A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

The fourth argument is taken from Heb. 5. 4. And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God as was Aaron. If ye would know what this calling was, see vers. 1. He was taken from among men, and ordained for men, in things pertaining to God. The Socinian exception against our arguments, from the example and practice of Ordination in the Apostles times, (namely that there is no such necessity of ordaining those who are to teach Doctrines formerly delivered, and received, as there was, for ordaining those who bring a new Doctrine) cannot here help them; yea, is hereby confuted, for none of the Priests under the law, no not the high Priest, might teach or pronounce any other thing, but according to the Law and the Testimony, Deut. 17. 11. Mal. 2. 7. Yet the Priests were ordained to their office, and might not without such Ordination enter into it. And this was no typical thing proper to the old Testament, but hath a standing reason. The Socinians therefore have another evasion from the words, this honour restricting the Apostles meaning, to that honour of the Priesthood only. Answ. 1. The words [Greek or Hebrew] need not to be understood demonstratively, or signanter, but indefinitely, [Greek or Hebrew] with the prepositive Article, and so both the Syriac Interpreter: Hierome, Arias Montanus, and the Tigurin version r•ad it indefinitely, honorem, not hunc honorem, No man taketh honour unto himself, but he, &c. See the very same words in the same sense, Rom. 13. [Greek or Hebrew], honour to whom honour, not this honour. So [Greek or Hebrew], Revel. 21. 26. is not rendered, this honour. 2. Suppose it be meant signanter, yet our argument is valid.

The fourth argument is taken from Heb. 5. 4. And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God as was Aaron. If yee would know what this calling was, see vers. 1. Hee was taken from among men, and ordained for men, in things pertaining to God. The Socinian exception against our arguments, from the example and practice of Ordination in the Apostles times, (namely that there is no such necessity of ordaining those who are to teach Doctrines formerly delivered, and receaved, as there was, for ordaining those who bring a new Doctrine) cannot here help them; yea, is hereby confuted, for none of the Priests under the law, no not the high Priest, might teach or pronounce any other thing, but according to the Law and the Testimony,