A call to Archippus

Sol. This is not an Objection for the friends of our Call and Office to make; the case between him and us being so wonderfully disproportionate, as we might many ways show. We shall instance but in four things.

Sol. This is not an Objection for the friends of our Call and Office to make; the case between him and us being so wonderfully disproportionate, as we might many wayes shew. We shall instance but in four things.

1. Abiathar, as it seems, had no right to the Priesthood: for it did, by right, belong to another Line. For ^*Abiathar was of the line of Eli, who it is not known how he came to the Priesthood: Whereas Zadok (put in in his room) was the son of Phinehas, and heir in a direct line to Aaron, and so seems to have the right of Priesthood belonging to him, both by lineal descent, being the proper heir to it, and also by God's special Promise.

1. *1 King. 2, 27. see Zadok his pedigree and heirship, 1 Chron. 6. 3. &c. the Promise to Phinehas. Num. 25. 13. and consult the English Annotations on 1 King. 1. 26, 27.

2. Abiathar was put out by two Princes, who were ¹