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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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1. The conjoining of a Kingly power to the Priesthood. In the Old Testament God had separated the Kingly and Priestly Office, none might undertake both; and therefore when Uzziah, though a King, took upon him to offer Incense, which was the Priests Office, God struck him with a leprosy, and the Priests withstood him; but in this Melchizedek they were both joined together. Christs being then a Priest after the order of Melchizedek, doth imply, that by virtue of his Priestly office he did attain to a Kingly; and therefore the Scripture speaks of that glorious condition he was exalted unto after his sufferings, even to be above all Kings and Potentates, and therefore it was providential that this Melchizedek, though a Priest, should have such a name as to be a King of righteousness, and a King of peace. and truly had Christ only sanctified himself to be a Priest for us without this Kingly office, we should still be under the power of our lusts, and dominion of our sins, and should have wanted a spiritual Prince of Glory against that prince of darkness▪ It's a Kingly Priesthood; so that there is not only religion, but power accompanying him.
1. The conjoyning of a Kingly power to the Priesthood. In the Old Testament God had separated the Kingly and Priestly Office, none might undertake both; and therefore when Ʋzziah, though a King, took upon him to offer Incense, which was the Priests Office, God struck him with a leprosie, and the Priests withstood him; but in this Melchisedech they were both joyned together. Christs being then a Priest after the order of Melchisedech, doth imply, that by vertue of his Priestly office he did attain to a Kingly; and therefore the Scripture speaks of that glorious condition he was exalted unto after his sufferings, even to be above all Kings and Potentates, and therefore it was providential that this Melchisedech, though a Priest, should have such a name as to be a King of righteousnesse, and a King of peace. and truly had Christ only sanctified himself to be a Priest for us without this Kingly office, we should still be under the power of our lusts, and dominion of our sins, and should have wanted a spiritual Prince of Glory against that prince of darkness▪ It's a Kingly Priesthood; so that there is not only religion, but power accompanying him.