Mof. If Priesthood is no facrament, the Jewish and chriftian covenants are void. Sacred chas racter, which every true believer will fland firm

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Boy. What faith the Scriptures?

Mof. Here is the Sacred character of our Priesthood, Leviticus 8th chapter.

The Lord fpake unto Moses, Take Aaron and his fons, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the fin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread; and Mofes faid to the Congregation, This is the thing the Lord commands to be done, And Mofes wafbed Aaron and his fons with water, and he put upon him the coat, and girded him with a girdle, and cloathed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him, and he girded him with the curious gir dle of the ephod, and bound it on him therewith; and he put the breaft plate on him, he put in the breaft-plate the Urim and Thummim, and he put the Mitre upon his head, and on the front the golden plate the holy crown; and Mofes took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle, and all that was therein, and fanctified them, and he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed, him to fanctify him; and Mofes brought Aaron's fons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; and he brought the bullock for the fin-offering: and Aaron and his fons laid their hands upon the head of the bul lock, and he flew it: and Moles took the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about

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with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar and fanctified it: to make a reconciliation on it, &c. to Verse 22. And he brought the other ram, the ram of confecration, and Aaron and his fons laid their hands upon his head. And he flew it. And Mofes took of the blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on his right thumb, and upon his great toe of his right foot. And he brought Aaron's fons, and he put of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and upon their right thumbs, and upon their right great toes. And Mofes fprinkled the blood upon the altar round about, &c. to Verfe go. And Mofes took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and fprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his fons and upon their garments. And fanctified Aaron and his garments, and his fons with their garments. And you fhall not go out of the tabernacle for feven days, until the days of your confecration be at an end. After which confecration, it appears in the next chapter, Aaron and his fons were qualified, and did from thence offer facrifice to the Lord. And the last eight verfes proves the power and efficacy of the Sacred character of the Priesthood.

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And Aaron lifted up his hands towards the people, and bleffed them, and came down from offering of the fin-offering, and the burnt-offering, and peace-offering. And Mofes and Aaron -went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out and bleffed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. And there

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came a fire from before the Lord, and confamed upon the altar the barnt-offering, and the fat: which, when all the people faw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

Luth. The Scripture you quote relates to the Jewish Priesthood, which neither Jew or Chrif tian gainfays; but we reject the Chriftian Priefthood, which is all a craft. Chrift put an end to facrifice, when he offered himself on the cross an atonement for fin, as St. Paul obferves, and that he dies no more; he has made the neceffary reconciliatory facrifice or offering for the redemption of man; and whatever is pretended more, is vain, frivolous, and of no merit. Search, and be convinced; (gives his Common Prayer-Book to Mofes; here is not the mark of Prieft in the whole book; it contains many things.

Mof. The order for the administration of the Lord's Supper, or holy communion. The Table, at the communion-time, having a fair white linen cloth upon it, fhall ftand in the body of the Church, or in the Chancel, where Morning Prayer and Evening are appointed to be faid. And the Priest standing at the north fide of the Table thall fay the Lord's Prayer, with the Collect following, the people kneeling, &c. The Prieft fhall then upon the Table place fo much bread and wine as fufficient, then shall fay. Let us pray for the whole Church militant, &c.

Give Grace, O heavenly Father, to all Bishops and Curates, that they may both by their life. and doctrine fet forth thy true and lively word, and rightly and duly adminifter thy holy facra

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ments. Who goeth a warfare at any time of ins own coft? Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? Do you not know that they who minifter about holy things, live of the facrifice? And they who wait at the Altar, are partakers with the Altar, &c.

Luth, Prieft, Altar, and Sacrifice, the three effentials comprifing the full worship, and facred character and duty of Prielthood. You have done me great honour; I never knew or confidered myself in that facred and exalted elevation, until your Reverence have taught me, from my own book. This fhew's the world, that the meeknels and humility of the Gospel reigns in the English Hierarchy. We preach glad tidings to ail, retaining nothing to ourfelves. I am like One Youled from a lethargy. From a fqueezed and narrow education, which our English Clergy imbibe from our early inftructions, we remain compieffed, frangers and fojourners to our own nobility; so that we become exclaimers and murderers of our own caufe and felves. And this why? because truly the Pope and Roman Catho lic Priesthood claim this honour and dignity, having exerciled it, as the Fathers of the firft ages, with the above quotations from St. Paul, and others confirm.

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Then fhall the Prieft, kneeling down at the Lord's Table, fay, in the name of all them that fhall receive the communion, the prayer following. We do not prefume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trufting in our own

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fighteoufaefs, but in thy manifold and great merWe are not worthy fo much as to gather the crumbs, under, thy Table. But thou art the fame Lord, whofe property is always to have mercy; grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jefus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our finful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our fouls washed through his molt precious blood, and that wẹ may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen,

When the Prieft, ftanding before the Table, hath so ordered the bread and wine, that he may with more readinefs and decency break the bread before the people, and take the cup into his hands, he fhall fay the prayer of confecration, as followeth. Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who of thy tender mercy didft give thine only Son Jefus Chrift to fuffer death upon the crois for our redemption, who made there (by his own oblation of himself once, offered) a full, perfect, and fufficient facrifice, oblation and fatisfaction for the Lus of the whole world, and did inftitute, and in his holy Gospel command us to continue a perpetual memorial of his precious death, until his coming again; Hear us, O merciful Father, we mot humbly befeech thee, and grant that, we receiving these thy creatures of bread and wine, according to thy Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift's holy inflitution, in remembrance of his death and paffion, may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood: Who in the fame night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks,

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