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IV. Confutation from the Romish Disvaluation of that which they call Christ's Sacrifice.
THe last is in respect of the value, for Christ's Sacrifice on the Crosse you doe Christianly esteeme to have beene of a Infinite merit and Satisfaction, because it was offered by himselfe: and that otherwise b He could not have made Satisfaction to an Infi∣nite and Divine Majestie. So you. But of the Sacrifice of the
Masse, what? The common opinion of our Church (saith your c Car∣dinall) is that it is but of finite value. So he. Notwithstanding it be impossible for any thing of finite virtue to have power in it selfe of remission of an infinite guilt against an infinite Ma∣jesty.
A More palpable betraying therefore of a Cause there cannot be, than (as you have hitherto done) by defending Positi∣ons repugnant to your owne Definition, and by obtruding things as proper, which are void of all due Properties. This being all one, as if you, in the Case of Miracles, would deliver unto us a Iannes and Iambres, instead of Moses; in Art, Sophistrie for Lo∣gique; in Commerce 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is, adulterate Coine for cur∣rent; and in warlike stratagems, instead of a naturall, a Trojane Horse. Oh what a misery it is to reason with such unreasonable (to speake mildly) men! Thus much of your Romish Sacrifice, according to your owne Explanations thereof.
Mirum non est, si cùm Christus infi∣nitus extitit, ejus ho∣stia fuit infiniti meriti & satisfactionis. Sal∣meron. Ies. Tom. 9. Tract. 33. pag. 265, 266.
Erat infiniti valoris: nec enim aliter potuit compensari injuria Deo facta. Ribera Ies. in Heb. 10. num. 19.
Valor Sacrificii Missae est finitus. Haec est communis senten∣tia Theologorum: in quo distinguitur à Sacrificio Crucis—quod infinitae virtutis erat, & nunquàm re∣petitur. Bellarm. lib. 2. de Missa, cap. 4. §. Quarta P••op. [And yet it is knowen that Card. Cajetane, C••nus, and Scotus were of a contrary opinion.] To this last testimony of Ballarmine adde also Salmeron. Ies. Tom. 5. Tract. 33. §. Tertiò.