Epijileof S. Paul to Tits. Canr.z.lq for this purpofe fanftifFedhimfelfe, as the altar fanEÜficth the gift, and the 501 Temple the gold : no Priesthood, not Leniticall, much leffePapall, was sohar.ty. cuer worthy fo great honour,as to offer veto God the Father his welbe- louedSonne:neither any Priefi can offer fuch a facrifice as this is,wbere- in is both thefulfilling of the Law, and paiment of all forfeits, who is not themediator betweene God and man, yea both God and man : for without humanitic can be no facrifice at all, and without deitie no fuch fufliciencic; and if deitie alone, or human tiealone had beetle fufñcient for fuch a worke, the Sonneof God had taken fle(Is in vaine. Whence it is that the Scriptures infeparably ioyne there two, the Mediator, and the Priefi ofthe neweTefiament: Hcb. i z.Ye are comevnre lefru the Medi- ator of therime Tefiament,and the bloodoffprindlin?, dre. r. Tim. 1. there is one Mediator betweeneGod and man ---whogatre himfelfe A raa- fome. Whence it is direúly concluded,that ifthere be but one Mediator MaffnPdells of the newTcliament, there canbe but one Priefi ; and that if all the M ran its rabble of the tnafie-mongers beNiels properlyof the newTefiament, tl cafons. they mini be alfomediators and redeemers; whereas the Scripture faith, there is but one. Againe, as the facrifice is but one, fo therecan be but onePriefi, and 1 he mull be fo qualified, as neuer any man, no not Aaron himielfe was ; for thus the Author of the Hebrews aduanceth this prie(ihoodof Chrifi. t. In theLeuiticaliPrielihood were many Pricfis,becaufethey died and had fuceflion: but here is none but one Priefi without fucceflion: for his Prielihood neede not, nor cannot patte from him to another,becan le he litter',for ester, and a Priefi after the order ofMcich,r.edech, without be- ginningof time, or ende ofdayes : and he Ihewes whyChrifi muli needs liue for euer, tomake intercejon for yr in heatren, namely, by the fwecte sr. finell ofhis facrificeonce offered:which if noPriefi but hecan doe,then no manwho liuethnot euer, can be properly a Priefi of the newTelia- ment but healone. z. He is further prooued the onely Priefi,from an in- duëlion of manyqualities, forne proper to his perfon , and forne tohis office, which cannot agree to any man or creature but himfeife onely: It f bchoouerh vs tohaue filch an high, Priefi, which ie hofy,inrent led, I s feparatefromfnnerr;higher thenthe heartens, who neede not offer for his owneflares ar they,xf'c. The fpecial things obie&ied by thePapifis againfl this truth,are two fitti, that Chrifi is indeede fuch a Pricti as we fpcakeof; but they difün- i} s c'h1uit guifhof Priefis: Gish:* is the cheife and principals, but there may bee fecondarit anti inferior): P: iefis,by whom, Chrifif1111offereth himfdfc 4crJicand vntoGod,and in these Chrifis facrifice is perpetuated.But asour learned n rcnrowne. Fulke fpeaketh; If all external] priefihood before Chrifi was but a lïs;tu ` vpontitbr.y. Iia of
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