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There are three particularly obnoxious elements in these statements of the Council of Trent and subsequent papal encyclicals, which need to be clarified. The implications are that the sacrifice of the mass, being a daily though unbloody immolation of Christ, (1) is distinct from his “bloody” sacrifice on the cross, and supplementary to it, (2) is made by human priests and (3) is “truly propitiatory.” By contrast, the Reformers insisted, as we must, that the sacrifice of Christ (1) took place once for all on the cross (so that human beings cannot be reenacted or supplemented in any way), (2) was made by himself (so that human beings cannot make it or share in making it), and (3) was a perfect satisfaction for sin (so that any mention of additional propitiatory sacrifices is gravely derogatory to it).
The Cross of Christ - John Stott
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