The Principles of Protestantism An Examination of the Doctrinal Differences Bet
The Principles of Protestantism An Examination of the Doctrinal Differences Bet
James Phillip Lilley
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The Romanist view, as it is set forth in the decrees of the Council of Trent, may be said to embrace these main elements. I. It starts with the assumption that the Lord Jesus acted as a High Priest after the order of Melchisedek not in heaven only, but also on earth, and that not simply by offering up His life on the cross as a ransom for sinners, but very specially, even before the crucifixion, by presenting to God in the sacrament of the Supper a 170 THE MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH 17I sacrifice o...f Himself in the form of bread and wine. So the decree of the Council literally runs : " He therefore, our God and Lord, though He was about to offer Himself once on the altar of the cross to God the Father by means of His death, there to operate an eternal redemption ; nevertheless because that His priesthood was not to be extinguished by His death, in the last Supper on the night in which He was betrayed — that He might leave to His own beloved spouse the Church, a visible sacrifice such as the nature of man requires, where- by that bloody sacrifice, once to be accomplished on the cross might be represented and the memory thereof remain unto the end of the world, and its salutary virtue be applied to the remission of those sins which we daily commit — declaring Himself constituted a Priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedek, He offered up to God the Father His own body and blood under the species of bread and wine.
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