[Greek or Hebrew], and not to be called after the Order of Aaron, that is in the Psalm where the rising of this Priest is declared and fore-told; there 1he is said to be, or denominated a Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, and nothing is spoken of the Order of Aaron. [Greek or Hebrew] denotes only an external denomination, not an internal Call. It is not the same with [Greek or Hebrew], used by our Apostle, Chap. 5. 4. [Greek or Hebrew], called of God; that is, by an effectual call and separation unto Office. But it answers [Greek or Hebrew], Chap. 5. 10. Cognominatus, called so by external Denomination. For the real call of Christ unto his Office by him who said unto him, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, was such as the call of Melchizedek himself could not represent. Wherefore the call of Christ unto his Office and that of Melchizedek are no where compared. But upon the Account of sundry Resemblances insisted on by the Apostle in the first verses of this Chapter, Christ is called by external Denomination a Priest after his Order, and is no where called so after the Order of Aaron. And the Reason why the Apostle addeth this Negative is evident. For it might be said that although another Priest was fore-told to arise, yet this might respect only an extraordinary call unto the same Office, and not a call unto an Office of another Kind or Order. Aaron was called by God immediately and in an extraordinary manner; and all his Posterity came unto the same Office by an ordinary Succession: So God Promiseth to raise up a Priest in a singular manner, 1 Sam. 2. 35. I will raise me up a Faithful Priest, which shall do according unto that which is in mine heart and my mind. A Priest of another Order is not here intended, but only the change of the time of Succession from the House of Ithamar, unto that of Phinehas, fulfilled in Zadock in the days of Solomon. So a new Priest might be raised up, and yet the old Legal Order and Administration be continued. But, saith the Apostle, He is not to be of the same Order: For the defect of the Levitical Priesthood was not only in the Persons which he mentions afterwards, but it was in the Office it self, which could not bring the Church to Perfection.
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