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 c. xxii. T. vii. p. 435.-“This eating and drinking, of which the wise man speaks, (Eccles. ïïi.) relate to the participation of this table, which the Mediator of the new covenant, the Priest according to the order of Melchisedec, offers of his body and blood. This Sacrifice has succeeded to all those of the ancient covenant, which were offered, as the shadows of this that was to come.” Ibid. L. xvii. c. xx. p. 484.-" The Prophet Malachy foretelling the Church, which we now behold propagated by Christ, in the person of God, thus manifestly speaks to the Jews: I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord, 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. (Malach 1.) Since then we behold this Sacrifice, in every place, offered to God by the Priesthood of Christ, according to the order of Melchisedec; and the Jews cannot deny, that their Sacrifices have ceased, why do they still look for another Christ? Ibid. L. xviii. c. xxxv. p. 517.

Speaking afterwards in reply to those who asked, why miracles were not then wrought: he recounts many to most of which he was himself a witness, and among them relates that the property of a great man, whom he names, having been much troubled by wicked spirits, he requested, that,“ in my absence, some of the Priests would go, and by their prayers, remove the evil. One of them went; offered there the Sacrifice of the body of Christ, praying that the mischief might cease: and, by the mercy of God, it instantly ceased.” Ibid. p.666.—“The Hebrews, in the victims which they offered to God, in many and various ways, as became so great a subject, prefigured the future victim, which Christ has