A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the…

This Description being given of the Person treated of, which makes up the Subject of the Proposition, it is affirmed concerning him that he abideth a Priest for ever. For any thing we find in the Story of his Death, or the Resignation of his ¹Office, or the Succession of any one unto him therein, he abideth a Priest for ever. Some I find have been venturing at some obscure Conjectures of the perpetuity of the Priesthood of Melchizedek in Heaven. But I cannot perceive that they well understood themselves what they intended. Nor did they consider that the real continuance of the Priesthood for ever in the Person of Melchizedek, is as inconsistent with the Priesthood of Christ, as the continuance of the same Office in the Line of Aaron. But things are so related concerning him in the Scripture, as that there is no mention of the ending of the Priesthood of his Order, nor of his own Personal Administration of his Office by Death or otherwise. Hence is he said to abide a Priest for ever. This was that which our Apostle principally designed to confirm from hence, namely, that there was in the Scripture before the Institution of the Aaronical Priesthood a Representation of an Eternal, unchangeable Priesthood to be introduced in the Church, which he demonstrates to be that of Jesus Christ.

This Description being given of the Person treated of, which makes up the Subject of the Proposition, it is affirmed concerning him that he abideth a Priest for ever. For any thing we find in the Story of his Death, or the Resignation of his ¹Office, or the Succession of any one unto him therein, he abideth a Priest for ever. Some I find have been venturing at some obscure Conjectures of the perpetuity of the Priesthood of Melchisedec in Heaven. But I cannot perceive that they well understood themselves what they intended. Nor did they consider that the real continuance of the Priesthood for ever in the Person of Melchisedec, is as inconsistent with the Priesthood of Christ, as the continuance of the same Office in the Line of Aaron. But things are so related concerning him in the Scripture, as that there is no mention of the ending of the Priesthood of his Order, nor of his own Personal Administration of his Office by Death or otherwise. Hence is he said to abide a Priest for ever. This was that which our Apostle principally designed to confirm from hence, namely, that there was in the Scripture before the Institution of the Aaronical Priesthood a Representation of an Eternal, unchangeable Priesthood to be introduced in the Church, which he demonstrates to be that of Jesus Christ.