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A short treatise
A short treatise: containing all the principal grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for householders..A short treatise: containing all the principall grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for housholders..
London: printed for William Welby, 1617
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. Why was Christ a 18 Priest?
Expos. 18. Christ is our high Priest, not after the order of Aaron, but after the order of Melchizedek, Psal. 110. 4. Aaron was of the tribe of Levi, Heb. 7. 5. his stock and linage was known, Ex. 6. 16. 18. 20. he was compassed with infirmities, mortal, a sinner, and had need to offer for himself, and for his own sins, Heb. 7. 28. and 5. 2, 3. 4. and 9. 7. but Christ was of the tribe of Judah. Heb. 7. 14. without Father touching his humanity, without mother touching his deity, Heb, 7. 3. immortal and continuing for ever, holy, harmless, undefiled, who had no need to offer for himself, but offered himself for the people only,