An ansvvere to a certen libel intituled, An admonition to the Parliament, by Iohn VVhitgifte, D. of Diuinitie

Admonition.

* 1.1The fift. As for the halfe communion, whiche is yet appointed like to the commemoration of the Masse, we saye little of it, sauing that wee may note, howe neare the translatour bounde him selfe to the massebooke, that woulde not o∣mit it. Wee speake not of the name of Prieste, wherwith he defaceth the minister of Christe, (bicause the priest that translated it, would per∣haps fayne haue the minister of Christ to be ioy∣ned with him) seing the office of priesthoode is ended christ being the last priest that euer was. To call vs therfore priests as touching our of∣fice, is eyther to call back agayn the olde priest∣hode of the lawe, whiche is to denie Christe to be comen, or else to keepe a memorie of the Po∣pish priesthod of abhomination stil amongst vs. As for the first, it is by▪ d 1.2 Christe abolished, and for the seconde it is of Antichriste, and there∣fore wee haue nothyng to doe with it. Suche ought to haue e 1.3 no place in our Church, neyther are they ministers of Christe, sente to preach his Gospell, but priestes of the Pope to sacri∣fice

for the quicke and the dead, that is, to tread vnder their feete the bloud of Christe. Suche oughte not to haue place amongest vs, as the scriptures manifestly teache. Besides that we neuer reade in the newe Testament, that thys worde Priest, as touching office, is vsed in the good parte.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Halfe com∣munion.
• d 1.2

  Hebr. 5.1.6. Hebr. 9.11.
• e 1.3

  Eze. 44.10.12.13. Ierem. 23. Hebr. 5 4.