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 ''is that Sacrifice commemorated in this of the altar by a distinction of the symbols. Jesus, therefore, is here given not only to us, but for us; and the Church is thereby enriched with a true, proper, and propitiatory Sacrifice, usually termed the Mass : propitiatory, we say, because representing, in a lively manner, the passion and death of our Lord, it is peculiarly pleasing to our eternal Father, and thus more effectually applies to us the all-sufficient merits of the Sacrifice of the cross.''

As the bloody Sacrifices, ordained by the Jewish law, are understood to have prefigured the Sacrifice, which the Redeemer of mankind was once to offer on the cross, by the effusion of his blood; so do we believe, that the unbloody offerings of the same law, but much more than these, the bread and wine, which Melchisedec, “the Priest of the most high God," presented to Abraham, (Gen. xiv.) were a type or figure of that unbloody Sacrifice, which Christ, the Priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec, (Ps. cix) would continue to offer, through all ages, under the symbols or species of bread and wine.

Malach. i. 10, 11, “I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of Hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.- For from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered to my name, and a clean offering.”—Matt. xxvi. 28. “This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”—Mark xiv. 24. “This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many."- Luke xxii. 19. “ This is my body that is given for you: Do this for commemoration of me:"-20. “This is the chalice, the New