praise, and prayers of intercession to God with the highest pomp-like celebrity of words; I say, to see and hear all this would make an uninitiated heathen conclude that the bread and wine were an offering, the whole Eucharistic action a sacrificial mystery, the eating and drinking the sanctified elements a sacrificial banquet, and the liturg who administered a priest.”—_Hickes’s_ “_Priesthood Asserted_,” _Library of Anglo.-Cath. Theol._, _Oxford_, vol. ii. p. 105–7. {103} The scantiness of statements in the Articles, as to the inspiration of Holy Scripture, may illustrate this. Had it been possible to foresee the boldness of unbelief which these days have brought to light on this subject, or had our Reformers been now drawing up the Articles, we may feel very certain they would not have been content to leave that matter as it there stands. But they were engaged with practical errors of their own day, and not in stating all dogmatic truth upon other points. Many things were so fully assumed to be true as to need no assertion of their truth. {104} 1 Cor. xi. 26. {106} Heb. vii. 25. {107} Mede’s “Christian Sacrifice,” lib. ii. cap. 4, quoted in Carter, p. 65. {108} Cardwell’s “Documentary Annals,” chap. vii, prop. 2. {109} Carter, p. 25, note 1. {110} Hickes’s Treatises, vol. ii. pp. 183, 184. {111a} Bramhall’s “Protestant Ordination Vindicated.” Discourse vii. 3. {111b} St. Jerome, adv. Lucif. c. 8. Carter, pp. 22, 23. {111c} James i. 17. {111d} Ps. xliv. 3. {111e} Ps. cxv. 1. {114} Acts iii. 12. {118} Carter, p. 28. {123a} Hickes’ “Christian Priesthood Asserted,” pp. 184, 185. {123b} Rom. xi. 20. {125a} 1 Sam. ix. 11–13. {125b} 1 Kings viii. 62–66. {125c} 2 Kings xxiii. 22. {125d} “But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.” (Numb. ix. 13.) {129} St. John vi. 53. {131a} Heb. viii. 1. {131b} Mal. i. 11. {132} Zech. xiv. 7. {133} Ps. lxxx. 19. {135} The following sermon, although perhaps in strictness hardly one of this course, was preached almost immediately after the others, and, in some measure, as a sequel to them. It is evidently not unconnected with their subject, inasmuch as the whole Doctrine of the Priesthood,—Christ our High Priest, through His Manhood “able to be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,” and the sacerdotal powers derived from Him to “the ministers and stewards of His mysteries,”—is intimately related to, and dependent upon, the doctrine of the Incarnation. {136} Col. ii. 9. {137a} Acts xx. 28. {137b} Ephes. i. 7. {137c} Heb. ix. 12. {138} 2 St. Peter ii. 1. {139a} St. John xvii. 2. {139b} 1 Cor. ii. 8. {139c} Acts xx. 28. {139d} “Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles,” by E. Harold, Lord Bishop of Ely, Art. II. p. 69.