Iewel. 209.VVe vse the vvordes, that Christ vsed. If Christ and his Apvstles cō∣secrated, then do vve vndoubtedly likevvise consecrate: And our inten∣tion is to doo that, Christ hath taught vs to do.
Harding.
Christ was a Priest, and consecrated as a Priest, asa 1.1 S. Cyprian, andb 1.2 S. Hierom doo witnesse, that as Mel∣chisedech in foreshewing the figure of Christ had done, panem, & vinum offerens, offering breade and wine: ip∣se quoque veritatem sui corporis & sanguinis repraesentaret, Christ him selfe also should make present the truth of his body and bloud. And when Christ had thus consecra∣ted his body and bloud, then he made his Apostles also Ministerial Priestes,* 1.3 saying, doo ye this (wherein is con∣teined, make this) in my remembrance. And so they con∣secrated alwaies as Priestes, and taught vs the oblation of the new testament,* 1.4 as S. Irenaeus witnesseth. But as for you M. Iewel, beleeuing, there is no external priest∣hoode,