The second and last part of Reasons for refusall of subscription to the Booke of common prayer vnder the hands of certaine ministers of Deuon. and Cornwall, as they were exhibited by them to the right Reuerend Father in God William Cotton Doctor of Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of Exceter. As also an appendix, or compendious briefe of all other exceptions taken by others against the bookes of communion, homilies, and ordination, word for word, as it came to the hands of an honorable personage. VVith an ansvvere to both at seuerall times returned them in publike conference, and in diuerse sermons vpon occasion preached in the cathedrall church of Exceter by Thomas Hutton Bachiler of Diuinitie, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Oxon.
Hutton, Thomas, 1566-1639., Cotton, William, d. 1621.
To affirme a Priest and Priesthood doth derogate from Christ Iesus who hath put an end to Priest, and Priesthood.
True it doth; to meane a sacrificer of a carnall, reall, external, propitiatorie sacrifice of the very body, and blood of Christ vnder the formes of breade, & wine vpon a materiall altar for the quick and dead:* Els in a borrowed speech by way of allusion to the le∣gall rites, it doth no way derogate. For the holie ghost witnes∣seth accordingly, as was prophesied by Esay, we are a roial priest¦hood vnto God to offer vp spirituall sacrifices.
