On I Peter 2:4-5 --
"[This] Condemns the Blasphemous Sacrifice of the Mass, where (as the Papists says) Christ is by the Priest offered daily on the Altar a propitiatory Sacrifice for the sins of the quick and the dead: This is to overthrow Christs Cross.
"But though there be and end of all legal Sacrifices and Propitiatory, yet there are Evangelical and Gratulatory; and though those Priests that offered blood and beasts be at an end, yet are there Priests still remaining in the Church of God, which the Apostle mentions, lest the Jews should think the former times better than these; thereupon objecting, Have we no Sacrifices now to offer to God? he answereth. We have, though not of the same kinde: We have no Propitiatory Sacrifices (the date of them being out, and which yet were not taken away by men, but by him who ordained them but till this time, who yet is not inconstant in changing them, as having done away with sin through the Sacrifice of his Son, of whom the others were onely the types and shadows) but Sacrifices of thanksgiving we have, and that for the mercy of God in Christ, and all other blessings flowing from thence: This is no small honor and privilege. It was an hope under the Law to be Priests, few were admitted to the Office, they represented Christ, they went near and offered Sacrifice, the people standing afar off; so is it now to be a Spiritual Priest, so to have the honor to come near to God with comfort and boldness."
-- John Rogers, 206-207.
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