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A17696	Sermon of Maister Iohn Caluin, on the historie of Melchisedech Wherein is also handled, Abrahams courage in rescuing his nephew Lot: and his Godliness in paying tithes to Melchisedech. Also, Abrahams faith, in belieuing God: comprehending foure sermons. And, Abrahams obedience, in offering his sonne Isaack; in three sermons. Translated out of French, by Thomas Stocker, Gent.; Sermons	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Stocker, Thomas, fl. 1569-1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 4440; ESTC S112743	137,391	292

see what it was that was accomplished in the person of the some of God Colos 2.14 when as he was sent into the world that is that in suffering for the remission of our sins hee hath made vs righteous Not that we are in truth altogither so for there wanteth a great deale of it but wee are so farre righteous as that GOD will not iudge vs according to our desertes and contrariwise he by his infinite goodnesse supporteth vs and the obedience which Iesus Christ performed is approoued and allowed vnto vs. As if any man should paie our debts why then we are discharged Euē so is our Lord Iesus Christ as it were appointed to be the principall debtter for vs and therby dischargeth vs before God Neither can the diuell haue any thing wherwith to accuse vs when as we shall trust vnto the satisfaction which was paide for vs by the sonne of God And therefore it is not without cause that he is called a priest Howbeit we for our parts are rightly to consider what fruit and benefite wee are to receiue by this his office of priesthood For it is not for him selfe alone but for our profite and welfare that the father by a solemne oath bestowed this estate and dignitie vpon him Now wee are here to note that he is called a Priest for euer to the end this honour might be reserued to him and transported to none other If this point then had been so well considered as it ought and as the Apostle most notably setteth it downe in the Epistle to the Hebrewes Hebr. 7.8.9.10 Hebrewes The abhomination that hath been brought into the world and which to this day ruleth and reigneth therein had neuer beene for the Pope maketh his priests with this cōdition to appaise God For these are the very words which he vseth when hee charmeth them that is to say hee priesteth them with these words of authoritie WE GIVE THEE POWER TO OFFER SACRIFICE VNTO GOD TO APPAISE HIM What an horrible blasphemy is this For this is as much as to make GOD a lyar and to make voyd the solemne oath which hee hath pronounced with his owne mouth and which is spoken of in the hundreth and tenth Psalme that wee haue alledged where God saith That Iesus Christ shall bee a Priest for euer euen he alone that is according to the order of Melchisedech who hath not his like or match And yet notwithstanding behold how the Popish Priest bragge that they offer vp Iesus Christ and that they are Gods Priests to make reconciliation for the sinnes both of the quicke and of the dead For they are not content to redeem such as by them selues out of their clowches as out of the hands of the eues but will haue also their Priesting witcherie extend it selfe euen to the dead Wee see heere that there is a constraint more then manifest betweene this decree which is pronounced and spoken by the holie mouth of GOD and that which Antichrist hath falsly deuised and which euen at this day hee still vpholdeth and mainteineth Wee are therefore to note that Iesus Christ did not offer vp himselfe onely once for all to the end to appaise the wrath of God his father towardes vs and to paie all our debtes but that also the power of this oblation which hee made should endure for euer and qee permanent And therefore we may see why the Apostle vseth this similitude Hebr. 10.29 That the way is as it were a freshe consecrated vnto vs by the blood of Iesus Christ our Lorde as if hee should haue said that the blood which was once shed for our saluation is neuer drawne drie but daily ouerfloweth our soules by the power of his holy spirit which bedeweth vs with the same as S. Peter in the first Chapter of his first canonicall Epistle speaketh Mark also why Iesus Christ in his Supper saith This is my blood of the new Testament and so consequently sor euer as if hee should haue said that wee should not thinke that he had made a reconciliation which should not endure and as though it had bin but for a day or a yeare only but that at this day hee occupieth the place of a priest Because hee is the Mediator vnto God his father in the power of the death and passion which once he suffered and doth make intercession for vs as that we are assured that we are acceptable vnto God when as we come vnto him in the name of our Aduocat and are grounded and setled vppon the oblation which he once made to the end it might serue vs at this day and vnto the worlds end I haue alreadie said that it were not inough that wee were thus set at one with God and our sinnes forgiuen vs without we were eftsoons defended and conserued vnder his mightie hand and protection And therefore it was meet that Iesus Christ should be a king For all the saluation that we must looke for from the hand of God must come from our Lord Iesus Christ We must not flie in the ayre to looke a farre of for that which we want for he giueth and offreth himselfe vnto vs. And therefore we must in the person of this Redeemer finde out all fulnesse of that which is requisite for our saluation For that cause is our Lord Iesus Christ called a king the vnction which was bestowed on him apperteineth vnto his kingdome to the ende wee might be enriched with all his benefites and defended against all our enemies to haue him to be an inuincible fortresse for vs. And although we be set vpon yet shall wee haue alwaies the victorie Thus we see how the riches of the kingdom of heauen are bestowed vpon vs. And forsomuch as Iesus Christ was replenished with them in all perfection and fulnes wee for our parts are voyd of them and want them And thefore we must come and begge them of him that he might deale liberally with vs in helping of vs which hee doth when as he bestoweth the graces of his holie spirit vpon vs that we might be reformed according to his image and the diuell repulsed and put to flight Now I pray you what strength haue we of our selues For the least temptation in the world will throw vs downe yea and our very shadow will make vs as it were vanish away But it is said that when Iesus Christ shall take vs into his protection we shall be in such a fortresse as that all the enemies wee haue shall neuer be able to haue power ouer vs. Now wee see a great deale better that it is not without cause that God vsed a solemne oath when as he made our Lord Iesus Christ a King and Priest after the order of Melchisedech Now the Apostle goeth further and standeth vppon the names for Melchisedech signifieth a king of righteousnes Hee sheweth vs then hereby that the kingdom of the sonne of God is not common neither yet to bee esteemed lyke

them to condemne them selues an hundreth tymes But it is great pitie that the diuel hath so ruled and reigned amongst them as that hee hath for these fourteene hundreth yeeres so blinded those that name themselues Christians as that they are gone so farre as to deuise a bewitching fantasie that Iesus Christ was figured in the person of Melchisedech that his bodie is the heauenly brcad his blood the wine to nourish soules and that he offered both the one and the other Now at the first sight this Allegorie will please such as haue itching eares how Iesus Christ calleth his bodie bread and his blood wine And therefore this seemeth verie well to agree that Melchisedech offered bread and wine because the bodie of Iesus Christ ought to haue this power in it selfe to feed vs and his blood also to quicken our soules howbeit heere is no speaking of anie oblation made vnto God But Moses saith that Melchisedech king of Salem offered bread and wine that is to saie that he presented it vnto Abrā It shuld here fal out that Abrā was God because the oblation was deliuered vp vnto his owne person and yet it was not to himselfe alone but for his whole company also So here the kingly liberalitie of Melchisedech after hee had once friendly receiued him Now to referre this vnto God were to peruert the whole substance of the matter as may be seene And besides our Lord Iesus Christ offered his bodie and blood not that they were before bread wine but because they wer offred they are called bred wine that is to say they are of the power nature of bread wine vnto vs. For how is it that our soules are susteined by the body blood of our Lord Iesus Christ our liues preserued by thē Forsooth it is because that the sacrifice that was once offered is the summe and perfection of all goodnes And therefore if Iesus Christ had not been before offred vp his bodie had not been at this day meat neither yet his blood drinke And marke why Saint Paul saith in the first epistle to the Corinths 1. Cor. 5.7.8 That Iesus Christ our Passeouer was offered vp for vs let vs therefore now eate And this is the order that we must holde that is that the oblation be first made that wee afterward by the power therof might be nourished and filled with the bodie blood of our Lord Iesus Christ So that now wee see euerie manner of way that these miserable fantasticall people who haue corrupted this place of Moses haue no vnderstanding of our Lord Iesus Christ Now the Papists as they haue been possessed by Sathan and cast vp into a reprobate sense not knowing to iudge betweene white and blacke and that by the iust iudgement of God haue made themselues selues so rediculous as that the verie children in the streets might spit in their faces yet not cōtenting themselues with this erro● only haue brought in also a great number o● other filthy dregs of their own And therupo● haue said that bread wine must bee daily offred vp sith the priesthood of Iesus Christ is answerable vnto the priesthood of Melchisedech Wheras first of all they are conuinced by their owne mouthes of ouer grosse follye For they say that in their Masse there remaineth neither bread nor wine after the consecration or rather charming of their Oste as they call it but euen God himselfe And although wee see bread the wine that distilleth yet they say they ar but speeches that is to say visible figures in which is no substāce For they wold make men beleeue that there is neither bread nor wine and so neither belieue either their sight tast or yet any of the rest of all their sences And yet in the meane while they make men belieue that it is al nothing when as they haue pronounced the sacramental words as they terme them So that if they should offer vp bread wine where are they For they say that there is none of thē there And yet for al that they allege this text say that there must be bread wine offered vp We see then their beastlines to be so grosse as that very children may laugh thē to scorne and be their iudges And besides if they will haue any correspondence between Melchisedech and our Lord Iesus Christ then must the Psalme which wee haue alledged Psal 110. needes bee true that is that there is but one priest who was made by a perticuler oath And therfore he must cōtinually keep his office howbeit they make thēselues priests in the roome of our Lord Iesus Christ And thus is their similitude cast to ground And therfore we shall not need any other replies nor arguments to cōfute their beastlines but take the text barely as it lieth therwithall eftsoons take their cōfession frō their own mouths to cut their owne throtes But be as be may we see that by this text there is a singuler doctrine instructiō which the diuell straineth himself to darken bring in doubt falsefie yea if it wer possible vtterly to ouerthrow it And therefore wee for our partes ought so much the more awakē our dull sences to imprint in our memories that which is here cōteined the rather incited therunto by reason of the solemne oath that God was willing to pronounce For as if we haue alreadie said it was not without cause that he soswore by his name But it was to the ende infallibly to confirme our faith that we should not doubt but that whatsoeuer is requisite for our righteousnesse peace and defense leadeth vs vnto the kingdome of heauen through Iesus Christ his onely sonne And this is it that wee are heereby to learne Hee saith anon after THAT MELCHISEDECH BLESSED ABRAM because hee was the Priest of the high God This blessing importeth a superioritie as the Apostle very well aduertiseth vs when as hee saith Hebr. 7.7 That the better blesseth the lesse And therefore in the qualitie of a priest Abram must needes be inferiour to Melchisedech And yet it is said that Abram was the father and head of the church and therfore we must needes conclude that Melchisedech represented a greater person then any mortall man could be And this was it that made many of the Fathers imagine him to bee an Angell but those are verie foolish mere toyish inuentions For when he is called the Priest of the liuing God no doubt of it hee was knowne to be a man in the country and also King of Salem And this is as great a mockery for put the case it had ben an Angell yet should he not haue bin greater then Abrā in this generall paternitie of the whole church And therefore we must come backe vnto this which is that although Melchisedech was a mortall man yet surpassed hee in dignitie the Angels of heauen by reason of his priesthood not as of

himselfe but hy reason of him whose figure he beare as Dauid was far greater then all the Angels when it was said of him Thou art my sonne Psal 2.7 Hebr. 2. ● this daie haue I begotten thee This was not spokē saith the Apostle of any Angel and yet was Dauid a wretched sinner the sonne of Adam euen as well as any of the rest And how then is it here that he is so highly exalted as that the Angels are made inferiors vnto him It is because that this figure represented the maiestie of the sonne of God not the person of Dauid alone Wee must then come to this point that Melchisidech could not bee aboue Abram but in regarde of the truth which he figured And therefore wee must conclude that Iesus Christ was euen then declared to the end that the beliefe of the faithfull might bee altogither grounded on him because there was none other saluation giuen vnder heauen from the beginning but the same which is at this daie reuealed vnto vs in the Gospell Now it is true that there is a common kinde of blessing For to blesse is oftentimes taken in the holie scripture for to praie as hereafter wee shall see that one common man blesseth another saying God blesse thee as when we salute one another they are blessings this is the common phrase of the holie scriptures But there is a singuler blessing which is reserued for the priestes And therefore marke why it is so often saide in the lawe The priestes which blesse the people in the name of God that is to say which haue that authoritie giuen them thereto And the same forme hath been deliuered vnto vs in the sixt Chapter of Numbers where it is said Num. 6.23.24.25 26. Luk. 1.24.50 Thus shall the priestes blesse my people The Lord blesse you and keepe you the Lorde make his face to shine vpon you And againe The Lord be fauourable vnto you and grant you his peace Thus wee see what a form the Lord hath set downe in his church And for this cause also it is said when as Iesus Christ ascended into heauen that he lifted vp his handes ouer his Apostles as the priestes did to the end to accomplish the figures of the lawe in blessing his Disciples This then is the blessing which is heere spoken of Hebr. 7.7 And marke why the Apostle reasonneth not without cause that it must needs be that Melchisedech in this qualitie was farre more excellent then Abram because hee blessed him And yet is Abram the father of the whole Church We are therfore to conclude that our Sauiour Christ hath a farre greater maiestie then any earthly maiestie hath or can haue and that in the person of the Mediator Wherefore all power and dignitie must bee subiect vnto him and regard him and both great and small must acknowledge and confesse that God his father hath giuen vnto him the chiefe aucthoritie euen in this humane nature of his and euery knee must how and kneele vnto him Thus we see how these wordes of S. Paul in his Epistle to the Philippians are to be vnderstood Philip 2.9.10 And this is it which we are to remember It remaineth now that wee apply these wordes to our own vse benefit that is we must not doubt but that Melchisedech blessed Abram in a figure euen as at this daye our Lorde Iesus Christ who is the euerlasting Priest blesseth vs in the name of God his Father For this praier which is here set downe is not in vain but must needes bee effectuall because wee know that it could not bee otherwise chosen but that he must needs be heard Let vs therfore conclude that so long as wee put our trust in Iesus Christ wee haue him for our Aduocate towards God his Father And although we are cursed in Adam and do daily bring a new curse vpon our heads through our sins transgressions yet notwithstanding the same shall hereby be blotted out prepared in that our lord Iesus christ vouchsafeth in deed in truth to take vpon him the office to blesse vs. We see also the praier which he once made in the gospel after S. Iohn in this maner Holy father I do not onely pray here vnto thee for these to wit Ioh. 17.20 21. for the eleuē apostles and Disciples which he had chosen vnto himself But I pray also for all those which shall belieue in my name through their preaching that they may all be one in me as I am one in thee and that wee may be all one In this sort did our sauiour Iesus Christ pronounce these words out of his owne month to wit that he praid not for his Disciples alone which were of his own company but also for as many as belieue in him through their preaching Let vs heere then learne that when soeuer wee shall imbrace the doctrine of the Ghospell in true obedience that wee be surely persuaded that the sonne of God is giuen to vs for our souereign and onely good Thus we see how powerfull his praier will alwaies be for it is needlesse for him to beginne the same at euening at morne euerie day For it is sufficient that he hath sealed it with his blood and by that onely and euerlasting sacrifice which hee offered vp once for all For wee are assured to haue our praiers heard when as we pray vnto God in the name of our lord Iesus Christ For our praiers shuld stink yea infect the aire if wee considered what God is and afterward considered what wee our selues are Howbeit our praiers are made holy through the priestly blessing of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ vnto whom we must looke that wee might bee partakers of all his benefites Thus we see in summe how we are to applie this saying of Moses vnto our benefite and the building vp of our faith where it is said That Abram the father of the faithfull was blessed We see herein that Abram as of him selfe was accursed sith hee was faine to borrow the priestly blessing And Melchisedech also right well knew that there is nothing in vs but miserie and wretchednes and that it is God that must blesse vs and that we must imbrace it with all humilitie if wee will enioy the benefite that is brought vnto vs by our Lord Iesus Christ and which hee daily offreth vnto vs by the preaching of the Gospell Now hereupon Moses reciteth the blessing of Melchisedech BLESSED ART THOV ABRAM saith he OF GOD MOST HIGH possesser of heauen and earth And blessed bee the most high God that hath deliuered thine enemies into thy hand hee blessed Abram in the name of God as wee haue alreadie alledged out of the law Wee must not heere vnderstand that when the priestes haue the office to blisse that it proceedeth as from their owne authoritie and that God hath resigned his office ouer vnto them and his honour and praise to be thereby so