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THE FIFTH BOKE IS OF THE OBLATION AND SACRI∣fice of our Sauiour Christe. (Book 5)
* 1.1The greatest blasphemye & iniury that can be against Christe, & yet uniuersally vsed through the Popishe kyngdom, is this, that the priestes make their Masse a sacrifice propitiatory, to remit the synnes aswell of theim selues, as of other both quicke and dead, to whō they list to apply the same. Thus vnder pretence of holynes, the Papistical priestes haue taken vpon them to be Christes successours, and to make suche an ob∣lacion and sacrifice, as neuer creature made but Christe alone, neither he made the same any mo tymes than ones, and that was by his death vpon the crosse.
* 1.2For as sainct Paule in his Epistle to the Heb∣rues witnesseth,
Although the high priestes of the olde lawe offered many tymes (at the least e∣uery yere ones) yet Christe offereth not him selfe many tymes,* 1.3 for then he should many tymes haue dyed. But nowe he offereth him selfe but ones, to take awaye, synne by that offeryng of him selfe. And as menne must dye ones, so was Christ offered ones, to take awaye the synnes of many.
And furthermore S. Paule sayth,
That the