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By these wordes yese, that where as the prestes in ye old law offred sacryfyces for the people and that of dyuerse […] des, as appereth in Leuitici and Numeri and other plac[…]s of holy scrypture / in stede of all whyche sacryfyces Cryste hath in his new law instytuted one onely sacryfyce, his own blessed bodye and blood to be offered vp to his father for his people by the handes of the preest in forme of brede & wy[…]ne / of whych holy offerynge in the masse nowe, the offerynge of Melchisedech that offred bred and wyne,¹ was a solemne figure: Tyndale telleth vs here that bycause Crist is a preste for euer, and that all we be prestes thorow hym man & woman / ye muste vnderstande we nede therfore he saythe no more of any such preste on erth, that sholde be a meane betwene god and the people, to offer vp any sacryfyce to god for the people. For he sayth farther, that Cryste hath […] vs in to the inner tēple wythin the veyle and vnto the mercy stole of god, and […] coupled vs vnto god / where we offer euery man for hym selfe the desyres and petycyons of his herte / and do sacryfyce and kyll the lustes and appetytes of his fleshe, wyth prayour, fastynge, and all maner of gol[…]y lyuynge.