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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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2. This implieth the spirituality of his Priesthood, for Melchizedek though a Priest, yet brought only bread and wine by way of refreshment to Abraham. It's a wonder to see how men of great learning and parts would find out a real Sacrifice in that fact of Melchisedechs, but it is easily proved, that Christ after that bodily oblation of himself, hath now appointed no other Sacrifices but spiritual. There is now nothing bodily or carnal in the Sacraments: It's sursum corda, and we are to prepare faith, not our teeth for the Sacrament. The Priestly-office of old was in a carnal bodily way suitable to all the other religious exercises; But now the external way of Christ is spiritual; we are to offer spiritual Sacrifices, and our prayers are spiritual Sacrifices.
2. This implieth the spirituality of his Priesthood, for Melchisedech though a Priest, yet brought only bread and wine by way of refreshment to Abraham. It's a wonder to see how men of great learning and parts would finde out a real Sacrifice in that fact of Melchisedechs, but it is easily proved, that Christ after that bodily oblation of himself, hath now appointed no other Sacrifices but spiritual. There is now nothing bodily or carnal in the Sacraments: It's sursum corda, and we are to prepare faith, not our teeth for the Sacrament. The Priestly-office of old was in a carnal bodily way suitable to all the other religious exercises; But now the external way of Christ is spiritual; we are to offer spiritual Sacrifices, and our prayers are spiritual Sacrifices.
3. There is implied the perpetuity of it, Melchizedek was a Priest for ever. There is no abolition or translation of this Office, no Successor to it, therefore Christ doth abide for ever, That once oblation of himself perfected for ever those that were his: So that if he had offered up himself an hundred times more, it could not have been more effectual, then this once oblation.
3. There is implied the perpetuity of it, Melchisedech was a Priest for ever. There is no abolition or translation of this Office, no Successour to it, therefore Christ doth abide for ever, That once oblation of himself perfected for ever those that were his: So that if he had offered up himself an hundred times more, it could not have been more effectual, then this once oblation.