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A18567	The exaltation of the kingdome and priesthood of Christ In certaine sermons vpon the 110. Psalme: preached in the Cathedrall Church and city of Worcester, in the time of Christmasse: anno Domini: 1596. By Rob. Abbot, doctor of Diuinitie, sometime felow of Baliol Colledge in Oxford.	Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618.	1601 (1601)	STC 51; ESTC S115231	83,503	102

with you my peace I giue vnto you whose p Eph. 2 17. preaching was peace both to far and neere q Col 1.20 by whom the father hath reconciled all things to himselfe and set at peace both the things in heauen and the things in earth by the bloud of his crosse So that vnder the regiment of this king we may boldly say a Eth. 2.14 He is our peace b R●m 5.1 being iustified by faith we haue peace towards God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Furthermore as Melchisedec so Iesus Christ is the priest of the most highest God And this on the one part the holy ghost mentioneth indefinitely that Melchisedec was the priest of the most high God but what was the ceremonie of his priesthood or what sacrifice he offered he expresseth not and therefore for vs to determine any thing thereof is but rashnesse neither may we straine the comparison further then the word of God giueth vs way and warrant so to do The papists falsly resolue of the sacrifice of Melchisedec 18 The papists take vpon them to resolue out of the storie of Moses what the sacrifice of Melchisedec was and by a corrupt and false translation auouch that c Gen. 14.18 hee offered bread and wine which they say was a figure of their masse and woulde thereby prooue that in their masse is a verie reall and actuall sacrifice done of the verie body and bloud of Iesus Christ seruing to purchase forgiuenesse of sinnes both for quicke and dead But the premisses are to short to inferre a conclusion so large and it is no argument to say Melchisedec offered bread and wine therefore Christ hath appointed vs to offer a sacrifice of his very body and bloud in the likenesse and forme of bread and wine For to yeeld them their owne translation what gaine they thereby if wee say that Melchisedec offered these things to Abraham by way of curtesie not to God by way of mysterie And heereunto in part S. Ambrose leadeth vs saying that d Ambrose de sacram li. 4. c. 3. Abraham came from the sight a conquerour and Melchisedec the priest mette him and offered vnto him bread and wine To offer bread and wine to Abraham was no matter of sacrifice vnto God But indeed the translation is false and their collection woorse neither is the Hebrew worde anie where in the Scriptures founde to signifie the offering of a sacrifice The true reading is Melchisedec brought foorth bread and wine And so c Mieron in quest Hebraicis in Genesim epist. ad Fuagrium Saint Ierome translateth and giueth the reason of bringing foorth bread and wine namely for the refreshing both of Abraham himselfe and also of his men of warre So saith f Ambros in epist●ad Heb. cap. 7. Saint Ambrose also in the very same wordes So other of the fathers reade the wordes and the verie euident truth thereof made Pagnine and Arias Montanus to translate the place as we doe though they were papists and earnestlie deuoted vnto the Church of Rome yea they vary heerein from the vulgar Latine translation which by the Councell of Trent they haue decreed to be onely authenticall and of authoritie in the Church It appeereth therefore that this place yeeldeth little helpe or life to their sacrifice of the masse and weake is that building that hath no better a foundation to rest vpon And surely woonder it were that the Apostle to the Hebrewes professing to drawe them forward from the a Heb. 6.1 first principles of Christian doctrine to the perfection thereof to that purpose treating precisely of the priesthood of Melchisedec and applying the same vnto Christ shoulde omit this matter of sacrifice if there were any matter in it and not so much as intimate any thing thereof which the papists woulde make vs beleeue is the chiefest and most important matter of all other But the silence of the holie Ghost condemneth their sentence of wilfulnesse and presumption The fathers make Melchisedecs bread and wine an allusion to the Lords supper but no proofe of the popish masse 19 Neither are they any whit benefited by that which the auncient fathers haue spoken of this matter who from this story of Melchisedec gathered indeed an allusion vnto the sacrament of the Lords supper but to no other purpose saue onely to shew that Melchisedec bringing foorth bread and wine did betoken that Christ should institute a sacrament in bread wine for a signe and remembrance of his body and bloud This Saint Hierom declareth when handling Christes institution of the sacrament he saith b Hieron in Mat. cap. 6. Christ taketh bread and goeth to the true sacrament of the passeouer that as Melchisedec the priest of the high God in presiguring of him offering bread and wine had done so he himselfe also might represent the trueth of his body and bloud No more did they conceiue done either before by Melchisedec or afterward by Christ but onely by bread and wine to represent the veritie and truth of his body and bloud But of the turning of the bread and wine into the verie body and bloud of Christ and offering the same really and substantially in sacrifice vnto GOD neither did Melchisedec prefigure any thing neither haue they affirmed any thing neither doeth the Scripture teach vs any thing that wee shoulde beleeue the same To bee short let vs not bee wise beyond that that God hath taught vs let it suffice vs for this point to beleeue that Melchisedec king of Salem was also the priest of the most high God and so both king and priest and therein aboue all other a most Iiuely figure of Iesus Christ If we go further we go in the dark and it is not likely that we should keepe the way 20 It is further to be added that as Melchisedec to Abraham so Christ to his hath pronounced a Mat. 5.3 Iu● 6.20 c. bleshing and b Eph. 1.3 in him God the father hath blessed vs with all spirituall blessings in heauenly things As Abraham paied tithes of all to Melchisedec the priest so we must pay and yeeld all to the high priest of our profession Iesus the sonne of God Melchisedec and Christ how vnderstood to be without father without mother c. Melchisedec is described without father without mother without beginning of daies or end of life which is not simply to be vnderstood but according to that maner as the scripture setteth him foorth vnto vs which so dainly bringeth him in as the priest of the high God meeting Abraham and blessing him and neither before nor after mentioneth him any more as if he were a man sodainly come from heauen and sodainely returned thither againe and not to be counted in the genealogie of the fathers For if we vnderstand it simplie and barely as it soundeth we cannot fit it vnto Iesus Christ who is not altogither without father or mother

and stronger the right hand then the left And therefore more commonly more fitly we vse the right parts then the left and finde them pliable and able to many matters to which the left doe vs little steede or none at all and we holde it a preposterous and vnorderly peruerting of natures course and an vnsightly thing when by euill custome a man hath his left hand more easie and readie for his vse then his right hand is And this strength of the right hand the holy Ghost hath relation vnto when to set foorth the speciall power of God exercised in any glorious worke it expresseth the same as performed by his e Psal 98.1 118.15.16 right hand as in infinite places of Scripture we may obserue In ciuill vse it is a matter of honor to be set at the right hand He that sitteth at the princes right hand is deemed to be next in honour to the Prince And in this regard f 1. King 2.19 Solomon sitting on his throne caused a seat to bee brought for his mother comming vnto him and set her at his right hand And vnto this alludeth that speech concerning the spouse Psal 45. a Psal 45.9 At thy right hand did stand the Queene in a vesture of gold c. Whereby is imported the singular honor that Christ doth vnto his spouse the church Whether way soeuer we vnderstand the right hand Christ sitteth at the right hand of God in all most full brightnesse of the glory of God and in all soueraignty of power and dominion ouer all creatures both in heauen and earth so that the godhead in the man Iesus Christ ruleth and gouerneth all things administreth guideth mainteineth the church purchased by his bloud and to be short executeth all iudgement by his hand Whereupon it is said Iohn 5. b Ioh. 5.27 The father hath giuen him power to execute iudgement in that he is the sonne of man and Act. 17. c Act. 17.31 He will iudge the world in righteousnesse by that man whom he hath appointed The man Iesus Christ saith Iohn 17. d Ioh. 17.5 Glorifie me O father with thine owne selfe with that glorie which I had with thee before the world was The man Iesus Christ saith Math. 28. e Math. 28.18 All power is giuen vnto me both in heauen and earth Of Iesus Christ concerning his manhood it is saide f Eph. 1.20.21 Ephes 1. God hath set him at his right hand in heauenly places farre aboue all principalitie and power and might and dominion and euerie name that is named not in this world onely but also in that that is to come hath made all things subiect vnder his feete c. And againe Phil. 2. g Phil. 2.9 God hath highly exalted him and hath giuen him a name aboue euerie name that at the name of Iesus euery knee should bowe both of things in heauen and things in earth and things vnder the earth c. Behold this is our Sauiour It is not without cause that we put our trust in him who is able to doe all things for vs because h Math. 11.27 Iohn 3.35 What comfort we haue by Christs sitting in heauen in our flesh all things are committed vnto him And thus hath God exalted and honoured our nature and flesh in the person of Iesus Christ that wee may not doubt now but that there is a way prepared for vs into heauē seeing that our flesh is sitting at the right hand of God Let it not dismay vs that our flesh is here subiect to the crosse tribulation that it is afflicted with hunger thirst worne out with trauell and labour dried vp with weeping and teares vexed with sicknes and paine fainted with heat deadded with colde tortured and slaine with fire and sword cast into the pit and consumed to dust and ashes Iesus Christ in this flesh of ours endured hunger and thirst was humbled and afflicted with fasting and weeping was exercised with sorowe and paine he was buffeted with fistes scourged with rods pricked with thornes pearced with nailes wounded with speare appaled by death shut vp in the graue and yet the same flesh nowe sitteth in heauen at the right hand of the maiestie of God And in what condition a Tertul. de resurrect carnis Pignus totius summae illuc quandoque redigendae As a pledge saith Tertullian to assure that the whole remainder of our flesh shall one daie be brought thither Whereupon he notablie inferreth Feare not flesh and bloud yee hane in Christ taken possession of heauen and of the kingdome of God or if any denie heauen to you let them denie Christ himselfe to bee in heauen O sonne of God the euerlasting brightnes of the glorie of God what was there in corruptible flesh that should mooue thee to haue that respect vnto it that thou shouldest thus lift vp the dust of the earth and exalt it aboue the highest heauens what coulde flesh profit thee or do thee good that thou shouldest vouchsafe vnto it so great a blessing But this was his mercie and loue towards vs when there was nothing in vs that might deserue his loue that wee might learne to honour him that hath so highly honored vs and might vnderstande that these bodies of ours redeemed with his most precious bloud and called to the hope of so great glorie are of more sacred and precious account then that they shoulde be prostituted vnto sinne and made brothell houses of filthines and vncleannesse and abused to be made the iustruments for the performing of our vnlawfull and sinfull desires It shoulde be alwaies a strong reason to mooue vs to the sober and holy vsage of our bodies to remember that Christ in our flesh sitteth in heauen and our bodies are appointed to sit with him for howe shall we thinke them to be meete for heauen if wee by wilfull sinne disgrace them and make them viler then the earth The maiestie of Christ sitting at the right hande of God an assurance of safetie both to the Church in generall and to all the members thereof 10 Now this height and maiesty and power of Iesus Christ serueth also to giue vs comfort and assurance of safety in all dangers both of the church in generall and in speciall of our selues In the shakings of the world in the totterings and staggerings of empires and kingdomes in the mutations and alterations of states and common wealthes in the middest of the whirlewindes and stormes and tempests of troubles at the sight whereof the world standeth amazed and vnder the burthen whereof it groneth yet Christ still sitteth at the right hand of God and in all things interposeth his hand and by his diuine prouidence and wisedome so gouerneth all things that howsoeuer things seeme to goe by hap and at all aduenture without the stedfast guiding of any directing hand yet indeede there is not so much as the moouing of a foote