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Ad Hebe. Hom.
~ 780” A Funeral Sermon
by Re refentation only, no mote chan Chrift and the Prieft are one perfor: "and therefore though
in the Crofle aud the Eecharitt there be Idem facrificatum, the fame facrificed things shat isthé Boa.
dy and Blgod of Chrift, offered by Chrift to His Father on the Crofle, and received and participated...
by the Commiunicants in the Sacrifice ofthe Altar ;.yet Jdem [aceificivns quoad abtionem facrificsi,
: facrificandis it is impofhible there fhould be the. fame facrifice , under{tanding ‘by. factifice the’
Ske of factifice. C For then, the A@tion of «.Chrifts facrifice, which is long fince pat, hould con.
tinue as long as the Eucharift {hall endure, even untg the worlds end ; and his con[urimatam esis.
not yet finithed :’ And.dying and not dying, thedding of bloodand not fhedding of, blood, and fuf-
fering and not fuffering cannot poflibly be ove altion:) and the: Reprefentation Of an Action: cannot
be che AGtion ir felf. . . ~ .
And this conceipt was unknown to Antiquity, Ail the Fathers held ica facrifice, only becaufe
irisaR pref entation of Commemoration of the\True facrifice of Chrift upon the -Crofle 3 even as
our Saviour commanded, Da this tn rensembrance of me. Saint duguftine faith, “Hujus facrificii caro
& fanguss 5 ante adyentum C hriftiy per. viltinas; jinsilitndinuze promittebarur + in: paffione! Chrifti,
per ipfam Veritatem reddebatur :. post afcenfum Chrifti, per S: atramentum memoria: celebratur, &C.
And Saint Chryfoftome, Hoc eft exemplar slling,’&c. ‘And Thomap eA quinas giving the reafon of €
diverfe Names given to this Sacrament, faith, that ig hach atiplefignification. 1 Re/felly prateriti,
one in refpect of the Time paft;inafmuch as itis commemorative of the L OR'D’S Paffien, which
is calleda true facrifice, and according to.this, isis’ calleda facrifice. 2. Refpetlu prafentés, in re-
fpeét of the prefent,-thac is, of the Maity’of thé Church , unto which men are gathered by this
ground of the daily Sucrifice of Chriltians, chacanfwerer
. Tecus offer and:facrifice per spfum by him, in whom o
- out foules, there is no Life, no holizefs, no accepting:
toofer up [piritual Sacrifices acceptable to God, per’ Ipfam C briftum, b
. And Sarat. Fauses. ( Chap.I. Ver, XVII; ) tells us,
- Sacrifice, efpecially as facrifice doth fignifie the Aéion of facrificing,
Sacrament, and according to this itisnamed a Communion, of Synaxts, becaufe by it we communi-
care With Chrift, and arg parrakers of - his Flefh and Deity.°3. effects faturijin refpe& of thar which
is to come, inafmuclias this Sacramencis prefigurntive of-the fruition of GOD, which-fhall be
in heaven; and accordingly iris called viaticum, becaufe ic here furnitheth ,us’inythe way , chac
leadsusthither, ‘Again, it is called the Encharift,-thatis, bowa gratia, the good grace, becaufe E-
ternal life isthe grace of God, Rom.-V3. or,elfe, becaufeir really conraines Chrilt, who is full of
grace, It isalfo called ALetalepfis, or Affamptio, becaufe by itwe aflume the Deity of the Son,
‘All this, Part, QLXXIL Artic. WI, Jn. corpore... And-in-his-Anfwer. a/Ilbahe addech ,
Thar this Sacrament is called a Sacrifice, inafmuch as it doth reprefent the Paffion of Chri; it is
likewife called Hostia an Hoft,' inafmuch as it containeth Chrt{himfelf , who is Hoffia falura-
risy Ephef. V.- es Ce : . a .
¢ Here is a Reprefentative, ot Commemorative, and Rarticipated.Sacrifice of the: Paffjon of Chrift,:
the Tris: Sacrifice, that is paft ; and-hete is an Euchariftical Sacrifice ; but foran External proper
here is not one word; “And
therefore this isa new conceipt of latter men, fince 7) homas his time, unknown to him, and ameet.,
Noyellifm. Arid the cure is.as bad as the Difeafé :- Though Thomas gives no other reafons,’ why - ic °
is.calleda facrifice, yet ( fay they.)-Thonasdenieth it not. For, thit is plainly to confeffe that this ;
is but a patch added to Antiquity... And yec when he faith, it isa Reprefentative or Commemora-'
tive Sacrifice reffelln. prateritiy in refpect of chat which is paft, that is, the Paffion of Chrift, which
was the true Sacrifice, he doth deny by confequence, ‘that it is the true-acrifice ic. felf: which is paft:
And if Chrift be facrificed daily.in the Encharift,- according to the Allion of ‘Sacrifice, and it to,”
bione and the fame! facrifice offered by Chrifton the Croffe ; and the Prief at the Altar > then:
canjt not be a‘Reprefentation of that facrifice whith ts ‘paft, becaufe it is one and the fame facrifice .
and, action prefent.
« Therefore Saint Pant ‘proceeds in the XV. Verles-By hini therefore let ws offer the facrifice of *
praife to God. continually, that is, the. fruit of-our lips giving thanks to His Name. ~ Let. ws offer up ‘
to GOD 3 Chriftianschén have an offering : and let us offer up ‘to. GOD continually this is the’
Chri hto the daily facrifice of the Fewes,. And»
this, facrifice of: pra‘fe and thanks may. well be underltood the Excharilf, in which we chiefly praife
and thank God for this his chief and ‘great bleffing- of ‘our‘Redemption, And this andall other”
Sacrifices of the.Church external or fpirirual muft bz offered up and accepted: per Iefum, in, bys —
and chrough Chrift, .S, Pax/ faith not, Jpfum offeramus, Lecus offer: Him: (that‘is )Chrift’; bu ”
C ! Whom only we and our facrifice are accepted, “And.
Rom..XIE.. Ojferte corpora, Offer ‘your bedies living facrifices,
\
é a Les “es, holy and acceptable to God, which ts”
your veafonable fervice x Itis not Corpore fine animisy not bodies wi
dies without foules, For in them with-
- and this is mans *reafmnable fervice; all,elfe. .
is without reafon. , And.S, Peter (the firlt Pope-as they reckon him; who I am’aifured hid ‘infal- |
libilicy ) faich I Per. 1L. Vy Te alfoas Lively ftones are built up a [piritual boxfe, and holy Priefthood, —
item, by JE sus .Cirt.s. 3...
8. (C Ver, that to this end God -béoat- ss by his Word. of --
truth, that.we might be. primitie creaturarim:: not offer to‘ God ‘the fir fruits of our fields or ~
catfel,| bur that wemight offer up our felves.as prft fruits y all 1
to God.’ So all the ‘sfferings of the...
. Church are the Church it fel€3 and Chri the Head offered on © afirines oft
raturale; his: ‘Be his ;.
foul and fleth fora facrifice ; for the ranfom. and price of ‘our finne,’ thereby eae con Ren ,
demption, Heb.10.11, and by this-one offering- He perfefted for ever ‘thens th at aré favtbifed,
Verlet3.. Neithet doth Chritt there:( that is-) in heaven where bé now appearein ch »
of Goi, offer often, or any moré for us; but this one 5 thereis apprdring' but no offering. And
the, Apottle..gixes the reafon. of it, For then he mutt’ have oftes:/ufered fined the foundstion of”
ra oe Enno pe ° the
Ow appearsin the prefence ~ -