M. Hardinge. The .13. Diuision.
Nowe for proufe of the Sacrifice, and Oblation of Christe by the Doctoures minde vpon the
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Nowe for proufe of the Sacrifice, and Oblation of Christe by the Doctoures minde vpon the
figure of Melchisedech:* 1.1 First S. Cyprian saithe thus.* 1.2 Qui magis sacerdos Dei summi, quàm Dominus noster Iesus Christus, qui sacrificium Deo patri obtulit, & obtulit hoc idem, quod Melchisedech, id est, Panem & Vinum, suum, scilicet, Corpus, & Sanguinem. VVho is more the Prieste of the highest God, then our Lorde Iesus Christe, who offered a Sacrifice to God the Father, and offered the selfe same, that Melchisedek did, that is, Breade and VVine, that is to saie, his owne Body and Bloude? S. Hierome in an epistle, that he wrote for the vertuouse women Paula, and Eustochium to Marcella, hath these woordes: Recurre ad Genesim, & Mel∣chisedech Regem Salem. Huius principem inuenies ciuitatis, qui iam in typo Christi Panem, & Vinum obtulit, & Mysterium Christianum in Saluatoris sanguine, & corpore dedicauit. Retourne to the Booke of Genesis, and to Melchisedech the Kinge of Salem. And thou shalt finde the Prince of that Citie, who euen at that time in the figure of Christe offered Breade, and VVine, and dedicated the Mysterie of Christians in the Body, and Bloude of our Sauiour. Here this learned Father maketh a plaine distinction betweene the Oblation of the Figure, whiche was Breade and VVine, and the Oblation of the Trueth, whiche is the Mysterie of Christen people, the Bloude and the Body of Christe our Sauiour. Of this S. Augustine speaketh largely in his firste Ser∣mon vpon the 33. Psalme, and in the 17. booke De ciuitate Dei, cap. 20.
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