Co[m]mon places of Scripture ordrely and after a co[m]pendious forme of teachyng set forth with no litle labour, to the gret profit and help of all such studentes in Gods worde as haue not had longe exercyse in the same, by the ryghte excellent clerke Eras. Sarcerius ; translated in to Englysh by Rychard Tauerner.

¶Of the {pro}piciatory sacrifice of Moses lawe.

A Sacrifice of redemcion in the cō¦mon welth of Moses,* 1.1 is a worke y^• redemed the iustice of y^• law, y^• he which had cōmitted sin sholde not be excluded out of y^• cōmon weale of Mo∣ses, & it is a fygure of the true sacrifice of sinnes before god.* 1.2

¶This diffiniciō is certeine by the epist▪ to the hebrues. capi. ix where the apostle plucketh from all the sacrifices of Mo∣ses law al maner of perfection in y^• cōs∣cience.* 1.3 For he saith thus. Into the secōd table went the high prest alone ones e∣uery yere, & not without bloode, whiche he offered for hym self, & for y^• ignoraūce ••f the people, wherfore the holy ghost ••his signyfyed, that y^• way of holy thin ••es was not yet opened, while as yet y^• ••irst tabernacle was stāding, which was ••simylitude for the tyme then presēt & •• which were offered gyftes & sacrifices y^• shulde not make y^• ministre perfyte, as {per}teynynge to the cōsience, &c. But Christ being an highe preest, &c. shal purge your conscyence frō deed workes for to serue the lyuing god. Also it foloweth in the x. chap. Euery preest is redy dayly mini∣string & often times offereth one maner of offering which can neuer take awaye sinnes. &c. By which wordes thapostle

taketh away frō the {pro}piciatory sacrifi∣ces of Moses the purgacion of sinnes, wherfore forasmoch as suche sacrifices coulde not take away sinnes, it is certein y^• suche sacrafices of Moses lawe onely serued to make men rightous in the eye of the lawe. Finally that these Mosai∣call sacrifices of redēption were figures of the trtue sacrifices for sinnes in the sight of god, is manifest by the epistle to y^•. hebr, namely in the .x. chap••ter.

¶The causer of this sacryfyce is god,* 1.4 which cōmaunded this sacrifice to the children of Israel, to admonysh them of true sacrafices of redēpciō which Christe the high byshop in tyme cōmyng sholde off••e Moses was the pupblysher of this sacrifyce. And the high byshop was the offerer of it.

¶Of this sacrifyce be not partes,* 1.5 onles a mā wil take the dyuers kindes ī stede of partes. For vnto this sacrifice belong all such sacrafices as were made for sinnes or trespaces as sin offringes. &c. of which mēcion is made in the .iiii. & .v. cap. of Le¦uiticus.

¶Theffectes of the sacrifice of redemciō* 1.6 in Moses law were these. To reconcile y^• Iues to their comynaltye againe. To redeme the iustice of y^• law. These effect{is}

be certaine by thexēples of such as haue be reconcyled by these sacrifices vnto y^• publyque weal•• of Moses. Also where as y^• epistle to the Hebrues plucketh frō thē redemciō of sinnes before god it lea∣ueth vnto them the redempciō of iustice in the polycye of Moses. Itē to puryfye or sanctify to y^• purgacion of y^• fles heb. ix.* 1.7 For if the blood of oxē & of gotes, and the ashes of an heifer, whē it was sprīk∣led, puryfyed the vncleane as touchinge the purifieng of y^• flesh, how moch more shal the bloode of Christ which through the eternal spirite offered him self w^tout spot to god, purge your cōsciences frome dead workes to serue the lyuīg god. To be figures of y^• true sacrifice of Christ as testifieth the saide epist.* 1.8 to the Heb. For the law which hath but the shadowe of good thinges to come▪ &c.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Of the {pro}pi∣ciatorie sacri∣fyce in Mo∣ses lawe.
• * 1.2

  Proue
• * 1.3

  Hebre. ix. b.
• * 1.4

  Causes
• * 1.5

  Partes
• * 1.6

  Effectes▪
• * 1.7

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• * 1.8

  Hebre. x. a