411M11=NIMIIIII 464 YE R S F 4. .rod debebat , Abraham Deo, folvit in ;wanton atelchifedec. Decimarum er- gofalutione, fe ininorempro- fePs in tieb.7.5,:8.9. AdTO pw,ur. v Lai('Talc ya- plothaes b. v. Chi Olt. ThePne hoodofChrift. ....NOIMMINION 10. VMMINVRIPPIRE love, and Co any man may blefreanotherby way of eu- precationor w61 vvifhing : The Ileffingof the Lord bee uponyou,weNileyou in thenameoftheLord,Pfal.129.1?,... the other Aottoritativa, as a King, a Priefl, anextraordi- nary fupeiiour and publike perfon, by a way of office, and to the purpofe ofeffeaing, 4tid real! conveying the bleffing it felfe detired : without all contradiEtion, faith the Apofile, the Ile is bleffedofthegreater, Hehr. 7.7, and filch was this of Metchiredek, Benedielloobjigiuns, a kale, affurance,and effeauall confirmationof the pro_ mile beforemade, gen.I 2.2,3. Sixthly, in what manner he received Tithes ? I an- fwer with Calvin, thathe had 1114 decinsarton, and re- ceived themas teflifications of homage, duty, and obe- dience fromAbraham; for the Apofile ufeth it as argu- ment to provehis greatnes above Abraham, whichcould beno argument in thecafe of pure gift. Since gifts, qua- toms gifts, though they prove not a general' inferioritie in him that receives them, vet they prove that in that cafe there is fomething which may be imputed, and which defervesacknowledgement. But in this particular all the acknowledgementsare from Abraham to Mdchifidek. Betides, nothing was here by Abrahamor Melchifedek done after an arbitrarymanner, but Extraerdinarie fpi- ritus offiats ce,.. exefficio,on both fides, as learned Came- ron hath obferved. Lafily, in what fenfe hee was .:72.1.41P and dpia4P, &c. without father, mother, or genealogic ? I anfwer with i Chryfonome, that it is not meant literally and firi6fly ; si 1 but onely the Scripture takes notice of him as an extra- I i ordinary man, without fignifying his line, beginning, end, or race, (as Tsberists fail ofRufam,thathe was He- ineex fe natio) that fo he might be the fitter to typifie Chrifis perfon and excellencie in whom thofe things were really true, which areonely q$19ild NOS, fpoken of the type, of whofe beginning, end, or parentage, wee neither
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