The PrieflhoodofChril 46; 41almsO ler*** r/Vemil.ONI.Mer. to Sacrificebread andmine, as aType ofthe Eucharift. I 4. will not Cal into fo tedious a controverfie , as no way <lending toedification, and infinite litigations there have been between the parts already about it. In one word; i Wee grant that the Ancients doe frequently make it 4 Type ofthe Emcharsft but onely by way ofallufion , not G141'. Phefrilag. ofliterallprediaion ' orfiriaprefiguration. as that,out of sack; Pig Egypt have I called my Sonne , and in Rama was there a voyce heard,which were literally and hiflorically true ' inanother fenfe , arc yet byway of allufion applied by the Evangelift unto the Hifiory of Chrift, ciliattb.2.1 5. But wee maynote; firfi , it is not Saerificavit, but Lotornp:4 ca. Protmlit,hee brought it forth, he did not offerit up. Se- tato. condly, hebrought it forth to 'Abrahams as es Prince to entertainshim after his conqueft, as Iofephme, and from him Cajetam underfland it ; not as a Priefi to God. Thirdly, hee, ifhee did offer,heoffered bread and wine truely,thefemen,onely the lying fhapes thereof,andnot bread and wine it fclfe which they fay arc tranfubflan- tiated intoanother thing. Fourthly, the Priefl-hood of Melchifedekas Type, andofChrift as the fubflance,was dmegiihifr, a Priefthood -which couldnot paffe unto any other either as fliccefforor vicar to one or theother, and it was onely by divine and immediateun&ion ; but the Papifts make themfclves Priefis by humane andecclefi- aflicall ordination tooffer that which they fay Melchi- fedekoffered ; and by that manesmoll infolentlymake themfclves either fucceffors,or vicars,or fharers,and co partners and workers together with him and his Anti- type , Chrft Iefus, in the effices offucha Priefthoodas was totally tincommunicable,and intranfient,Heb.7.24. and famatt facrikgioaly rob himof that honor which hee bath affumed to hmfelfe as his peculiar office. Fahly,vvhat kif,cleofbleffing it was wherewith Mel. chiredekblefled ribr4tium ? F this tafwer, that'there isa twofold Benedattion., The one Cboitottsva f ve,
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