himself constituted a priest for ever, according to the altar of the cross unto God the Father, there to effect, might consummate, and lead to what is perfect, as the order of Melchisedech, our Lord Jesus Christ, who many as were to be sanctified. Hence, our God and trayed, that he might leave to his own beloved spouse order of Melchisedech, he offered up to God the Father the memory thereof remain even unto the end of the his Apostles, whom he then constituted priests of the accomplished on the cross, might be represented, and through his death, an eternal redemption ; yet, because the church, a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of successors in the priesthood to make this offering even delivered his own body and blood to be received by as the Catholic Church has always understood and man requires, whereby that bloody sacrifice, once to be in the Last Supper, on the night in which he was be- memoBation of me, he commanded them and their that his priesthood was not to perish with his death, New Testament ; and by those words, Do this in com- INSTITUTION OF THE EUCHARIST 35 world, and its salutary virtue be applied to the re- his own body and blood under the species of bread and wine ; and under the symbols of those same things, he Lord, though he was about to offer himself once on the mission of those sins which we daily commit, declaring ordaining, that another priest should rise, according to