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LEauing no smal number of places, that might be recited out of diuerse other Doctours, I wil bring two of two woorthy Bishops, one of Chrysostom, the other of S. Ambrose, confirming this Trueth. S. Chrysostomes woordes be these. Pontifex noster ille est, qui hostiam mundantem nos obtulit: ipsam offerimus & nunc, quae tunc oblata qui∣dem consumi non potest. Hoc autem, quod
nos facimus, in commemorationem fit eius, quod factum est. Hoc enim facite, inquit, in mei commemorationem. He is our Bishop, that hath offered vp the Hoste, whiche cleanseth vs. The same doo we offer also nowe, whiche though it were then offered, yet can not be consumed. But this, that we doo, is done in Remembraunce of that, whiche is done. For, doo ye this, saith he, in my Remembraunce. S. Ambrose saith thus: Vidimus Principem Sa∣cerdotum ad nos venientem: vidimus, & au∣diuimus offerentem pro nobis sanguinem su∣um: sequamur, vt possumus, sacerdotes, vt offeramus pro populo sacrificium, etsi infirmi merito, tamen honorabiles Sacrificio. Quia etsi Christus non videtur offerre, tamen ipse offertur in terris, quando Christi Corpus offer∣tur. We haue seene the Prince of Priestes come to vs: we haue seene and hearde him offer for vs his Bloude: Let vs that be Priestes, folow him, as we may, that we may offer Sacrifice for the people, being though weake in merite, yet honourable for the Sacri∣fice. Because al be it Christe be not seene to offer, yet he is offered in earth, when the Body of Christe is offered. Of these our Lordes woordes, which is geuen for you, and, which is shedde for you, and for many, here S. Ambrose exhorteth the Priestes, to offer the
Body and Bloud of Christe for the people: and willeth them to be more regarded, then cōmonly they be now a daies, for this Sacrifice sake, though otherwise they be of lesse desert.
Chrysosto. in epist. ad Heb. homi. 17.
Ambros. In Psal. 38.