The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

3. Reasonable Persons represented our Saviour either in their Offices, actions, or the memorable accidents that befell them. Joseph the beloved of his Father, sent by him to visit his Brethren, by them unworthily sold to strangers, and thereby raised to be their Lord and Saviour, was a lively type of him. Jonah three days and nights in the Whales belly, and miraculously restored, was a type of his lying in the Grave and Resurrection. Moses in his Prophetical, David in his Kingly Office, prefigured him. The Priestly Office being the Foundation of the other two, and that upon which our Salvation principally depends, was illustrated by two Glorious types. Melchizedek and Aaron. The one the high Priest in ordinary, the other the Priest of God by extraordinary designation. I will briefly touch upon the resemblance between him and Christ. Although Sacrifices were offered from the Beginning; yet he is the first to whom that Title is given, as called to that office in a special manner. The Divinity of Christs Person, the Eternity of his Office, and the Infinite Value of his Oblation were shadowed forth by him. Melchizedek is introduced into the Sacred story as one descending from Heaven and ascending thither, without any account of his Birth or Death. The silence ⟨p. 497⟩of the Scripture is Mysterious: for the Spirit conducted Holy Men in their Writings. The Levitical Priests descended by Natural Generation from their predecessors, and had successors in their Office, which was annexed to the race of Levi. But Melchizedek is represented without Father and Mother, without Beginning and End of Days, whose Priesthood was permanent in himself. For things and Persons have a double being, real in themselves, and notional as they exist in the mind; so that no mention being made of his coming into the World or leaving it, the silence of the Scripture is equivalent to his continual duration. Now in this was an adumbration of Christ who was the Eternal Son of God, and really came from Heaven to execute his office, and ascended thither. And although his oblation was finished on the Earth, and his intercession shall cease in Heaven; yet the effects of it shall be Eternal in his People, and the Glory of it in himself. The Apostle observes an other resemblance between the Supreme Quality of Melchizedek King of Salem and Jesus Christ:

3. Reasonable Persons represented our Saviour either in their Offices, actions, or the memorable accidents that befel them. Joseph the beloved of his Father, sent by him to visit his Brethren, by them unworthily sold to strangers, and thereby rais'd to be their Lord and Saviour, was a lively type of him. Jonach three dayes and nights in the Whales belly, and miraculously restor'd, was a type of his lying in the Grave and Resurrection. Moses in his Prophetical, David in his Kingly Office, praefigur'd him. The Priestly Office being the Foundation of the other two, and that upon which our Salvation principally depends, was illustrated by two Glorious types. Melchisedec and Aaron. The one the high Priest in ordinary, the other the Priest of God by extraordinary designation. I will briefly touch upon the resemblance between him and Christ. Although Sacrifices were offer'd from the Beginning; yet he is the first to whom that Title is given, as called to that office in a special manner. The Divinity of Christs Person, the Eternity of his Office, and the Infinite Value of his Oblation were shadowed forth by him. Melchisedec is introduc'd into the Sacred story as one descending from Heaven and ascending thither, without any account of his Birth or Death. The silence