The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-02-14


go We have only to look the character Of the priest
hood Of helchissdek, and as II the Almighty God had
himself written for the purpose OF enabling us 70 OK
hibr aad produce this proof have hut solitary
passage IN The OH Testament, relative to Melchsedek
AMI that IL 10 the ilth chapter Of the Book OF Genesis
whore We read, And Mslchiseiek. King Of salem
the Most High God and blessed" Here Is the only pas
sage That we h1d in the Old Tesla nent relative 20
priests according 10 the order Of Melchsedek and II 10
the only that require show the character OF the
priesthood and his sacrifice.
u Chris, priest. according to the order Of Melch
sefek we mus, enquire did be perform his ofhce and
the sacrifice he offered mp before told you tina,
was sacrifice ofbread aud WINS peculiar sacrifice
now has our Saviour offered up this peculiar sncrdce
this sacrifice Of bread and wine Certainly he has
Evenh de did not hud these characteristics recorded In
them record Look in the writings OF Mathe w. Luke
and Mark aud you will read that divine Saviour the
lost supper after having performed the sacrifice tho old
law took bread Sand blessing it, gave II to his disciples
say ing this Is body, which given for you;S OF
US St Paul says This is body, which Is broken oi
you TINS term cannot 10 applied to the breaking OF
his body on the cross, because IN positively known
that there was not bone OF Savior broken on the
cross in fuhment ofthe prophecy that IL should not be
staid the impous hand which about TO break the
body Of our Divine Savior The bodies of those who
suffered on the cross with Christ broken but ths
Of our divine Savior hottest the prophecy should
be fulfilled Thus in giving the bread and wine he gave
asan Offering ofhis body not In the way he offered W
on the cross consequently you cannot conound the
6ce OF this last with that the There Their.
was no breaking Of the body but at last supper the
sacrifice made according the order OF Melchse.
dck, where the body broken TO the eye only be.
Cause the bread was broken aud distributed to the asc
pies. In like manner he took the chalce and blessing
blood )" or ST Luke has it, 1.-The cup which poured
out for you" On the the cup offered up
1T WIS the life blood from the Of the fiod-n.n
hns ar which offered up; but the last supper the
contents oi tho vup offered gp-hus listing
tho form of sacrifice ia the last supper from that oil
bloody sacrifice on the cross Here then. we zee the
DlNiDc StviOf as pflSst according to order
OF "elchSedek, offer up riiice, but his sacrifice
as superior to that Of Neichisedek ms Ia.
high priest was superior 10 Nechiseek he beiue
bot God and man, and Melchised,k but a mere man
Moreover Jesus Oh .s' - priest 10 according
the order OF Mechisedek and though invisible 10
eyes must yet continue to Offer up crihcs. And how
does he do III lilo does It by means OF the ministry
whom he commanded TO do it say ing" This do 10 re
tves-you constitute priests Of the law you ! sp
point ~ media,ors between God and you appoint
to ossr up the same oblaons do this in
OF me" This ~ the COMM sion given tho apostles
to DO perpstusted to the end Of time and which
Is to subsst long there human being on the face
oil the earth for whose salvation the blood Of the God
man has been shed And The priesthood whom
God established IL to be IN like manner continued
perDetuated
This is an outline my beloved brethren, of what
SAID IN my last address TO you told you that when
again appeared before you, that woui show that the
worship of the Catholic church at the present day IL In
perfect accordance with the language and doctrines
the primitive church. Now this subject my beloved
brethren is important that must ask your uadyi
AS Christianity is revelation Vi divine trutn-Immu
table and interchangeable, 1t must be the same In the
nineteenth century "a 1t was when 1t was first
established Ii It is changed in it's principles-if iis
features are modihed is pure revelations dstort
ed-f, in other words, there is any reor in
system OF christianity II do not correspond in overy
respect with the Christianity Of primitive times 1t no.
the system of religion established by divine savior
We must hnd that the dosmas of the Christians OF the
present day the the dogmas and worship OF
the primitive Christians. That is that as the primitive
Christians had an altar for ajoring Goda they had
h..hsl
made grest-as they had priesthood for oRering up
sacrhces-so must find the present DAY among
because no oher could be substituted. Wa must nnd
the same priesthood and the sacrifice because
but rod could establish others AMI lie is unch ngsbe
so then the question turns this-Have we, by the
evidence OF the ancient fathers proof that the passages
winch we recognise In the Holy Scriptures contain
language and doctrines OF our holy religion with regard
to incarnation to original SIM the necessity Of baptism,
&c and those doctrines the those that
pose the system o, Christianity in modern times The
language and doctrines OF the day must he 10
cofdance with those OF the primitive church. else the
church OF the present day is not the primitive church
know that great effort has been made to show
that many Of the primitive fathers were men
capable OF swerving from the truth but let no,
mistake the point be driven from the truth by these
accusations think you will understand the difference
between witnesses bearing testimony of fact, ani
the same individuals in the relations OF life. la court
o. justice wnes to tell the truth and ii the
court is satisfied that he is honest man, his testimony
10 credited without regard to his relations in life The
court looks at his testimony witness only aud ia the
tive fathers Our dissenting brethren say that look
on those primitive fathers VINO proclaimed Chris
tanity to us according to their caprcs TSis Is not
our doctrino-this Is not the faith of the caiho-
les We look on tho language Of The primitive
fathers as the echo only Of Christ nifty. Those
fathers were bishops, priests aud doctors in the
church-they were distinguished for tseir learn.
ng-they were prosecuted and suffered msrtyrdom for
the glorious principles they espoused Of the
by those to whom ii addressed The testimony of
tho fathers in Constan'nople, for instance,
the testimony OF the church in Constaoia, and the
testimony of all the fathers collected together
Is believed by the whole Christian world Tbis
is tho view stho Catholics take OF Tradition Now II
you we're desired to prove fact, how you do II
Would you not say, sir, am sure OF II, because
have the evidence Of it and must no, every fact he
by testimony prove from the Il stmony Of
those who received it," Precisely so; but tina, ira
dtion Ourdissenting brethren would be shocked
term, buthow can they prove that the scriptures are
true by internal evidence They cannot DO except by
external eydence and the only external evidence they
can furnish, is tradition" How will any man tell me
the difference between novel aud a history, by In.
ternal evidence Now let my dissenting bre,htsn
admit that this 10 tradition. and let seek for trad
ton TO prove the existence Of this external scr6ce IN
primitive times There are two passages relating TO
sacrifices OF tue new law, IRON Malachi, and the
otner 70 the existence Of priests according the
order OF nisedek, who we're to prepare sschces
Now let uss what the athera say in reference to t
NJ Justin was originally avery learned man and became
a ChrstsD iwsa song to call him laVy err tauahter
but ne became Christian. hope however that Insny
lawyers OF tbs present day CnriSuans lie became
CHRISTIAN as SAID, aud IN defence oil Christianity wrote
two books which re presented 10 the Emperor He al
wrote dialogue, IN winch he proves Christianity an op
position 10 toe Jews After his eonveTs on he was snn
mohed before the tyrant, VINO Commanded him to offer
up saclhce 10 alse gods which he refused ana ter
objectins 10 do no, was immolsted Hare then
we nave evidence Of one of the ancient fathers
who suAied msr,yrdom. After referring to the sacri.
noes OF the Old law, 81 Justin says -" We offer 20
hln wei pleasing and clean victims Those victims Le
accepts from his own pricsls alone. Wherefore, show.
NV preference 70 oil those who through his name, offer