An Argument out of Malachy.
Malachy. Cap. 1.* 1.1 In euery place is sacrificed and offered vnto me a pure offering. Because my name is great amongest the Gen∣tiles, sayth the Lord God of Hoastes. In this saying of Malachy three thinges (as they say) are to be cōsidered. The dissolu∣tion of the Synagogue. The dissolution of the Leuiticall sa∣crifices, and the institution of a new sacrifice.* 1.2 In which new sacrifice is a double property. 1. that it come in place of the leuiticall sacrifices. 2. that it be offered in all places. Which properties cann not be appliable any where, but to the Masse onely. For first they doe not agree with the spirituall sacrifices of the Christians, wherewith God is worshipped with the inward affections of the soule: because all these sa∣crifices be generall vnto vs, aswell as they were in the lawe of nature, and the law of Moyses. Then also they cann not agree with the Leuiticall sacrifices which were not execu∣ted euery where, but were limited to one place onely. No more may they haue any partaking with the sacrifice of the Crosse, which was accomplished once, and in one place onely. It remayneth therefore that this propheticall sacri∣fice of Malachy, must signifie the vnbloudy sacrifice of the Masse, according to the Testimonyes of the Ecclesiasticall writers, Irene, Augustine, Ierome, Damascene. &c.