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A35951	An expositon of all St. Pauls epistles together with an explanation of those other epistles of the apostles St. James, Peter, John & Jude : wherein the sense of every chapter and verse is analytically unfolded and the text enlightened. / David Dickson ...; Expositio analytica omnium Apostolicarum Epistolarum. English	Dickson, David, 1583?-1663.; Retchford, William.; Dickson, David, 1583?-1663. Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews.	1659 (1659)	Wing D1403; ESTC R7896	807,291	340

holiness dwells yet our High Priest is merciful and sometime felt those temptations in his flesh which wee feel yet without sin Therefore wee may boldly press unto him and wee ought to endeavour to enter into that rest Vers. 16. Let us therefore come boldly unto the Throne of Grace that wee may obtain mercy and finde Grace to help in time of need Argum. 11. God doth not sit in the Throne of Justice upon our approaches to him in Christ but in the Throne of Grace that hee may communicate help to us in time of need under all our necessities Therefore wee ought to come with boldness to the Throne of Grace that wee may rest under the wings of the Propitiatory which is the same with entring into Gods Rest by Faith CHAP. V. THe Excellency of Christs Prophetical Office and the necessity of cleaving to him and his Doctrine who is the Apostle and great Prophet of our Profession hath been spoken to The Excellency of his Priestly Office follows There are two parts of the Chapter In the first hee proves Christ to bee the chief and great Priest more excellent than any typical Priest that hee might instruct the Hebrews to moderate their thoughts about the Levitical Priesthood which they too highly esteemed of to the prejudice of Christ to vers 11. In the second part ●ee reproves the slothfulness of the Hebrews that hee might render them more attentive to the following Doctrine And hee proves the Excellency of Christs Priesthood above the Levitical by nine Arguments Vers. 1. For every High Priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God that hee may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins 2. Who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way for that hee himself also is compassed with infirmity 3. And by reason hereof hee ought as for the people so also for himself to offer for sins Argum. 1. The perfections which were required in the Levitical Priests vers 1 2. were joyned with some notes of imperfection and with the sins of the Priests vers 2 3. Therefore Christ which was declared a Priest without sin in the end of the former Chapter is more excellent than the Levitical Priests Among men The Perfections of the Levitical High Priest were four 1 The Levitical Priest was taken from among men and was chosen one of many 2 Was ordained for men in those things which appertained to God i. e. That in the place and name of the people hee should administer about the worship of God praying to him for the people teaching the people in the name of God and that hee should by all possible means promote the Glory of God and the salvation of the people 3 Hee offered gifts of inanimate things and sacrifices of beasts sometimes burnt-offerings for the sins of the people sometimes peace-offerings for the obtaining of benefits sometimes thank-offerings for benefits received other whiles sacrifices for special sins By all which the virtues of Jesus Christs Sacrifice was dimly shadowed out Have compassion 4 The fourth perfection requisite in the Priestly Office is a sympathy and commiseration proportioned to the greatness of the peoples misery wherewith they ought to bee touched towards sinners whether sinning out of ignorance or voluntary errour and deliberate counsel For that There are two notes of Imperfection in the Priest-hood 1 That they themselves were obnoxious to the same infirmities i. e. of ignorance and errours and the miseries consequent to sin So also 2 This second n●●e demonstrates the former That they are obliged out of duty to offer Sacrifices no less for their own sins than the sins of the people This is the first Argument Vers. 4. And no man taketh this honour unto himself but hee that is called of God as was Aaron 5. So also Christ glorifieth not himself to bee made an High Priest but hee that said unto him Thou art my Son to day have I begotten thee Argum. 2. As the lawful Priests were called to the honour of this office so Christ was not onely lawfully called by the Father as Aaron but also further was acknowledged and declared the onely begotten Son of God in this Priestly office Therefore hee is much more excellent than the Levitical Priests The Antecedent is proved out of Psalm 2. where the Father speaking to his Son vers 7. calls him his Son whom hee begot before hee command him vers 8. to ask of him the ends of the earth or intercede for the salvation of men which are parts of the Priests office Therefore in this Psalm hee is not onely called by the Father to his Priestly office but also is acknowledged his Son and so more excellent than the Levitical Priests Vers. 6. As hee saith also in another place Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec Argum. 3. From Psal. 110. Christ is appointed by the Father a Priest for ever of whose Priest-hood there is no end according to the order of Melchisedec the type Therefore hee is more excellent than the Levitical High Priests Vers. 7. Who in the daies of his flesh when hee had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard in that hee feared Argum. 4. This Argument consists of five Branches which may bee so many Arguments 1 Christ is so the Son of God that hee is man also the Son in our flesh the infirmiti●s whereof sometime hee felt without sin and so is a more excellent man than the Levitical Priests 2 Hee offered up prayers and supplications and himself to death for his people and so offered a more excellent Sacrifice than the Levitical Priests 3 Hee interceded with a greater sense of our misery and guilt with strong crying and tears and so in his sympathy towards us excelled the Levitical Priests 4 With greater confidence hee pleaded our cause than any of the typical Priests could even then when in the pangs of death and sense of the Divine wrath or curse due to our sins his sanctified humane nature conflicted with the terrours of death 5 Hee prayed with greater efficacy and fruit than any typical Priest For hee was freed according to his prayer from fear which the sight of an angry God put upon his sense and holy reason because having paid a sufficient price for us all cause of anger and fear was taken away Therefore Christ is a far more excellent Priest than the Levitical Priests Vers. 8. Though hee were a Son yet learned hee obedience by the things which hee suffered Argum. 5. Drawn from the former which with the removal of the scandal of the Cross shews also the excellency of Christs Priest-hood Christ was not imployed in beholding of the Sacrifices slain and himself free from all suffering as the Levitical Priests in the slaying of Sacrifices but although hee was the Son of God yet hee really felt by

2. But for Christs Priesthood God is bound with an Oath Never to change it and it leaneth on his nature which cannot altar nor repent and upon his Oath which cannot be violated 2. Another comparison betwixt the Levitical Covenant and the Evangelical Covenant As far as the Oath is above the changeable commandement by so much is the new Covenant better than the Covenant under the Law Then 1. There was a Covenant or Testament whereby Beleevers were saved as well under the Law as under the Gospel 2. The Covenant now though in substance of salvation one with the former yet in the manner of down-setting the Articles and the form of it is better than the Covenant then more clear more free more full more largely extended and more firm 3. Christ is here called Surety of this Covenant Then 1. Christ must see the Covenant kept and be good for it 2. God hath Christ to crave for our performance of the Covenant and we have Christ to crave for Gods part of the Covenant Yea and Christ to crave to give us Grace to perform that which God requireth of us in his Covenant 3. Jesus is content to be Surety and the Father hath consented and ordained and made him Surety So it resteth only that wee bee content also and make much of Christ that hee may do all our work for us and all Gods work in us Vers. 23. And they truly were many Priests because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death 24. But this man because hee continueth ever hath an unchangeable Priesthood Another Excellency of Christs Priesthood above the Levitical which may be branched out in th●se particulars following 1. The Levitical Priests were many both at one time and one after another by reason whereof that Priesthood was weakened while one part of the Office for such a time was in the hands of this man and another part for another time was in the hands of that man And because one man could not be ready to take the Sacrifices from all the people therefore several men behoved to take several parts of the burden But in Christs Priesthood there is but one man even himself His Priesthood is undivided no man beareth a part of the burden with him Hee alone attendeth all mens Sacrifices by himself Hee is at leisure for every mans employment at all times in the greatest throng of Sacrifices Then as long as Christ is at leisure no reason to employ another to carry our prayers 2. The Levitical Priesthood did pass from one person to another Death made interruption But Christs Priesthood cannot pass from his own person to any other neither death nor any other infirmity can interrupt his Office Then 1. To make any Priest by special Office in the New Testament beside Christ is to rent the Priesthood of Christ and make it imperfect like Aarons which for the same reason that it had many Priests was weak and imperfect and inferiour to Christs 2. To make Priests by office in the New Testament to offer up any corporal Sacrifice is to make Christs Priesthood separable from his own person which is against the nature of Christs Priesthood which cannot pass from one to another for so importeth the word 3. To make plurality of Priests in Christs Priesthood Vicars or Substitutes or in any respect partaker of the office with him is to presuppose that Christ is not able to do that office alone but is either dead or weak that hee cannot fulfil that office contrary to the Text here which saith Because hee continueth ever he hath an unchangeable Priesthood or a Priesthood which cannot pass from one to another Vers. 25. Wherefore hee is able also to save them to the uttermost which come unto God by him seeing hee ever liveth to make intercession for them 1. Hee sheweth the fruit of Christs keeping still the Priesthood altogether in his own person to be the perfect Salvation of all beleevers for ever Hee is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God through him Then 1. Whosoever communicateth Christs Priesthood with any other beside his own person maketh Christ not able alone to save to the utmost those that come unto God through him 2. From this ground also it doth follow that Christ not only beginneth the beleevers salvation but perfecteth it also Hee doth not work a part of a mans salvation and leave the rest to his own merits or the merits of others but perfecteth it himself even to the uttermost 3. And if a man joyn any thing meritorious unto Christs Priesthood or any Mediatour for intercession beside him or seeketh by his own works to purchase salvation hee denieth Christ to be able to save him to the uttermost 2. Hee describeth Beleevers to be those that come to God through Christ. Then 1. Christ is the door and the way through which onely access is gotten to God By Saints or Angels there is not a way to come to God but by Christ onely 2. They that come not through him alone to God seclude themselves from the sufficiency of salvation to be had in him 3. The nature of beleeving is to make a man come towards God to get communion with him through Christ. 4. And none but such as come in Faith to God through Christ can take comfort from his Priesthood or look for salvation 3. Hee giveth a reason why perfect salvation is to be had for such as come to God through Christ Because Hee liveth for ever to make intercession for them Hee saith not to offer or cause to offer up the sacrifice of his body for them But Hee liveth and is not to be offered any more and liveth to make intercession Then 1. The sacrificing part is done and ended His intercession hath now the place and by his intercession wee get the merit of his death and passion applied unto us and not by any new oblation 2. If hee brook his life hee will not fail to intercede for us who come unto God through him and not through Saint or Angel or any person beside For hee liveth for ever to make intercession for us Vers. 26. For such an High-Priest became us who is holy harmless undefiled separate from sinners and made higher than the Heavens To the end hee may force the Hebrews to forsake the Priesthood of Levi hee draweth a strong reason from the nature of our estate under the Gospel Whereby hee proveth not onely that the Priests of Aarons Order are abolished but also every Son of Adam is excluded from the office of the Priesthood except Jesus Christ in his own person onely Because every Priest that wanteth the properties of Jesus Christ is unbeseeming for us under the Gospel A sinful man might have been a Priest under the Law to prefigure Christ before hee came But now no sinful man may be a Priest by office but Christ onely in whom there is no sin When the Sacrifice was a beast then a

sinful man might be a Priest But now when the Son of God is the Sacrifice and hath offered up himself already and is gone in into the Sanctuary with his own blood to make intercession there must be no more any sacrificing till hee come out of the Sanctuary again at the day of judgement nor any Priest but hee till hee have ended his intercession For such an High-Priest became us who is holy harmless c. Question But why is it unbeseeming us under the Gospel to have a Priest without these properties I answer The Sacrifice of the New Testament is the unspotted Lamb of God Jesus Christ holy harmless c. Therefore it becommeth us to have such a Priest who is holy harmless and undefiled For it were unseemly that the Priest should be worse than the Sacrifice Next our Priest hath our sins original and actual to remove and Heaven to open unto us And therefore it were unbeseeming that any should be our Priest who hath not his own sins altogether removed nor yet hath gotten entry as yet into Heaven himself 1. In that hee draweth them of necessity to quit all mens Priesthood and betake them unto Christ as Priest onely wee learn That our necessities being well weighed with the insufficiency of any beside Christ to do our turn wee shall be forced to quit all Priests but Christ onely For what Priest can know all our needs all our sins all our thoughts all our desires all our prayers all our purposes and wait on upon our business with God night and day to see that no wrath break out upon us Who can do this but Christ onely What Man What Saint What Angel 2. In that hee reckoneth a number of perfections necessary to be in a Priest in the time of the Gospel all of them in Christ and all such as wee stand in need of wee learn That all the perfections whereof wee have need in a Priest are all in Christ And the perfections which are in Christ we have need of them all and should make use of them all 3. The first property of a Priest under the Gospel is this Hee must be holy that is of his own nature holy in his original holy Then no sinful man can be a sufficient Priest in the New Testament to do for us who wants holiness by Nature 4. The next property Our Priest must be harmless ill-less free from any original guiltiness Then No man come of Adam by natural propagation can be a Priest for us now to satisfie our necessities who have sin original in us 5. The third property Wee have need of a Priest undefiled that is free from actual sin Then No Priest can suffice us who are defiled with actual sin but Christ who never sinned 6. The fourth property A Priest meet for us must be free from the pollution of those amongst whom hee converseth Then Wee who are of polluted lips and lives and dwell among such a people communicating many waies of their guiltiness cannot have sufficient comfort through any Priest who can be infected with sin And hee who is a man of polluted lips is not meet to be a Priest for us The fift property A Priest meet for us behoved to have his residence in Heaven and have commandment over Heaven to open it unto us and give us entry Then None other but Christ could suffice us on whom by nature the doors of Heaven are closed No Priest out of Heaven is meet for us Vers. 27. Who needeth not daily as those High-Priests to offer up Sacrifice first for his own sins and then for the peoples For this hee did once when hee offered up himself 1. The sixt property of a fit Priest for us Hee must have no need to offer Sacrifice for his own sins Then neither Levi nor any sinful man after him can be a Priest ander the New Testament but Christ onely who never sinned and so had never need to offer for himself 2. The seventh property Hee must not have need to offer daily for the peoples sins who must be our Priest For if he should offer the second day then the first daies Sacrifice should be declared unsufficient Or else why offereth hee again after that which is sufficient Then 1. The Priest of the New Testament needeth not to offer oftner than once 2. And if Christs Sacrifice were offered oftner than once or daily hee could not be a fit Priest for us nor offer a perfect Sacrifice for us for the oft offering should declare the former offerings unsufficient and imperfect 3. Hee giveth a reason why Christ needed not to offer up oftner Because hee hath offered up himself once for the sins of the people Then 1. Christ was both the Priest and the Sacrifice in his own offering 2. Christs Sacrifice cannot be offered up by any but himself another than Christs self cannot offer up Christ. 3. Betwixt the comming of Christ and the writing of this Epistle which was sundry years after Christs Ascention the Apostle knew no offering of Christ but that onely once upon the Cross and yet times out of number was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper celebrated before this time 4. In that hee maketh that once offering the reason of his not offering daily it teacheth us That the perfection of that once offered Sacrifice maketh the repetition needless And whosoever maketh it needful that Christ be offered daily maketh both Christ an imperfect Priest and his Sacrifice imperfect also Vers. 28. For the Law maketh men High Priest which have infirmity but the word of the oath which was since the Law maketh the Son who is consecrated for evermore Hee giveth a special reason why it beseemeth not us under the Gospel to have a sinful man for our Priest because this is the very difference betwixt the Law and the Gospel 1. The Law maketh men which have infirmities High Priests But the word of the oath which was since the Law maketh the Son and none but the Son who is consecrated for evermore Then The Scripture knoweth no Priest but the Levitical Priests of Aarons posterity for the time of the Law or else that one Priest which was made by an oath for the time of the Gospel Beside these the Apostle acknowledgeth none nor were there any other in his time in the Church 2. Hee maketh the difference of the Law and the Gospel to stand amongst other things in the difference of Priests so as the Gospel cannot admit such Priests as the Law admitted Then To have Priests now after the similitude of the Priests under the Law were to remove the difference which God hath made betwixt the Law and the Gospel 3. The differences as the Apostle setteth them down here are 1. The course taken about Priests under the Law was alterable they were made without an oath the Law-giver declaring it to be his will to change that course when hee saw it fit But the course taken about the Priests