þ That this Prieflþozd was fo altered, he proves by Chriſt's being f another Tribe than Levis This 15 a Periphrajts deſcribing the Pric't after Melchiſed»c's Order. Of whom was thu {id in PſU. 110. 4. but of Clift, God-37an, the Royal High Prieft of, God, Met. 21. 42. He, as to his Humane Nature, deſcended of the Trive of 7u- au', and not of Lev? ; and fo the 4rontc:! Pitefthnod was ended by tim, Chay. 2. 14. Gen. 49. 10. f{ Of which Tribe none was a Prieft whoſe work was to afteud the Altar, and offer Sacrifnce ; it any of another 7;be pretended to, or would uſurp it, God c:ther ſmote them, as Vz77an, 2 Chrin. 25,18, or deſtroyed them as thoſe Re- bels, N15. 15. 1, 2, 4, 22, to 36, neither was the Prieſthood hereby aade tr1b44), or continued in any ſuch Tribe as in Levi, but conft- ned to our Lord only, not becauſe he deſcended of Judah, but ex- traordinarily: feleted of God out or it to dilcharge it.
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dience or Penalty ; and this is ſo diſannulled of the Law-maker God himſelf, by ſetting up the Goſpel by his Son Prieſt, which is moſt certainly true. y For the Moſaical Covenant and Law wanted ſtrength to bring about what the Jews ſought by it, and wanted g-od Fruit to them who made their boaſt of it, both which weak. neſs and unprofitableneſs aroſe from the Hebrews abuſe of it, expe- &ing Expiation and Sandifcation by it, without minding the Pro- miſe which preceded it, 430 years, to which it ſhould have led then; and by 1ts neglect proved ſo fatal to them. For they would be ju- ſtified and ſaved by an external Obedience to this Law, without any regard to Chriſt and his Sacrifice, by whom alone it could be attain- ed,Gal.3.17. to 27. It was ſtrong and profitable to the end for which God made it to lead to Chriſt, but weak and unprofitable to juſtife or ſanftifie them without him, which was the end they uſe it for, or
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* Mat.1.3. rather abuſed it, 19 For * the law made nothing perteCt 2, + but * ag,
the bringing in of a better hope d:d 42 : by the which 35.
14 For zt rs evident that * vur Lord iprang out of Judah 7, of which tribe Moles ipake nothuig Con- cerning priefthood 7. |
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1m The proof of this chanze of the Tribe, and of what Tribe he was, was undeniably evident to theſe Hebrews from their own Ge- ncalozies, and the Roman Cenſe and Enrolment of him. The Pro- vidence of God ordering this, that it might be univerſally known that he was David's Seed, as well as Abraham's, and as called by his Name, Ez:k, 34.23,24. and 37. 24, 25- Our Lord was God-Man, Lord Mediator, Pſal. 110. 1, 4. Hatth. 22. 42,45. He was, as to his Humanity, born of the Trive of Zudah, as his Genealogy by his Mother doth evince, Lube 3. 33. and the concomitant evidence of the Roman Rolls, in which his Name was Regiftred and kept in their Archives above an Ace after his Aſcenſion. = No Man of which Tribe was ſo deiizned by God, or fo revealed to have the Royal Pricſthood, hut himielt. None of them having any Right to it, as they could prove out of nſec's Writing ;, and the Rule of Prictt- hood is to be found there, and no where elſe : So that a Negative
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0 The Chanze and Abolicion of the Levitical Prieſthood, and Law, that the perietiaz one of Chriſt might ſucceed, 1s not only clearly repreſented to the underſtanding of all, that they aflent to it, but it ;s far more evident from the Eternity of this Prieſthood's Conſtt- tution, as is proved ver. 16, Et: if 184 Particle vehemently ailerting, as in torm of ſwearing, and not doubting, and theretore rendered
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7 The proof of this weakneſs and unprofitableneſs of the La is —_ » its Imperfe&ion ; it had no ſupernatural moral power to juſtifie cr FOr, tu i neither did it}?
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to Salvation whatever was expetted by it, Chap. 9. 9. and 10. 1, 2. a & But, ſhewsthe oppoſition of Hope to the Law, though the Law could not ferfe& any, yet the better Hope, the Goſpel-Law, promul- gated to, and received by them, could perfe& them. "Eraorzr,,y Superindudfion, 1. e. 1t was brought in, and put in force aſter the le- gal Covenant expired, and brought in to abohſh that, fo as by it, it was repealed and abrozated. The Goſpel-Law 1s filed better Hype, becauſe 1t 1s conveying better Promiſes, Chap. 8. 6. which give firm and certain Hope of Sinners perfettion by it, viz. their Injoyment of Juſtification, SanCification, and eternal Life. This Hope wrought by the Holy Ghoſt in their Hearts, enableth them to obey the Got. pel, and ſeals the Promiſes to them. And by this they b have free acceſs to God, as Chap. 4. 14, 16. compare Chap. 10. ig. to 23. and Rom, 5. 1, 2. not only to Worſtip him, bur to receive the Bleiſing: of the Covenant from him, without fear of diſpleating him, or be- ing conſumed by him, as under the Law, but in the greateſt conn. dence of pleaſing him in Jeſus Chrift, of having Communion with him, and of being bleſſed in the Enjoyment of him tor ever . Sec Chap. 12.18, to 22. and compare vey. 22, to 25. with them.
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