Wherin sacrificing and Massinge Preisthood , Preists , and the sacrifice of Masse , are proued by learned Protestants , and other testimonies , from the history of Melchisedech . Gen. 14. THE I. CHAPTER .

SO vndoubted a veritie , and necessary a thinge it was , for our blessed Sauiour cominge into the worlde , to perfect the Lawe of Moyses , and euacuate the externall , vnperfect preisthood , sacrifices , and ceremonials thereof , and to institute and ordeine a sacrifice , and preisthood more perfect and independant , to continue for euer , as his lawe and Religion is to doe , and to geue a most sure , and timely warning and notice of this to the world , that when God had made the first promise of the Messias vnto Abraham , in the 12. and 13. chapter of Genesis , in the very next the 14. chapter following , hee reuealed by the preisthood and sacrifice of Melchisedech longe before either the lawe , preisthood , or the sacrifices thereof were deliuered to Moises , what the euerduringe preisthood , and sacrifice of the Messias , and his lawe should bee . For so both the Prophet Dauid , S. Paule to the Hebrues , S. Peter in the canon of the holy Masse , being Author therof , as shall bee proued hereafter , the auncient Rabines before Christ , as protestants them selues acknowledge , so likewise by their warrant , the most auncient and holy Fathers of the Church of Christ , doe proue their preisthood , and sacrifice of Christ , and his sacrificinge preists , in the lawe of the Ghospell , from the wordes of Moises : these be our english protestants translation .

2. Melchisedech Kinge of Salem , brought forth bread and wine : and hee was the preist of the most high God . The greeke readinge , is : For hee was the preist of the most high God : signifying thereby , that hee did the preistly sacrificall office , with that breade and wine : and although in the hebrue the verbe Hotzi , which our protestants translate , brought forth , ordinarily where it is not otherwise limited and restricted , hath that signification , yet beeing confined as here it is , to the office of a sacrificing preist , such as Melchisedech was , it must bee appropriated to his office of sacrificinge , otherwise the reason which the scripture maketh . because hee was a preist , is superfluous . And the rather in this case , because in the hebrue text , this bringinge forth of breade and wine by this extraordinary preist , hath relation vnto God ; and so must needes bee a sacrificall action : for the bringinge forth of bread and wine , or matter of any sacrifice to God , by a preist that is a sacrificer , must needes bee a sacrifice . The hebrue is thus : Melchisedech Kinge of Salem brought forth breade and wine , hee beeing a preist , to God the most highe . The name God here in Hebrue Leeb , beeing the datiue case , and answeringe the production of the breade and wine , and not the word preist , for otherwise it would not bee true construction in that language , the particle le there seruinge to the datiue , and not genitiue case . And therfore , as Franciscus Stancarus that great protestant professor of hebrue , and others tell vs , Rabbi Samuel vppon this place of Genesis , doth thus expound it : actus Sacerdotij tradidit : erat enim ipse sacrificans panem & vinum Deo sancto & benedicto . Hee deliuered the acts of preisthood , for hee was sacrificing bread and wine to God holie and blessed . Where hee plainely expoundeth it , as I did before , referring the bringing forth of the bread and wine by Melchisedech the preist , to God holy and blessed . Which is more plaine by the words immediatlie following in the hebrue : veicbarechehu and hee blessed him : That is to say , hee blessed or praysed God , of whome the immediate laste speach was . Rabb . Samul . in cap. 14. Geness . Francisc . Stancar . in l. 10. de art. fid. Petr. Galat. ibid. c. 6. & alij .

3. So that a preist that vsed to sacrifice , beeing proued by the original text of scripture to haue offered or brought forth bread and wine to God the most high and blessed , and praised him , must needes bee said as the Rabbine expoundeth it , to haue sacrificed bread and wine vnto him . So doe the holy fathers : panem & vinum obtulit : Melchisedech offered bread and wine : saith S. Cyprian , the old Roman Masse and S. Ambrose : Quod tibi obtulit summus Sacerdos Melchisedech : The high preist Melchisedech offered sacrifice to God . S. Hierome saith : In Typo Christi panem & vinum obtulit , & mysterium Christianum in Saluatoris corpore & sanguine dedicauit . In figure of Christ , hee offered bread and wine , and dedicated the Christian mystery , in the body and blood of our Sauiour . So S. Augustine , S. Leo , Arnobius , Eucherius , Primasius , Eusebius Caesariensis , Theodoretus and others of the primatiue church , both greeke and latine . Cyprian . epist . 63. Miss. Rom in can . Ambros . l. 4. de Sacram. c. 6. l. 5. c. 1. ad cap. 5. ad Hebr. Hierom. epistol. 17. ad Marcell . c. 2. in quaest. in Gen. in psal. 75 109. ad cap 26. Math. August . in psal. 33. de cia●…tat Dei . l. 6. c. 22. epist. 95. Arnob. Rom. in psal. 109 Leo serm. 2. anni vers . Assumpt Eucherius Lugd. homil. 5. de Pasch. Primas . in c. 5. ad Hebr. Theodoret. quaest. 63. in Genes. & ad psalm . 109. Protest . Articl . of Relig. articul . 7. scriptures .

4. And except wee will say there was a tradition of so great a mistery and necessarie to saluation ( which the Religion of our english protestants denieth ) or that the Prophet Dauid had some new particular reuelation of this thing , which though it should bee gratis spoken by protestants , doth inuinciblie confirme what hath bene said of this matter ; wee must needes graunt that this holy prophet , did expound and vnderstand that action of Melchisedech , as so many authorities remembred did , for hee maketh it a thinge so certaine , that hee bringeth in God him selfe testifyinge by oath , that it was so : Thus by protestantes translation hee speaketh of Christs preisthood and consequently sacrifice , from this place : The Lord hath sworne and will not repent , thou art a preist for euer : after the order of Melchisedech . ( psal. 109. or 110. vers. 4. ) For wee doe not reade in any other passage of scripture , before Dauids time but in that place of Genesis , what the order , preisthood , or sacrifice of Melchisedech was . The same is testified by S. Paule the Apostle to the Hebrues . ( Hebr. 5.6 . & 7.17 . ) And all learned texts Hebrue , Chaldy , Greeke and Latine agree ; onely the Hebrue maketh it plaine , that God had made such a promise to Melchisedech , that Christ should bee a preist after his order for euer .

5. For where our English protestantes takinge vppon them to translate and followe the Hebrue , and as before translate : Thou art a preist for euer after the order of Melchisedech : The Hebrue is : Our Lord hath sworne , and will according to my word , or , as I promised to Melchisedech . Hal dibrati Malchisedech . Where wee cannot without corrupting the Hebrue dibrati , takinge the last letter away reade otherwise . Therefore seing S. Paul plainely saith , that Christ was a preist after the order or maner of Melchisedech : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 repeating it in diuers places : And the Prophet Dauid saith , that God swore it , and so promised to Melchisedech : wee must needes beleeue that Christs preisthood and sacrifice , after this order to continue for euer is vndeniably testified and expressed in that place of Genesis , and act of Melchisedech . Which , to leaue S. Paul vntill I come to the new testament , is proued by the greatest protestants that euer were .

6. Luther vppon that place alleaged by Dauid . ( in psalm . 110. Tom. 8. ) saith : Melchisedech Rex erat , & Sacerdos , obtulit panem & vinum , pro Patriarcha Abraham & eius familia . Quid est vero oblatio panis & vini pro Abrahamo ? Hoc exprimit Sacerdotium Christi ab hoc tempore vsque ad finem mundi , quo mysterium altaris Sacramentum pretiosi corporis & sanguinis sui offert Ecclesia . Melchisedech was a Kinge and Preist , hee offered bread and wine for Abraham , and his family . What doth the offeringe of bread and wine for Abraham meane ? This doth expresse the preisthood of Christ from this time to the end of the world , in which the church doth offer the mistical Sacrament of his pretious body and blood . Philip Melancthon in concil . Theolog. part. 2. pag. 373. saith : Excipit Melchisedech redeuntem ex praelio Abraham , & eum ad sacrificium admittit , eique benedicit . Melchisedech receaueth Abraham returninge from battaile , and admitteth him to sacrifice , and blesseth him . Caluine diuers times confesseth . in c. 7. ad Hebr. vers. 9. pag. 924. That this was the opinion of the old Fathers , and hee plainely saith . Veteres Ecclesiae Doctores in hac opinione fuerent , vt in oblationem panis & vini insisterunt , sic autem loquuntur . Christus Sacerdos est secundum ordinem Melchisedech , atqui panem & vinum Melchisedech obtulit , ergo panis & vini sacrificium Sacerdotio Christi conuenit . The auncient Fathers were in this opinion , that they insisted in the oblation of bread and wine , for so they speake , Christ is a preist after the order of Melchisedech , but Melchisedech did offer breade and wine , therefore the sacrifice of bread and wine agreeth to the preisthood of Christ .

7. The godly and learned man , as Master Doctor Sutcliffe calleth Andreas Crastouius the Caluinist . ( l. 5. de Miss. papist . c. 26. Andr. Crasteuius l. de opific. miss. 1. sect. 66. ) saith : wee may not reiect the consent and harmony of the auncient Fathers , both for their nearenes to the Apostles age , and the singular agreement of them al together : yet he addeth : hic omnium veluti conspiratione oblatio Melchisedechi sacra proponitur , vt non tantum Abrahae militibusque , sed etiam Deo incruentum sacrificium simboli●…è oblatum videatur . Here as it were with consent of all , the holy oblation of Melchisedech is proposed ; that it was not onely to Abraham and his souldiers , but that it seemeth to haue beene an vnbloody sacrifice simbolically offered also to God . Theodor Bibliander a learned protestant . ( l. 2. de Trinit. pag. 89. ) writeth : erat apud veteres Hebraeos dogma receptissimum , in aduentu Missiae benedicti cessatura esse omnia legalia sacrificia , tantumque celebrandum sacrificium Thoda gratiarum actionis , laudis & confessionis : & illud peragendum pane & vino , sicut Melchisedech Rex Salem & Sacerdos Dei altissimi , temporibus Abrahami panem & vinum protulit . It was among the old Hebrues a most receaued Maxime , that at the coming of the blessed Messias , all legall sacrifices should cease , and onely the sacrifice Thoda of thankes geuing , praise and confession , should bee celebrated , and that to bee done with bread and wine , as Melchisedech King of Salem and preist of God most high in the time of Abraham brought forth breade and wine . Thus this learned protestant .

8. But where hee saith , onely that the Rabbines wrote thus ; Melchisedech did bringe forth bread and wine , that is his glosse ; for Franciscus Stancarus ( Apud Petr. Gallat. l. 10. de arcan ) The best learned protestant of his time in the Hebrue antiquities , doth assure vs from the most auntient Rabbines ( of which I haue cited Rabbi Samuel before ) the like , or more plaine , for the sacrificing of Melchisedechs bread and wine ; and that onely neuer to cease , but to continue in the time of the Messias So haue R. Moses Hadarsan , R. Pinhas , and R. Ioai , as the same protestant with others testifieth . So that wee plainely see , by all authoritie , the holy scriptures , the auncient Rabbines , and the generall consent of the holy primatiue Fathers of Christs church , as they are warranted by the best learned protestants of forrein nations whether Lutherans , or Caluinists , that both Melchisedech ( the plaine figure of Christ in this ) did offer sacrifice in bread & wine : and this kinde of sacrifice though after a more excellent maner , as the lawe of the Messias so requireth , was to bee offered by him , and his holy preists in that lawe . Now let vs come to our English protestants : to make all sure from any contradiction , and learne of them that the best learned of them doe so write , and all of them ought soe to acknowledge by their owne Religion .

9. For euidence whereof , it is a common maxime and ground of Religion among them , that the scriptures especially as they translate them , and logically deduced conclusions from them , are the word of God . ( Feild . pag. 226. wotton def. of Parkins pag. 467. ) To speake in their wordes : all matters concluded logically out of the scriptures ar the word of God , aswel as if they were expressely set downe in it word by word . And so of necessitie must they all say , if they will maintaine any externall shew of Religion , for reiecting traditions , and the authoritie of the church , as they doe , and claiminge onely by scriptures in all matters of faith , they must needes allowe soe ample authoritie to deductions from scriptures : for euident it is , and they willingly confesse , that all things which they hold euen as matters of faith , are not expressely sett downe in scriptures . And this is an expresse article of faith with them , sett downe in the 6. article of their Religion , confirmed by parlaments , and subscribed and sworne vnto , by all protestant Bishops , and ministers of England . The wordes of this their sworne and subscribed vnto Religion in this point are these . Articles of Engl. protest . Religion ratified by the parlaments and canons of Q. Eliz. and King Iames articul . 6.

10. Holy scripture conteyneth all thinges necessary for saluation : so that whatsoeuer is not read therin , nor may bee proued thereby , is not to bee required of any man , that it should bee beleeued as an article of the faith . Therfore things so reade in scripture and therby proued , must needes bee articles of faith , otherwise Religion should bee without articles of faith , which is vnpossible , for by this protestant Religion , there is no other meanes to make or proue them such . Being thus directed by these protestants and by their direction , I make this Argument and proofe from scriptures as they translate them : Euery high preist is ordeined to offer sacrifice for sinnes . ( Hebr. 5.1.8.3 . ) But Melchisedech was an high preist : Therefore ordeyned to offer sacrifice for sinnes . The first or maior proposition , is the very wordes of S. Paule , as our protestants translate him . The minor or second proposition , is theire translation of the Prophet Moises : Melchisedech was the preist of the most high God . ( Gen. 14.18 . ) Where hee is called , the preist , by excellency and blessing Abraham , and called by S Paule , better or greater then Abraham . ( Hebr. 7.6.7.9 . ) Who also was a great preist and patriarke , and as a superiour receauing tithes of him : and so eminent and cheife , that the order of which hee was , is not onely called the order of Melchisedech , but Christ himselfe often termed high preist after the order of Melchisedech : and as our protestants also translate , after the similitude of Melchisedech , as both the Greeke and Latine texts also are : Therefore Melchisedech of necessitie was an high preist . Therefore againe the conclusion , which in a true Argument and Sillogisme , as this is , cannot bee denied , that Melchisedech offered sacrifice , beeing therto ordeyned , is most certaine and an article of faith by these protestants Religion before .

11. And because by the rule of their Religion , wee may not seeke but in scripture to knowe what sacrifice it was , which hee offered , it must needes bee that sacrifice of bread and wine , which the scripture Rabbins , Fathers , and forreine protestants haue told vs of before : for wee do not find any other sacrifice , or matter like a sacrifice in scripture attributed to Melchisedech . If any man shall say , that S. Paule speaking of all high preists offering sacrifice , meaneth sacrifice vnproperly , as prayers and such deuotions : I answere this is not onely vnproperly , but by true consequence blasphemously spoken , vtterly denyinge that either the preists of the Lawe of Nature , or Moises , or Christ did offer any sacrifice , and so no sacrifice for sinne beeinge offered by Christ , mans redemption was not wrought by Christ , but man is vnredeemed , and Christ was not the Sauiour of the world ; for in that place as S. Paul speaketh of euery high preist and preistly orders , he also speaketh of the externall sacrifices of of them , in their order and time . And so doth the protestant publicke glosse vppon those wordes of S. Paule : Euery high preist is ordeyned to offer sacrifice : expound them in these termes : Hee bringeth a reason , why it must needes bee , that Christ should haue a body that hee might haue what to offer , for otherwise hee could not bee an highe preist . ( Protest . Annotat. in cap. 8. Hebr. v. 3 ) Therfore by these protestants S. Paul speaketh of an externall and properly named sacrifice , and that therefore Melchisedech , as well as other high preists , did offer an external sacrifice , otherwise by their owne reason the same which S. Paul alleageth , hee could not bee an high preist , as the holy scripture proueth hee was , not offering any externall sacrifice , which both by S. Paule so many testimonies before , and the publicke and authoritatiue exposition of English Protestants , is essentially and vnseparably belonging to al true preists & preisthood .

12. The Protestant Bishop D. Morton . ( Appeale l. 3. c. 13. pag. 394. ) plainely graunteth that Melchisedech offered an externall sacrifice , wherein there was really bread and wine . Hee further proueth from the Rabbins and Bibliander . ( supr. cent. 1. ) That at the cominge of the Messias , all legall sacrifices should ceise , and a sacrifice in bread and wine should onely stil continue . And constantly auoucheth for the common doctrine of English Protestants in these wordes : The protestants acknowledge in the Eucharist a sacrifice Euc●…aristicall . ( Mort. sup. l. 3. c. 13 ) The present protestant Archbishop of Canterbury director of Master Mason , and hee directed by him directly graunt , that the words of Christ concerning his body and blood to bee giuen , argue a sacrifice to God . ( Franc. Mason lib. 5. pag. 233. ) And cite and graunt further in this maner . ( pag. 243. ) Christ hauinge offered himselfe for a soueraigne sacrifice vnto his Father , ordeyned that wee should offer a remembrance thereof , vnto God , instead of a sacrifice . An other saith ( Middle . papistom . pag. 92.113 . ) The sacrifice of the Altare , and vnbloodye sacrifice , were vsed in the primatiue church : and the auncient Fathers called the sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ , a sacrifice . And againe . ( pag. 49.137.138.47.45 . ) The primatiue church did offer sacrifice at the Altar , for the dead . Sacrifice for the dead , was a tradition of the Apostles , and the auncient Fathers . And Isaac Casaubon the knowne french stipendary champion for the Protestants of England , writeth thus of our Kinge in this matter . ( Respons. ad Card. Peron . pag. 51. ) The Kinge is neither ignorant of , nor denieth , that the Fathers of the primatiue church did acknowledge one sacrifice in Christian Religion , that succeeded in place of all the sacrifices in the lawe of Moses . And least any man should doubt , what sacrifice hee ment , by so speaking , hee telleth vs , it is . The body of Christ in the Eucharist , as Catholicks hold : and addeth there : Haec est fides Regis , haec est fides Ecclesiae Anglicanae . This is the faiih of the Kinge , this is the faith of the English church . And writeth to Cardinall Perron in these wordes : The Kinge said in the hearing of manic , and wished him so to signifie to Cardinal Perron , that hee agreed with the Cardinal in his opinion , de duplici sacrificio , expiationis nempe , & commemorationis , siue Religionis . Concerning two kinds of sacrifice , the one of expiation for the world , the other commemoratiue , or of Religion . Which last Cardinall Perron with all Catholicks take to bee the sacrifice of Masse : Therefore if the English Protestant church and his maiestie , agree so far with Catholicks , the attonement wil sooner bee made in this matter .

13. Neither did Casaubon here assume for his maiestie , and English Protestants , any new thinge , but the same , which they had professed and graunted in their most solemne and publicke decrees and proceedings , from the first beginning of their parlamentary Religion in the time of Queene Elizabeth , or sooner . For wee are taught by these protestants , that in the first parlament of that Queene , when Catholick Religion was suppressed , yet both shee , her nobles , new Bishops , and the rest continued in this opinion , that there was an externall sacrifice in the church , and the Masse was this externall sacrifice : for appointing a kinde of disputation in questions they most disliked in Catholike Religion , or wherin they thought themselues to haue most aduantage , they set downe but three conclusions : The first of a straunge tongue , in common prayer : the second concerninge ceremonies : And the third and laste is thus : It cannot bee proued by the worde of God , that there is in the Masse offered vp a sacrifice propitiatory for the quicke and the dead . ●…h . Stow and Howes histor. an . 1. Elizab. Theater of Brit. an . 1. Eliz. ) Where they do not deny an externall sacrifice , in the churche of Christ , ●…hether that the Maste is this externall sacrifice , but so farre agree with Catholicks ; but they only deny , that by scripture , which they onely vnderstand by the worde of God , the sacrifice of Masse can bee proued a sacrifice propitiatory for the quick and dead . Neuer denying it to bee a commemoratiue and Eucharistical sacrifice , or of Religion as his maiesty before calleth it , by the mouth of Casaubon . Neither doe they absolutly deny it to bee a propitiatory sacrifice for the quicke and dead , but that it cannot bee so proued by scripture : neuer denying but by tradition it may so bee proued , as some protestants haue confessed before , and shal manifestly be proued hereafter by all testimonies .

14. And to make euident demonstration by these protestants of England , that they all doe , or should , both allowe an external sacrifice , and sacrificing preists , and preisthood , which they haue so longe and greeuously persecuted , there was yet neuer any protestant Prince , Kinge , or Queene in England , but by publick authoritie and lawe of Parlament allowed , and receaued the holy sacrifice of Masse , & consequentlie sacrificinge and massinge preists and preisthood , beeing as al learning teacheth , indiuisible and vnseparable correlatiues , maturally and mutually dependinge one of the other . It is euident that Kinge Henry 8. ( Stat. Hen. 8. testament . vlt. ) Both by Parlament , and his laste wil allowed Masse both for the quick and dead . King Edward the sixt . ( Theat. of great Brit. in Henr. 8. Statut. an . 1. Edward . 6. cap. 1. ) Enacted a a particular statute thereof confirming the doctrine of reall presence , and it was in force , al his life : & was repealed by Queene Mary in respect it did allow to communicants to receaue in both kindes . ( Stat. an . 1. Mar. parlam. 1. sess. 2. cap. 2. ) Queene Elizabeth in her first parlament , reuiued this statute againe and it continued in force all her life . Parlam . an . 1. Elizab. And his maiestie that now is , in his first parlament receaued and confirmed this very statute of the holy sacrifice of Masse , & the reall presence , and is still in force neuer by him repealed . Parlament an . 1. Iacobi cap. 5. The statute it selfe is so cleare in this point , as it cannot bee contradicted . And besides this , the iniunctions of Kinge Edward the sixt , the best interpretors of his lawe doe so assure vs , where in the 3.21.22 . Iniunction of his time wee finde then by his Regall Authoritie Masse , high Masse , altare , high altare , lights vppon the altare before the Sacrament , Christs reall presence therein , and transubstantiation , vsed commonly in England after this statute was enacted . ( Iniunct . of Kinge Edw. 6. iniunct . 1.21.22 . ) And both for the time of Queene Elizabeth , as also his maiestie that now is receauinge that statute .

15. The publicke collection of our statutes . ( Collection of Engl statutes an . D. 1611. Titul . seruice and Sacraments cap. 1. ) Printed cum priuilegio , by his maiesties allowance and commonly vsed by our protestant lawyers & others , hath this note and these words vppon this statute : Anno 1. Eduardi sexti cap. 1. This act was repealed by 1. Mar. parl. 1. sess. 2. cap. 2. and is reuiued by 1. Iacobi cap. 25. But note the time of the first making of this statute , which was before that the Masse was taken away , when the opinion of the reall presence was not remoued from vs . Whereby it is manifest , that both Queene Elizabeth , and Kinge Iames reuiuing and giuing full life , and validitie to this statute , of the doctrine of Masse , and reall presence , must needes giue the same allowance to those holy doctrines confirmed by that statute , and soe ought all English Protestants conforming themselues in matters of Religion , to the lawes and parlaments of Protestant Princes , the cheifest rules and squares by them in such proceedings . And so neither any Catholicke or Protestant of England , except they will bee singular against the lawe of their owne Religion , can or may take exception against that is said before , or professe himself an aduersary or persecutor of holy consecrated sacrificinge Catholicke preists , or sacrifice of holy Masse , but rather reuerence & embrace them And thus much from the booke of Genesis , that the true Messias was to bee a sacrificinge preist , according vnto the order of Melchisedech , to institute a new sacrificinge preisthood , and the externall holy sacrifice of Masse , to bee continued in his church for euer .

The same proued with like allowance , and approbation of Protestants , out of the booke of Exodus . THE II. CHAPTER .

NOw let vs come to Exodus the next booke of Moyses . Where the protestants shall informe vs , that both the auncient Rabbines before Christ , the Fathers of the primatiue church , and the scripture it selfe expounded by the grounds of protestant Religion doe warrant vs , not onely that there was an externall sacrifice to bee continued in the time , and Religion of Christ , but that this sacrifice in particular was the blessed body and blood of Christ , vnder the formes of bread and wine , as it is offered in the holy Masse , by massinge and sacrificinge Catholicke preists ; wee are told assuredly not onely from Catholicks some of them liuing and writing before these controuersies began , and which had beene eye witnesses of theire relation , but from protestants also , and those Sacramentary Caluinists , the greatest enemies to the holy sacrifice of Masse , and transsubstantiation , that vppon these wordes of Exodus in the 25. chapter where the vulgare latine readeth : Et pones super mensam panes propositionis in conspectu m●…o s●…mper : and our English Protestants translate : and thou shalt set vppon the table shew bread before mee alwaies . Petr. Gallatin . de Arcan Cathol. veritat . l. 10. cap. 6 Ioh. Vitus epist. Wintonicus . l. dure osiomart . rion . Franciscus Sta●…car . in correct . Petri Gallatini l. 10. c. 6. Praefat Protestant . ad lectorem ante Petr. Gallatin . edit . Francofurti an . 1612.

2. That the auncient Rabbines longe before Christ , expounded this place of the holy sacrifice of Christians , inferinge also from thence , as the text will giue warrant vnto ( as I shall proue hereafter by protestant Religion ) that this bread did signifie the sacrifice of the Messias , and that in his time , & in this sacrifice bread should be miraculously chaunged into his body : Stancarus the great Sacramentary linguist , citeth and approueth Rabbi Iudas , liuing as hee saith many yeares before Christ , to write in these wordes : Erit hic panis duaerum facierum , de quo scriptum est Exodi 25. capite . Lehem Phanim Aephanai tamid . panis facierum coram me semper . Quare autem dicatur panis facierum , ratio est , quia ait R. Iudas , transmutabitur ex substantia panis , cum sacrificabitur , in substantiam corporis Messiae , qui descendet de caelis . Et ipse idem erit sacrificium . Eritque inuisibilis atque impalpabilis , cuius rei fidem facit sedes Eliae . Et Magistri aiunt , eam ob rem dictum esse panem facierum , quia in ipso sacrificio erunt duae substantiae , diuinitas & humanitas . This bread shall bee of two faces , of which it is written in the 25. chapter of Exodus . Bread of faces before mee continually . And why it is called bread of faces , the reason is as Rabbi Iudas saith , because it shall bee chaunged when it is sacrificed out of the substance of bread into the substance of the body of the Messias which shal come from heauen , and hee himselfe shall bee the sacrifice , and shal bee inuisibly and vnpalpable . To which the state of Elias giueth credit , and the Masters say , that for that cause , it is called bread of faces , because in that sacrifice , there shal bee two substances , diuinitie and humanitie .

3. Neither doe the auncient Fathers of the Law of Christ expound it otherwise , but not finding how the things there spoken can bee rightly applied to the figuratiue sacrifices of the Lawe of Moises , doe glosse it , as the old Rabbins did , expounding it , of the holy sacrifice of Masse , in the Law of Christ : among whome , Theodoret that auncient learned greeke Father , ( Quaest. in Exod. quaest. 60. ) expoundinge that scipture , and not finding how it could bee ment or intended for the things of that Law of Moses , saith in respect of that : perspicuum est ista fuisse super ●…ua , Deoque minime grata . Nos autem sacrificium interiora penetrans celebramus , offerentes Deo incensum cum lumine lucernarum , & mystica sacrae mensae consecratione . It is euident that these thinges were superfluous and not acceptable to God . But wee ( Christians ) doe celebrate the sacrifice that penetrateth the internall thinges , offering vnto God incense with light of candels , and the mysticall consecration of the holy table . Which in other places . ( In Philotheo c. 20. Dialog. 2. & ad cap. 6. epistol. ad Hebr. ) Hee calleth , mysticum diuinum & salutare sacrificium , corpus & sanguinem Christi : The mysticall , diuine , and sauing sacrifice , the body , and blood of Christ . Which he commannded the preists of the new lawe to offer when hee said to his Apostles , doe this in my commemoration .

4. Neither can this place of scripture , if wee will bee directed by protestants , carry any other so proper interpretation : for first by their rule of the originall Hebrue tongue , in this place to bee followed , it is as I haue shewed before Lehem , Phanim , bread of faces , Aquila readeth as the Hebrue , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . The common Greeke , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bread before God , as Sebastian Castalio , panis appositiuus , bread set before God , and our protestants seeme to meane no other , when they translate it , shew bread : for by their owne translation God thus commaundeth : Thou shalt set vppon the table shew bread before mec alway . ( Exod. 25. v. 30. ) The table on which this bread was thus to bee placed , was of Shittim incorruptible wood , the table to bee couered with pure gold , with a crowne of gold rounde about it . And foure rings of gold , and staues of Shittim incorruptible wood couered with gold to beare it by . All the vessels belonginge to this holy table were of pure gold , and seuen golden lamps of gold besides candlesticks of gold to burne before this holy sacrifice , and a table continually , and all this in the most holy place the propitiatory , where God spake vnto that people : which beeing so strictly commaunded by God , of this , and noe other sacrifice , argueth , that which was figured herin should bee the most honorable , and continuinge sacrifice , not to end with the propitiatory , and Gods appearing there , but to continue in the holy Religion of the Messias , therin prefigured . Which must needes bee of that excellency there described with so great glory , to bee euer in the sight of God .

5. What superstition and idolatrie by Protestant Religion allowing ( no such Reuerence but to Christ himselfe ) was this , except some great supernatural mistery and worthie that reuerence , had beene figured therin ? and nothing there is by their Religion , that can haue so much , but the blessed body of Christ . Therefore they must needes graunt this moste holy , continuall , and most pleasing sacrifice to God , to bee there prefigured . And if wee follow their rule of concordance of places , they paralell with this , the 24. chapter of Leuiticus , where this sacrifice is made of pure flower , baked into cakes , set vppon the pure table before the Lord , it is a memoriall , an offeringe made to the Lord , an euerlasting couenant , to be eaten in the holy place , most holy of all offerings , by a perpetuall statute . Thus our protestants . Which as it cannot bee verified of any sacrifice of Moises Lawe , vnperfect , figuratiue , and ended by Christ so longe since , neuer to bee reuiued againe , neuer holy in themselues , and protestants pretend no such sacrifice for them , beeing in all thinges most euidently consonant , and agreeinge with that , which Catholickes maintaine , and proue of the most blessed sacrifice , of Christs most sacred body , and blood , offered vpon an euer duringe altar , and most acceptable in the sight of God , it must needes be vnderstood of this , and nothing els .

6. Also in the same Booke of Exodus written by Moses , the sacrifice of the Paschall Lambe ( a figure of this most holy sacrifice ) was instituted : for although this may be said to forshew the death of Christ , yet it cannot bee denied denied , but it also & properly represented this our holy commemoratiue sacrifice , and that this Paschal lambe was also a sacrifice , for so the scriptures witnesse . ( Exod. c. 12. v. 6. ) Ve shahatu otho : and they shal sacrifice him : Thus the Hebrue , so the Greeke , so the Latine , immolabitque eum : and our protestants translatinge : shall kill it : make it a new text , the scripture beeing otherwise , and so they themselues translate in the same chapter . ( Exod. c. 12. v. 27. ) It is the sacrifice of the Lords passouer , as the Hebrue , Sebac , Greek Cobia , Latine victima is . And in the booke of members . ( c. 9. v. 13. ) Our protestants translate it , offerringe equiualent with sacrifice , so it is in the new testament in diuers places , ( Marc. cap. 14. Luc. c. 22. v 7. ) And that it more properly signifieth Christes holy oblation in the Eucharist , then vpon the Crosse , the reasons ar many and manifest . His oblation vpon the Crosse did not fall vppon the fourteenth day , neither at eueninge , as the commaundement of this was . ( Exod. 12. Num. 9. ) but vpon the fifteenth day at none time and not the eueninge . Neither was Christ crucified in memory of any passouer or deliuery , neither crucified so to bee eaten , neither did or might any eate or drinke his body or blood so sacrificed . Neither was hee so sacrificed in any house as the commaundement was , or in Hierusalem , but without the towne in the open feild . And not onely the baptized and cleane , but all others ought to eate and receaue by faith Christ sacrificed vppon the Crosse : which was forbidden in the Paschall Lambe and that which was figured in it as an euerlasting memoriall . ( Exod. 12. v. 14. Leuit. 23. Num. 28. Exod. c. 12. v. 45.46.47.48 . Num. c. 9.22 . )

7. And this sacrifice of the Lambe was instituted before Aarons preisthood , as that of Melchisedech was , and so as Philo writeth . ( l. 1. de vita Moisis . ) The old custome therein continued , that the cheife of families should exercise the preistly function , and so that sacrifice of the Lambe as wel as that of Melchisedech , figures of our most holy sacrifice and Sacrament , were eaten and receaued by all : whereas the sacrifices of Moises Law offered by the preistes of Aarons order , were onely receaued by the preists , & those of the tribe of Leui. ( 1. Corinth. 9.13 . Deuter. 18.1 . Num. 10.9 . & 18.20 . ) And of all men our protestantes that would haue the Eucharist celebrated only with a communion for others besides the preist to receaue , and communicate should bee of this opinion , if they would speake consequently , as learned and truely religious men must doe : and except they can proue a bit of Bakers breade to bee a more excellent and honorable signe , and more perfectly to figure and represent the oblation and death of Christ , then an Innocent Lambe so ceremoniously , and religiously sacrificed and receiued as that was , and say with the blasphemous Iewes , that the lawe of Christ is not more perfect then the lawe of Moises , and still offer vp a Paschall Lambe , they must needes acknowledge , that wee Christians haue a farre more excellent sacrifice , figured by that Lambe , then Caluins communion is .

And this is plainely proued by our blessed Sauiour himselfe , who so soone as hee had celebrated the sacrifice of the Paschall Lambe , and imposed an end vnto those sacrifices of the law , there presently at the same time , and in the same sacrificing wordes wherewith bee ended that which was to cease , hee founded and instituted the most holy sacrifice of the law of the ghospell to continue for euer , and neuer to bee altered or taken away . ( Matth. c. 26. v. 18. Luc. c. 22. v. 19. ) And the Hebrue worde , Gasha , in which language Christ spake at that time , is an vsuall sacrificinge word , in holy scriptures , and must needes bee the same , wherwith hee spake in S. Luke , and S. Paul thus repeateth . Doe this in my commemoration . ( 1. Corinth . cap. 11. v. 25. ) For although wee haue not any Hebrue text of those places , yet that sacrificinge Hebrue word , beeing the Hebrue to that Greeke and Latine which wee haue , seing Christ spake in Hebrue , wee must needes affirme , they were both alike , and is a sacrificinge word , so vsed seuen or eight times , in one ( the 29. ) chapter of Exodus , and so many other scriptures , as I haue here quoted : as likewise the greeke which wee haue , and protestants should as they protest to doe , follow in the new testament . Leuit. c. 16. v. 9. Exod. c. 10. v. 25. Numer . c. 6. v. 10.11 . Leuit. c. 9. v. 7. c. 16.22 . Leuit. 14. v. 18.19.29.30.31 . cap. 15. v. 14.15.29.30 . c. 16. v. 9.24 . c. 17.9 . c. 22. v. 23.24 . c. 23. v. 11.12.18.19 . Numer . c. 6. v. 10.11.16.17 . c. 8. v. 12. cap. 9. v. 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.10.11.12.13.14 . cap. 15. v. 3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.24 . cap. 15. v. 29.30 . Fr. Mas. l. 5. cap. 6. pag. 235.243 .

9. And our protestants of England freelie acknowledge , that both the primatiue Fathers and councels doe so testifie : The present protestant Archbishop of Canterbury , director to Master Mason , together with his directed scribe confesse : This is the iudgement of the Fathers : Irenaeus saith , that Christ did then teach , the oblation of the new testament , which the church throughout all the world doth vse . Chrisostom saith , the wordes of the Lord , giue strength to the sacrifice vntill the end of the world . So they and others write of S. Cyprian , S. Ambrose , S. Augustine , S. Cyrill , S. Leo Fulgentius , and others . ( Park . problom . pag. 153.154 . Morton . appeall . 2. cap. 6. Mason . l. 5. pag. 243. ) And for councels say : The Nicen ( first ) councell in that Canon which Caluine and all others receaue , saith plainely , that the Lambe of God offered vnbloodely , is laide vppon the holy table . And for their owne opinion are forced to confesse , that Christ did in that place offer his body and blood in sacrifice : for beeinge vrged with this Argument . Christ said : This is my body which is giuen for you , or as it is in S. Paul , which is broken for you : and againe . This is my blood of the new testament , which is shedd for you , is shedd , is broken , is giuen not to you , but to God for you , doe not these wordes argue a reall , actuall and proper sacrifice ? They aunswere and graunt in these words : They argue a sacrifice to God . ( Prot. Archb. Abb. and Franc. Mason supr. l. 5. pag. 233. ) Therefore of necessitie must also graunt , that it is the most holy sacrifice of Christs body , and blood figured in that Paschall Lambe , as so many authorities haue told vs : and except the sacrifice of Christs body and blood be not a propitiatory sacrifice for sinnes ( which they may not say ) they must needes confesse , that in holy Masse preists doe offer , not onely a commemoratiue , but a propitiatorie sacrifice .