SECT. I.

FIrst the Reason, why you account your Propitiatory Sacrifice to be but of finite Virtue, is a Because it is not immediatly offe∣red up by Christ himselfe, as that was of the Crosse; but by his Mi∣nister. And the Reason of this, you say, is, b Because the Vniver∣sall Cause worketh according to the limitation of the second Causes. So you. Vnderstanding, by Sacrifice, not the Object of your Re∣membrance, which is the Body of Christ, as crucified; but the subject matter, in the hand of the Priest. From whence this Con∣sequence must issue, whether you will or no, (namely) that Per∣fection of the Sacrifice being a necessary property of a true Propi∣tiatory Virtue and efficacy in prevailing with God for man, it is impossible for any of your Priests (because All are imperfect) to offer up properly a Propitiatory Sacrifice unto God.

None may hereupon oppose unto us the Propitiatory Sacrifices under the Law, because they also were twice imperfect; once in respect of the Sacrificer, who was but a mere man: and secondly, in respect of the matter of Sacrifice it selfe, which was some un∣reasonable beast, and had no Virtue of Propitiation in it selfe, for remission either of guilt, or of the eternall punishment of sinne, as hath beene * Confessed; and therefore not properly Propitia∣tory, but fiuratively; only as Types of the Sacrifice of Christ.