great and their preferment singuler aboue all Nations of the world , as vnto whome the Adoption and the couenance and the law , Rom. 9.4 . and the glorie and the promises then onely apperteined : of whom were the fathers , and of whom as concerning the fl●sh Christ came , who is God ouer all blessed for euer more : Yet if it bee compared whatsoeuer was then so glorious vnder the yoke of Moses lawe , to this incomperable perfection of libertie and prerogatiue of grace in the freedom of the Gospell : it must needes giue place and yeild , as darkenesse to light , as shadowes to the body , as figures to trueth , as weaknes to perfection , and as disposing preparatiue meanes to their finall and prefixed consummation and end . They had a holy place made with handes seperated by pertition and shutte vppe from the rest of the Temple ; but wee haue the highest heauens and celestiall throne of grace , a tabernacle not made with handes , whiche God and not man pight : into their sanctuarie none might enter but the Priestes alone , 1. Pet. 2.9 . but wee all without exception haue free libertie and accesse and are made a holy Priesthoode to offer vp spiritual sacrifice acceptable vnto God by Iesus Christ . They were permitted to enter but once euery yeare , wee euery daye and at all times without restraint or limitation . Their passage and way was made with the blood of manie slayne offeringes of beastes ; but ours by the vndeficient and eternall blood of him that liueth for euer the immaculate Lambe of God : Their high Priest was mortall , compassed with infirmities and sinnes ; but ours is holy , harmelesse , vndefiled , seperated from sinners , and made higher then the heauens . Their Priestes were many still chaunging in succession because they were men ; Ours one and euerlasting abiding for euer because hee is the sonne of God . Their entraunce was by a bodily vaile which made the seperation ; but ours by the reuiued body of Christ which maketh the attonemente and reconciliation . And is therefore moste aptlye called a vaile or couering , beecause as that their materiall vaile hanging downe , did shut vp and couer the secrete place of the Sanctuarie , from the sight of those that were without ; so the humaine body of Christ did hide his diuine nature from the obstinate carnall Iewes , and all those that beleeued not in him ; And as the vayle againe beeing lifted vp made entrance and passage into the holy place which before was shutte and closed ; So Christ ascending vp on high and lifting vp the vaile of his flesh to the right hande of GOD , hath opened the hidden treasures of his mercie , grace , and fauour which before through our sinnes , as a carnall vaile hanging downe , were fast sealed vppe and closed from vs . For as the children of Israell coulde not beholde the shining face of Moses when hee had talked with God on the Mount for the exceeding brightnesse thereof , but couered with a vaile where through they did beholde him ; So no man hath seene GOD at anye tyme or canne beeholde the face and presence of the deytye : Ioh. 1.18 . but so farre as it is both vailed and reuealed by the bodye and humayne fleshe of our Sauioure Christ : Iacob prophesing of Christ which shoulde come of the Tribe of Iuda sayth . Gen. 49.18 . Lauabit in vin● stolam suam . Hee shall washe his garmente in Wine , and his mantle in the bloud of the grape ; Which Prophecie saith Theodoret was truly then fulfilled when our sauiour did shed for vs his most precious blood vpon the Crosse , which issuing aboundantly out of his perced handes and side , did euen washe his body , which was as it were the Mantle ( sayth hee ) and vesture , the vaile and couering of his deitie and godhed . By which & other like applications wee may plainely see it verified which is spoken by S. Augustine , That of all those holy men and Fathers which in time were before the natiuitie of Christe , not onelye their words and speeches but euen their whole liues , their mariages , their children , their deedes and actions , were a prophecie of these our times wherein the Churche by faythe in Christ is gathered of all Nations . And as Iacob ( sayth hee ) when hee shoulde be borne first put forth his hande out of the wombe , after followed the head , and then necessarily the rest of the members and body , but so as the head excelled still both the hande that went before and the body that came after , as from whom they both had their life sence and vitall powers , and which though not in time of appearing , yet in order and dignity of nature and being , was first and before them both : So our Lorde Iesus Christ , before he appeared in the flesh , and came foorth from the wombe of his secrete and eternall Counsell , into the sight of the world a mediatour betweene God and man : reached out in the holy Patriarkes and Prophets , and other his peculier people appointed for that purpose , a certaine parte of his body or hand as a signe and manifest token of his byrth approching . And so both they as the hande that appeared before , and wee as the body that followe after , doe all cleaue and are fastned vnto one heade , whiche is Christe beleeuing in him whome they so prefigured : And whatsoeuer was then darkely hid and shadowed vnder the vaile and couering vnto them , is now fully accomplished , made open and manifest vnto vs : And whatsoeuer speciall priuiledge or prerogatiue , their Temple , their Priesthoode , their vaile and sanctuarie , with all their sacrifices and ceremonies brought to them by tipicall signes and shadowes for a season ; the same with all addition and supplie of incomperable perfection and trueth , is Iesus the sonne of GOD vnchangeable vnto vs for euer . Hee is that seconde Adam which slept as it were in the Sepulcre for a time , vntill his spouse the Church were fashioned out of his side ; he is Abraham the Father of all faithfull whose seede is as the starres of heauen , & as the dust of the earth in number . Hee is that eternall Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech the King of righteousnesse and peace , without Father without Mother or kindred , hauing neither beginning of dayes nor ende of life . He is that patient Isaac which being borne against the course of nature was content at the will of his father to bee bound and sacrified on the Alter of the Crosse , and yet remaineth safe and sounde . Hee is that pitifull Ioseph who was cruellye solde of his brethren , and yet after manifold afflictions beeing aduaunced to the rule of the kingdome , was not ashamed to confesse them , to feed them in time of dearth , and in stead of reuenging the iniuries done vnto him , to aduaunce them to honour & great riches in his kingdome . He is that valiant Iosua leading vs into the lande of promise which Moses could not doe . He is that strong and puissant Sampson who by his death ouerthroweth al his enemies . He is that chosen Dauid who in his strength subdued fearce Goliah , that defied and oppressed the people of God , and yet in his basenesse and humilitie vniustly persecuted of his Enemies , became A worme & no man , A verie skorne of men and contempt of the people , whose hart was as melting waxe within his bowels , and his strength dryed vp as a potsherd , whose handes and feete they pearsed , gaue him viniger and gall to drinke , and cast lottes vpon his garment , who became as a dead man out of minde , and like a broken vessell ; And yet after all these greeuaunces is setled in his kingdome , and his throne established as the sonne for euer . Hee is that wise and glorious Salomon , who ruleth his people with all tranquilitie and peace , who onely was ordeined to builde an house and acceptable Temple vnto God , and vnto whom they shal come from all partes of the earth to heare his wisedome . He is that miraculous Rod of Aaron deuouring the rods or Serpents of the Sorcerers of Egipt , which by smiting the waters gaue passage for his people , through the Sea , and is alwaies greene & flourishing bearing leaues , blossoms , and ripe fruites . He is that healthfull brasen Serpent lift vp vpon the Crosse , to heale the stinges and woundes of the fiery Serpents . He is that spreading Cherubines ouershadowing the Arke and mercie seate of God with his winges . He is that stone which Daniell sawe hewen out of the mountaine without handes of man , and filled the whole earth with the compasse thereof . He is that Ladder that Iacob sawe reaching betweene heauen & earth , with Angels ascending and descending , as by whom God in mercy commeth downe vnto vs on earth , and we by fayth ascende and drawe neare vnto him in heauen . He is the waie , the truth , and the life . He is Alpha and Omega the first and the last , the beginning and end of al , of whom , through whome , and for whome , are all thinges , and besides him there is no Sauiour , who was , and is , and is to come , the almightie for euer , the holye and true , who is made vnto vs of God , our wisedome , our sanctification , our iustification & redemption , who alone hath troden the winepresse of Gods wrath , & washed our soules in the blood of his Crosse , who alone hath broken the yoke of our burden and the staffe of our shoulder , and the rod of our oppressor as in the day of Madian . Who alone hath borne our rebukes in his bosome , & our infirmities in his bodie , & hath healed our woundes with his owne stripes , who made himselfe an offering for sin & gaue his soule a redemtion for many , that by the grace of god he might taste of death for a● , & so reconcile both in one bodye vnto God by his crosse slaying hatred therby , & making peace both in heauen & in earth that he might abolish the hand writing that was against vs in the law of commandements ; that he might take away the vaile & pertition wall wherby we were separated & shut of : and so gather together in one that dispersed sonnes of God , vnto whom he hath prepared , a new & lyuing way into the holy place of grace & forgiuenes of sinnes , by offring vp himself , and shedding of his owne most innocent and precious blood . And thus is Christe become , the trueth of all figures and the bodye of all shaddowes , and the scoape and substaunce of all the Lawe and the Prophetes : who ending at Iohn Baptist seemed visiblye to acknowledge the same in the persons of Moses & Elias , when talking with Christ at his transfiguration in the hearing of the Apostles Peter and Iohn God the father gaue testimonie thereto from heauen saying This is my deare sonne in whom I am well pleased , heare him . Teaching thereby that both the legall rites and oracles of the Prophets , had now accomplished their purpose and prefixed ende in Christ , whome onely they as witnesses and messengers of trueth , were thence forth to preache and publish to the world . And therefore both praise and glorie and honor and maiesty and powre and might , R●uel . 5.9.10.12.13 . be ascribed vnto him that sitteth vpon the throne , and vnto the Lambe for euer more because he was killed and hath redeemed vs vnto God by his blood , out of euerie Nation and kindred and tongue and people of the earth : because he hath loued vs and washed vs from our sinnes in his blood , and hath made vs kings and priests vnto our God , and wee shall raigne with him for euer , and here in haue we libertie and boldnes to enter in the holy place .

This is here called not simply a passage a meane or way into the holy place , but a new way and a liuing way , a newe way , not in respect of the time of making , but for the most absolute perfection and vnchaungeable continuance thereof ; not as though there were a time when it was not , but because there neuer shall be time wherin it shal not be . For although it were published and reuealed in the latter times , yet was it ordeined before all times . It is called new , not as lately ordeined and prepared of God , but because it was new and straunge and scarcely knowne vnto men ; not as though there were another way , into the holy place before it , but because there neuer shall bee any succeeding after it . So likewise it is called a liuing way , because it is opposed to the olde and dead waie of the lawe : which by reason of the weakenes and imperfection thereof , is worne out and vanished ; Because it surelye leadeth vs to immortalitie & life , Because it is dedicated and prepared by the liuing body of Christ , and not by the dead carkasses and offeringes in the lawe ; and because it admitteth none , that lye dead and sencel●sse in their sinnes , but such as are quickened in Christ and are aliue vnto righteousnes by the spirite of God . Nowe then if the blood of Iesus ( as here the holye Ghoste taught vs , ) be the new way , be the liuing way , be the onely way into the holy place , into the kingdome of heauen , which not we can prepare for our selues , but Christ hath prepared for vs , through the vaile of his owne fleshe : And therefore , suche a waye , as admitteth neither succession , nor perfection , nor supplye , nor myxture , nor fellowship of any other , what shall wee thinke of those men , that yet seeke them by wandring pathes of error and would rather returne into Egypt by the olde Traditions of men , 〈…〉 and deserts of their inuentions , then enter into the Sanctuarie into the holy place of rest , by this new and liuing way here taught vs , the blood of Iesus ? Or what other can we iudge of those their Monasticall vowes and orders , of their new found out fraternities , distinctions and degrees ; of their wilfull and voluntarie seruices , not required at their handes ; of their dayly and propiciatorie sacrifices , auaileable both for quicke and dead ; of their preparatiue meritorious , satisfactory , redemptory , and supererogatory works ; of their merits of congruity , equalitie and condignitie ; of their proper and inherent iustifiing righteousnes ; of their ignorant prayers , and superstitious inuocations , mediations intercessions of Saints , shrines , and Images , with other like erroneous supplements of mans deuising , set forth and still with confidente asseuerance auouched , as the best and onely way into the holy place with out the which there is no entraunce there is no passage ? What I say can we iudge of them euen by the directe rule and doctrine of this place , without digression , but that they are meerely derogatorie and iniurious to the bloode of our Sauiour Iesus : And so consequently the way of sinners ( wherein he is blessed that hath not walked ) and that darke and slipperie waye wherein they stumble and fall backwarde and are broken , Esai , 28.13 . and are snared , and are taken as Esai saythe . For if an other waye maye bee founde out after it into the holye place , then is not the bloode of Iesus the newe way : it is not a liuing waye if it fade or bee decayed in his former strength and nature , and nowe needeth further supplye and ayde , neyther yet the waye into the holy place , if it doe but helpe and enter vs at the first , & leaue vs to our own free will , to our own direction , or any other meanes , before wee attaine the end . But they accuse our doctrine , because say they it is new , and glory in their owne deuises as though they were very olde , wherein to aunswere breefely both ●auils , they craftily deale with vs in deede , according to that olde practise of the subtle Gib●onites : who to make a league with Iosua , tooke olde s●ckes & olde bottles for their iourney , Iosua . 9.4.5 . and olde torne raiment on their backes , and al their prouision of bread and victuals very old and drie , so faining themselues Ambassadours from far Countreis : In like sorte , but to a contrarie ende , the Papistes still hold out and shew vnto vs like Gorgons head to fray men with the sight , a pretext or painted Image of hoare and vncontrollable antiquitie , they will prescribe against Iosua by possession of the lande before him , they would seeme to come from farre , they would be of the Aboregines without any beginning , or from the beginning it self . And al things that they vse and maintaine amongest them , are olde they beare vs in hande and very auntient . But as the deceitfull Gibeonits being tried out were not the men they seemed , but were neighbours and borderers vnto Iosua ; So these haue nothing lesse then the age and antiquitie they would challenge to themselues , as doth plainly appeare by relation of their owne histories , in the institution and ordinaunce of euery seuerall thing . And therefore as Ieroboams wife though shee muffled and disguised her face and countenaunce , yet the Prophet could descerne her so soone as she began to speake . 1. Reg , 14.6 . So though they muffle & disguise and new attire both themselues and their errours with straunge and vnwonted garmentes , yet so soone as they come neare to speake and declare their message , they are found but the wife or darling of an Idolatrous husbande , seeking vnrecouerable health , for their dying and vncurable childe : they are found but false and subttile Gibeonits pretending that they are not ; and apples of Gomorha which as S. Augustine saith seeme faire and beautifull to the eye , Aug. de Ciuit. dei l●b. 21 cap. 5. but if you touche them with the finger they fall to dust and cinders . True it is that Sainte Basil sayeth to Amphiloctius . Persuasiua sunt quodamodo vetera dogmata velut an antiquitate canitie quadam reuerendum quiddam habentia . Cap. 29. Olde Religion & opinions are verie apt to perswade men , as hauing in antiquitie somewhat to be reuerenced for the graie heares thereof ; But herein againe is required wisedome and as much wisedome in these our euill daies as had Salomon in finding out the doubted mother of the childe . For truth many times is accused of noueltie , and errour lyeth hid vnder the tytle of age : For so the Gentiles , saith Lactant. assaulted the Christians faith with this rampire . And Symachus the sworne Enimie to Christ as saith Prudentius stoode much vpon this reason . Pru. lib. 2. And Cresconius against Sainct Augustine was armed with this buckler . This ( sayth he ) is auntient , our fathers receaued it of their fathers ; True saith Sainct Augustine Sed errantes ab errantibus . As the Iewes receaue by tradition of their fathers , that the body of Christ was stolen out of the sepulcre , which beeing false at the beginning , continuaunce of time cannot make it true . Our waye our religion and doctrine ( say they ) is very old and auntient and therefore to bee preferred , this cloake and coulour , & this their vsurped reason , had likewise the Gebeonites , the Iewes , the Gentiles . Cresconius , Symachus , Demetrius the Siluer smith , the town ●larke of Ephesus , and generally all infidels against the Christian faith : but most vntruly auouched . But yours say they is strange lately sprunge vp , and newe ; So sayde the Athenians to Sainte Paule calling him a bringer of newe Diuels , Act. 17.18 . and may we not knowe what this newe doctrine is whereof thou speakest , yea it is newe saye they , and therefore to bee reiected : Their illation is false , and their premesses eyther erroniously collected or maliciouslie peruerted or both : as doth plainely appeare euen by this place ; For first the entraunce and passage into the holy place by the blood of Iesus , which we onely hold and professe is here called a new way , but this way or doctrine is not to be reiected . And therefore the new way euen our way is not to be reiected . Then our doctrine & religion we graunt is new not after their scoffing & blasphemous meaning : But according to sence of this presente Scripture : Because it is the clensing of our soules , by the vnwasted bloode of Iesus , which neuer waxeth old but is alwaies fresh and flourishing ; because thereby wee are renewed into a new man ; and doe become new creatures in Christ Iesus ; And as a man in traueling calleth it a newe waye which he neuer went before , though the way it selfe be of long continuaunce and knowne of olde : Euen so maye this our waie and doctrine be well called newe , not as though it were not before theirs which they count so olde and is not . But because that men through the mistie cloudes of their errours and abuses , neither so generallie nor so perfectly did know , or traced it before ; And so it is new not by institution as latelie deuised and found out , but by restauration , by publishing and promulgation Quo ad nos , as nowe more fullye preached , better knowne and more commonlye vsed and frequented then before . So that all then is not to bee beleeued which commeth in the name of olde , nor all to bee refused which is called and accounted newe : And neither is their antiquity or rather intrusion of error such as can prescribe against the right , though intermitted title of truth ; neither our obiected nouelty such as iustly ought to hinder or preiudice the same . For it is knowne and it is true that is ●aide by Tertull. Quodcunque aduersus ●eritatem sapit haeresis est , Pr●scripe aduers haeret . etiam vetus con●uetudo . Whatsoeuer fauoureth against ●ruthe is heresie though it bee an olde cu●tome . And as Ciprian saith , Ad Pom. pei : contra Epi. Steph. Consuetudo sine veritate vetustas erroris est , Ideoque re●icto errore sequamur veritatem ; Custome without trueth is but auncientnes of error , and therefore leauing error let vs followe the truth . That so and by a newe liuing way we may enter with boldenesse into the holye place . Manie are the abuses they couer with this cloake of age , to beguile vnstable soules euen in flatte and expresse tearmes defacing the bloode of Christe . They say in their ceremonial describing the properties of their Agnus Dei , Peccatum quodque malignum diluit vt sanguis Christi . It washeth awaie al euill sinne as the blood of Christ . Of their dayly and vnbloody sacrifice ( as they tearme it ) Peccatum frangit vt Christi sauguis et angit . It breaketh and greeueth sinne as the blood of Christ : In their inuocations and prayers they say : Tu per Thomae sanguinem , quem pro te impendit , Fac nos Christe scandere quo Thomas ascendit .