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 LITURGY OF CONSTANTINOPLE, G. C. see p. 195.

APOSTOLIC LITURGY, L. C. see p. 196.

ROMAN LITURGY, L. C. see p. 197.

SYRIAC LITURGY, G. C. see p. 198.

LITURGY OF THE NESTORIANS, G. C. see p. 199.

LITURGY OF THEODORUS, G. C. see p. 200.

LITURGY OF NESTORIUS, G. C. see p. 200.

COPTIC LITURGY OF ST. BASIL, G. C. see p. 201.

ALEXANDRIAN LITURGY OF ST. BASIL, G. C. see p. 202.

COPTIC LITURGY OF ST. GREGORY, G. C. see p. 203.

ALEXANDRIAN LITURGY OF ST. GREGORY, G. C. see p. 204.

COPTIC LITURGY OF ST. CYRIL, G. C. see p. 204.

“ Because under the former testament, as the Apostle Paul witnesses, (Heb. vii. ix. x.) on account of the weakness of the Levitical priesthood, there was no consummation, it became necessary-God so ordaining it—that another Priest according to the order of Melchisedec, should arise, our Lord Jesus Christ, who might be able to consummate all that were to be sanctified, and perfect them. Wherefore, this our Lord and God, although he was about to offer himself once, on the altar of the cross, to his Father, that on it he might operate our eternal redemption; yet, because, by death, his Priesthood was not to cease, he, at his last supper, the same night in which he was betrayed, (1 Cor. xi.) that he might leave to his Church a visible Sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody Sacrifice, once to be completed on the cross, might be represented; and its memory might continue to the end of time; and its salutary virtue be applied to the remission of those sins which we daily commit—declaring himself to be the appointed Priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec : he offered