,transcribed from the #ahac ,r4 ,thomas 
edition by ,david ,price1 email         
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,,christ                           ,,the
 ,,true ,,melchisedec4                  
,,being ,,the ,,substance               
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,,by ,j4 ,,church1                      
,,minister ,,of ,,the ,,gospel4         
99 99 99 99 99           8,your ,father 
,abraham rejoiced to see my day--he saw 
it and was                              
glad40  ,john viii1 #ef4      8,he will 
bless the ,house of ,israel--he will    
bless the ,house of ,aaron40            
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99 99 99 99 99          ,,christ ,,the  
,,true ,,melchisedec4                   
8,now consider how great this ,man      
was40--,heb4 vii1 #d4    ,,the sacred   
pages are an exhibition of the loving   
heart of a covenant ,god1  ,father1     
,son1 and ,spirit2 from whence flow all 
the blessings of eternal  life to guilty
 man4  ,all spring from love1 for ,god  
is love--he is love  itself1 the        
fountain of it4  ,he loves himself1 his 
,son1 and the eternal  ,spirit--it is a 
perfection of his nature1 boundless and 
incomprehensible4  ,this eternal ,three 
in the ,one ,jehovah1 hath condescended 
of his sovereign  goodwill and pleasure1
 to love and chuse millions of men1     
though fallen  and depraved1 guilty and 
hell-deserving--yet in a way of mercy1  
pity1 and  compassion1 determined to    
shew how far this love could go--the    

,covenant of  ,redemption being made in 
eternity1 wherein the ,father proposed  
to call  his dear ,son to engage in the 
,work of ,salvation--the ,son as        
graciously  accepting1 offering himself 
to be all1 and do all in the great ,work
 of  ,redemption1 it was purposed he    
should assume the nature of his         
people--for  this grand purpose1 that he
 might represent them1 obey1 suffer1 and
 die  for them2 for which he should be  
glorified in that nature--see the       
travail  of his soul1 and be delighted  
with all the happy consequences of his  
,work4  ,this being settled in infinite 
wisdom1 our dear ,lord anticipated  the 
pleasure of it before the world         
began--,my delights were with the ,sons 
of ,men4    ,on the sixth day of the    
creation he formed his creature1 ,man1  
in the  image in which he intended to   
appear four thousand years after4  ,his 
heart was so intent upon this great     
,work1 that directly after the ,fall1   
yea1 the very same day that ,adam       

sinned1 the dear ,redeemer hastened to  
make known the ,covenant of ,redemption 
and ,mercy--and even before he          
pronounced the ,curse in consequence of 
transgression1 he pronounced the        
,blessing6    ,adam heard the voice of  
the ,lord ,god walking in the           
,garden--the ,,word that  was to be made
 flesh1 that spoke for us in the        
,covenant--he came1 and  foretold his   
future incarnation--promised victory1   
and threatened ,satan1  who was the     
instigation of the ,fall4  ,he          
frequently manifested his  gracious     
intention--proved himself to be the     
glorious ,mediator1 and that  he longed 
to become incarnate1 to manifest his    
grace by dying in our  stead4  ,in the  
act of cloathing our guilty parents1 he 
shewed himself the  end of the ,law for 
,righteousness4  ,in ,abel's ,person and
 ,offering1 he  shewed himself the      
acceptable ,sacrifice--the ,lamb to take
 away sin4  ,in  the ,person of ,noah1  
the ,ark he built1 the ,sacrifice he    

offered1 the  ,covenant made with him in
 the ,rainbow 7as the outward sign of   
it7 were  sweet tokens of him who is    
mighty to save4  ,the ,blessing of      
,shem1  clearly pointed out his gracious
 intention--,god shall enlarge ,japheth1
  and ,,he 7,god7 shall dwell in the    
tents of ,shem4  ,the ,word was made    
flesh1 and dwelt among us4    ,he       
afterwards singles out ,abram1 the      
,father of the ,faithful1 7of the line  
of ,shem7 called him out of darkness1   
favored him with several glorious       
visions of himself1 as predicting his   
future incarnation1 for he saw his  day 
and was glad4  ,abraham1 under peculiar 
leadings of ,providence1 was  for a     
season1 situated at ,mamre1 where he    
built an altar to the ,lord4  ,this     
,mamre was in ,kirath-,arba1 afterwards 
called ,hebron1 where ,david  reigned   
for a season4  ,but1 alas1 a christian  
is seldom long at ease2 we  have no     
continuing city1 we seek one to come--no
 place1 or house1 or  family1 is free   

from trouble long together1 from the    
palace to the most  retired cot4  ,sad  
news was brought to ,abraham1 that his  
nephew1 ,lot1 was  taken prisoner1 and  
almost all his goods seized1 by         
,cherdorlaomer and his  allies1 who were
 at that time ravaging the country4     
,abraham directly  took his servants and
 friends and pursued the enemy to       
,hobah1 and  overtook their captives and
 the booty1 and of course restored ,lot4
    ,when ,abraham was returning from   
routing ,chedorlaomer and his allies1   
,melchisedec met him in the valley of   
,shaveh1 in the ,king's ,dale1 and      
tendered to him and his weary troops1 a 
refreshment of bread and wine4  ,he also
 blessed ,abraham1 and thanked ,god for 
giving him the victory4  ,abraham       
acknowledged him the ,priest of the     
,most ,high ,god1 and gave him  the     
tenth part of the spoil4  ,perhaps this 
was to shew ,god's approbation  of      
,abraham's conduct1 and to point out the
 future victories of our ,lord  ,jesus  

,christ on the ,cross1 in the hearts of 
his people1 and1 finally1  over mystical
 ,babylon1 and its kings--the recovery  
of his elect1 who lay  in the hands of  
,satan1 ,sin1 and ,law2 and of whom the 
,father had  covenanted with his dear   
,son1 that he should divide the spoil   
with the  strong1 because he poured out 
his soul unto death4  ,while all who are
  interested in this great ,work must   
exclaim1 ,unto him that washed us from  
sin in his own blood1 to him be glory4  
,amen4    ,now consider how great this  
,man was1 to whom ,abraham gave the     
tenth of  the spoil1 and that blessed   
,abraham2 and truly the less is blessed 
of the  greater4  ,may ,god the ,holy   
,spirit assist us in our views of this  
great  ,man1 the ,god-man ,mediator1 the
 ,priest1 the ,king1 the ,all in ,all4  
,we shall notice the opinion of others4 
,we propose then to examine the         
,scripture testimony of this great ,one1
 and to answer the objections which     
rise in the mind1 concerning the reality

 of this ,person being ,lord and        
,christ4  ,we shall finally notice the  
,nature of his ,blessings4    ,i believe
 the general opinion of this great ,man 
is1 that he was some ,king  of ,canaan1 
who was a good man1 but whose genealogy 
cannot be traced4  ,the  ,jews and      
,samaritans will have him to be ,shem1  
their ancestor4  ,the  ,arabians suppose
 him to be ,ham4  ,dr4 ,owen will have  
him to be a  descendant of ,japhet2 but 
how a descendant of ,japhet came to be a
 king of  ,canaan1 ,i know not4  ,some  
are inclined to think he fell from the  
,moon4  ,but all these ideas are too    
mean1 and none of them agree with what  
the  ,holy ,ghost has said of him4      
,many years ago there was a ,sect of    
,melchisedecian ,heretics1 who held that
 he was some celestial power or  virtue 
not revealed2 but that he was superior  
to ,christ1 and made  intercession for  
angels1 as the ,saviour did for ,men4   
,the most general  opinion is that he   
was merely a figure or type of our dear 

,lord2 but we  are about to prove he was
 more than the figure--he was the       
adorable  ,redeemer himself4  ,we are   
not to make any thing in ,scripture a   
type when  the ,scripture declares it is
 a substance1 and infinitely exceeds all
 the  figures4  ,our dear ,lord is      
certainly represented by many figures1  
but in  the case before us he is not2   
for the ,apostle1 treating upon the     
,subject1  not considering it as        
mystical but real4  ,he is not          
explaining a mystery1  but merely       
commenting upon a reality4  ,now        
consider how great this ,man            
was4--,perhaps no subject in the ,bible 
has had a greater diversity of  opinions
 than this1 and the reason is1 because  
,men are so dissatisfied  with the      
,spirit's testimony concerning him3 let 
us therefore notice the  ,apostle's own 
words1 and follow him in his comment1   
and there rest  satisfied4  ,this will  
lead us to answer a few objections as we
 proceed4    ,the ,apostle in this grand

 ,epistle1 is setting before the        
believing  ,hebrews the ,dignity1       
,majesty1 and ,glory of ,christ1 as the 
,christ of ,god4  ,he first proves him  
to be ,god over all1 equal with the     
,father in power  and glory1 in all his 
essential attributes4  ,he then shews   
how far he  excels the angels1 they     
being the work of his hands1 and he     
their great  ,creator2 and having       
accomplished the great ,work of         
,atonement1 he has  entered into his    
joy1 and is now representing our        
,persons before the  throne2 and as our 
great ,high ,priest1 still pleading the 
virtue of what  he has done1 before the 
,father4  ,in the three following       
,chapters he shews  the necessity there 
was that ,jesus1 our great ,high        
,priest1 should be  tried by temptation1
 that he might know how to succour the  
tempted--that  his people1 by believing1
 might find a ,sabbath of ,rest in him1 
he  encourages them to hold fast their  
profession1 seeing our great ,high      

,priest is passed into the heavens for  
them2 and as he knew what sore          
temptations meant1 they might warranty  
apply to him for all that grace  they   
wanted in time of need4  ,this is sweet 
encouragement to the ,lord's  tried     
ones4    ,in the #eth ,chapter1 the     
,apostle carries on the subject of the  
,priestly  ,office of ,christ1 knowing  
it to be of such vast importance to the 
,church4  ,he shews the commission of   
,jesus to act as ,high ,priest1 and     
they1 the  ,hebrews1 well knew that no  
man had a right to this ,office but he  
that was  called of ,god1 as was ,aaron4
  ,so our dear ,lord was called to it in
 the  ,covenant1 in which the ,father   
glorified him1 and as ,god-,man         
,mediator1  called him ,son1 and told   
him he should be a ,priest for ever1    
after a  peculiar ,order1 that is1 of   
,melchisedec3 his own ,order1 not of    
,levi or  ,aaron's1 but his own divine  
,order4--,the ,apostle then complains of
 these  ,believers1 they were dull of   

apprehension1 or else he would tell them
  many more very great things2 but they 
had had the ,gospel preached to them    
nearly thirty years1 yet had made little
 or no progress in the things of  ,god4 
,he complains that they were but babes  
in knowledge1 unskilful1  weak1 and had 
got no further than the first principles
 of the christian  ,religion1 which he  
begs they will leave1 and press after   
greater lessons  in the ,school of      
,christ1 namely1 ,the final             
,perseverence of ,god's elect1  though  
they might backslide1 and even some of  
them go such sad lengths1  as even to   
give up their profession for a time1    
that nothing short of the  precious     
blood of ,christ applied to their hearts
 by the ,spirit1 could  ever renew them 
to ,gospel repentance4  ,ministers could
 not--they could not  do it             
themselves--but a sight of ,christ1 put 
to open shame for them1 would  ever     
accomplish it4    ,the ,apostle proceeds
 to stimulate them to persevere in the  

good ways of  ,god1 notwithstanding     
their weakness1 sins1 infirmities1      
strange feelings1  and at times1 want of
 confidence--no heart to pray or        
believe1 but all  deadness1 darkness1   
and sorrow2 amidst all oppositions1 yet 
to keep on1  encouraged by this1 that a 
covenant ,god had provided every needful
 mercy  in ,christ2 that he has         
covenanted with him1 and all his seed in
 him1 that  they might have hope in his 
faithfulness1 and not in their own      
feelings  or experience1 which would    
waver1 or change4  ,but for the further 
encouragement of that hope1 he would    
have them remember1 that ,christ is     
their ,head and ,representative--that   
the ,father's love is the same to them  
as to him2 that ,christ and they are    
one2 that they are beheld in him        
complete2 and that as their ,high       
,priest1 he is perfect--done a perfect  
,work2 that he ever lives1 and that his 
great ,work he is now doing in  heaven1 
and will live to do for ever1 is simply1

 to bless his people1 as  he blessed    
their father1 ,abraham1 when he returned
 from battle4  ,and now1  oh ye         
believing ,hebrews1 ,consider how great 
this man was to whom ,abraham  gave a   
tenth part of the spoil4    ,passing by 
the curious conjectures of men1 let us  
attend to the mind of  the ,spirit1 and 
by close attention it will be clearly   
seen that the  ,melchisedec which met   
,abraham was the adorable ,redeemer     
himself4  ,we  begin with the #fth verse
 of me #eth ,chapter--,as he saith also 
in another  place1 ,,thou art a ,priest 
for ever1 after the ,order of           
,melchisedec1  ,,who in the days of     
,,his flesh1 offered up strong cries and
 tears to  ,god1 and was heard in that  
,,he feared--though ,,he were a ,,son1  
yet  learned ,,he obedience by the      
things which ,,he suffered1 and being   
made  perfect1 ,,he became the author of
 eternal salvation to all that obey     
,,him2 called of ,god an ,high ,priest1 
after the ,order of  ,melchisedec--of   

whom we have many things to say1 and    
hard to be  uttered1 seeing ye are dull 
of hearing4  ,can any point be more     
clear  than this2 ,the terms ,thou1     
,who1 ,he1 a ,son1 ,him1 in the days of 
his flesh--and surely if ,melchisedec   
had been a mere ,man1 ,paul would not   
have complained of the ,hebrews being   
dull of understanding this ,subject1  of
 ,god manifest in the flesh1 before his 
incarnation1 when he met  ,abraham1 and 
afterwards by actually taking our       
nature4    ,i would observe the         
connection between the last verse of the
 #fth ,chapter1  and the opening of the 
#gth4  ,the ,apostle1 encouraging       
,believers1 who fled  for refuge1 tells 
them their fore-runner is gone to       
heaven1 and is acting  there as ,high   
,priest for them1 after the ,order of   
,melchisedec--it is  essential to this  
,order only to make intercession in     
heaven4  ,from which  passage we may    
then conclude1 that ,melchisedec and the
 second ,person in  the ever blessed    

,trinity were1 and are the same2 for    
none but ,christ in  our nature ever    
did1 or will intercede for us in heaven4
    ,the ,apostle then goes on with this
 ,subject in the #gth ,chapter4  ,after 
declaring this ,melchisedec is in       
heaven1 interceding according to his own
  peculiar ,order1 he adds1 ,for ,,this 
,melchisedec1 ,king of ,salem1 ,priest  
of the ,most ,high ,god1 who met        
,abraham returning from the slaughter of
  the kings1 and blessed him--to whom   
also ,abraham gave a tenth part of  all4
  ,first1 being1 by interpretation1     
,king of ,salem1 which is1 ,king  of    
,peace--he being without ,father1       
without ,mother1 having neither         
beginning of days nor end of life1 but  
made like the ,son of ,god1  abideth a  
,priest continually4--,consider now1 how
 great this man  was4--,it is my grief1 
,i cannot read the ,greek for myself2   
but upon good  authority ,i have to     
remark1 that the verb ,substantive not  
to be used here  in any tense1 but must 

be read ,person--and is instead of      
was--so the  text should be read1 ,now  
consider how great this ,person is--the 
,person  who continues a ,priest for    
ever1 spoken of in the close of the #crd
 verse1  and which must be read in the  
tense the ,apostle speaks it4  ,from    
which it  appears plain1 that the       
,person who in the text met ,abraham1 is
 now in  heaven1 interceding for his    
,church4--,abraham gave him the tenth of
 the  spoil1 and therefore acknowledged 
him to be his divine ,priest and ,king4 
,the ,apostle then proceeds with the    
,subject1 and says1 7#eth verse7 that   
this glorious ,person1 this ,high       
,priest is not of the descent of ,levi1 
not  at all of that tribe--as all       
,priests that belonged thereto were     
imperfect  and died1 but this           
,melchisedec now receiveth tithes1      
because he is our  ever-living ,priest4 
,and at the close of the #hth verse the 
,apostle says1  ,it is witnessed of him 
that he liveth1 that is1 that he is     

alive now--and  in the #crd verse says1 
he abideth a ,priest continually4  ,this
 surely can  never be said of any mere  
man1 of any typical character1 of any   
,canaanitish ,king1 or any ,priest1 but 
our great ,melchisedec4  ,some may      
object that he may be said to live as   
many departed saints do1 but then  it   
could not be said of him that he        
continued to live in his ,office1  as a 
,priest for ever4    ,i think this      
,subject appears more clearly by the    
titles the ,holy ,ghost  gives him4     
,the ,apostle having asserted the       
identity of the ,person1 goes  on to    
prove the fact1 by the name             
,melchisedec1 ,king of ,righteousness4  
,this title belongs to ,jesus only1 of  
whom it was prophesied1 ,behold a  ,king
 shall reign in righteousness1 and      
,princes shall rule in judgment4  ,this 
was first accomplished upon the         
ascension of our dear ,lord1 when he    
was exalted at the ,father's right-hand1
 and the decree went forth that  all men

 should bow to him4  ,this shews him to 
be the righteousness of his  people1 and
 that he fills ,zion with it2 and that  
one day he will appear  as the judge of 
quick and dead1 and act before assembled
 worlds1 as a  righteous ,judge--,king  
of ,righteousness4    ,the next title is
 ,king of ,peace--as the author1 the    
preacher1 and  revealer of all ,peace1  
external1 internal1 and eternal4  ,this 
title some  have conjectured belonged to
 some ,canaanitish king who reigned in  
,salem1  afterwards called              
,jerusalem4--,but the ,apostle tells the
 ,hebrews to regard  the meaning of the 
title1 ,king of ,peace--though the time 
of his actual  reigning in ,jerusalem   
was not come1 nor will it till the      
latter day  glory4  ,at present he is   
,king of ,peace1 in the ,gospel1 in the 
,conscience1  and in ,mount             
,zion4--,without ,father4--,the human   
nature he had assumed at  that time1 in 
which he appeared to ,abraham1 was      
without ,father or ,mother1  without    

,descent2 for as a ,priest1 the ,apostle
 is proving the fact1 that  he had no   
predecessors or successors1 so of       
course1 unlike the tribe of  ,levi4  ,as
 ,god1 he was without ,father2 the      
divine nature was underived1  not       
begotten4  ,he is the ,son of ,god1 in  
his official capacity1 but not in  the  
divine essence4  ,his human nature was  
without ,father--8,the ,son of ,man  but
 no ,man's ,son10 ,erskine4--,without   
,mother4  ,the body1 the likeness1  the 
form in which he appeared to ,abraham1  
was without ,mother1 for it was  many   
years afterwards he was born of the     
,virgin2 and though she had the  honour 
to bear him yet she was purely passive  
is the act of the formation  of his     
nature4  ,in these same senses he was   
without ,descent--he had no             
predecessors or successors1 as ,god1 or 
as the ,high ,priest of our             
,profession4  ,hence he is said to be   
the first and the last2 if so1 then     
there were none before him1 and there   

can be none after him4  ,the  objection 
to this expression is1 that it only     
refers to a want of the  knowledge of   
his ,genealogy2 but though this might be
 the case of some  persons1 or of any1  
yet they certainly descended from some  
one4  ,it might  as well be argued that 
because ,i stand alone1 and never heard 
of any one  relation in the world1 that 
,i was without descent4  ,but then the  
,apostle  speaks in stronger terms      
still1 and which can only be applied to 
,divinity  itself--having neither       
beginning of days1 nor end of life3 this
  expression must refer to his ,divine  
,nature4  ,he is himself the beginning1 
in whom ,god made all things4  ,in the  
beginning ,god created ,heaven and      
,earth2 that is1 in ,christ2 he was in  
the beginning with ,god1 one with him   
in the council and secret purposes of   
,god2 as well as the everlasting  ,god2 
nor will he ever die as ,man any more4  
,as ,priest he never did die at  all2 as
 ,god1 in his ,divine ,nature1 it is    

impossible4  ,as the glorious           
,mediator1 he ever lives1 and all who   
are united to him live also4--    ,but  
made like the ,son of ,god4  ,this      
expression1 like1 seems dark to  many at
 first sight1 but when we look at the   
,subject altogether1 it is  very clear  
that none can be like ,god but ,god     
himself4  ,none can be like  such a     
,priest1 after such an ,order1 but the  
,high ,priest1 ,jesus himself4  ,the    
body he was to assume from the          
beginning1 he frequently assumed a      
likeness of4  ,hence ,nebuchadnezzar saw
 one like the ,son of ,god in the       
,furnace4  ,now no christian can for a  
moment disbelieve that this was         
,christ2 and that1 long before his      
incarnation1 the likeness that appeared 
was the likeness of his body1 now       
glorified4  ,this appeared to ,joshua1  
to  ,moses1 to ,lot1 to ,abraham1       
,jacob1 ,ezekiel1 and ,john4--,these all
 saw the  likeness of the body that is  
now in heaven4  ,so that this ,son of   

,god  appeared like the ,son of ,god1   
after his glorification4  ,he loved our 
nature so well that he anticipated the  
assumption of it2 he rejoiced in  the   
habitable parts of the earth1 and his   
delights were with the ,sons of  ,men4  
,this the dear ,redeemer shewed         
frequently1 by his visits to our  earth1
 in the likeness of that body which is  
now raised and glorified1  and to which 
likeness the bodies of ,god's elect are 
predestinated to be  conformed4    ,i   
would make the remark here1 as we have  
answered the above objection1 so        
another is started1 ,how1 and in what   
sense could this ,melchisedec  receive  
tithes8  ,and1 if a divine ,person1     
,what did he do with them8  ,on this ,i 
must confess there is a difficulty4     
,paul says he met  ,abraham--yet the    
word 7as say the learned7 means being in
 company  together4  ,we shall now      
investigate this ,subject a little1 and 
attend to  its signification4    ,if    
this ,melchisedec was only a            

,canaanitish ,king1 ,i can see no reason
 why  ,abraham should give him the tenth
 of the spoils he had taken in battle2  
for ,i do not read of any king assisting
 in this war1 or even minding the       
stuff1 or guarding the coast2 for it    
seems to have been a law among the      
warriors to divide the spoil1 as in the 
#ast of ,samuel1 #cjth ,chap4  ,but  as 
his part shall be that goeth to battle1 
so shall his be that  tarrieth by the   
stuff1 they shall part alike4  ,now     
considering how  great this ,man was 7or
 this ,person is7 to whom ,abraham gave 
the tenth1  we are prone to ask those   
questions that are of no importance to  
us1 as1  ,if this was ,christ1 what use 
could they be to him--and what did he do
 with  them8  ,we may as well ask1 ,how 
the ,lord and his attendants eat1 when  
,abraham made an entertainment at the   
tent door--they appeared to him to  eat4
  ,so1 after his resurrection from the  
dead they gave him a piece of  broiled  
fish and of an honey comb1 and he took  

it1 and did eat before  them4  ,this may
 lead us to ask still more curious      
questions1 as1 ,what  body was it in    
which our ,lord made those appearances1 
and what became of  it8  ,these things  
we must die to know2 it is but of little
 consequence to  us now--what tithes    
,abraham gave him he knew how to dispose
 of4--,but in  this instance the glory  
of our ,lord appears2 for it is clear no
 man on  earth was so great as ,abraham2
 so the ,apostle argues1 and truly the  
less  is blessed of the                 
greater--,abraham1 the less1 was blessed
 of ,melchisedec1  the greater4  ,this  
was peculiar to his ,order only1 nor    
does there want  another ,priest to     
arise after his similitude1 seeing he   
ever liveth to  represent his people4   
,there was undoubtedly something of     
importance in this act of ,abraham's1   
and in which we may see1 ,first1        
,abraham's gratitude to the ,captain of 
his ,salvation1 who had given him       
success in this war1 which was just and 

necessary4  ,so we find the ,israelites 
devoted a part of the spoils taken  in  
battle1 to the ,lord1 and the rest was  
divided among them1 7,see  ,numbers     
xxxi1 #be v4 to the end74--,when ,jacob 
vowed to the ,lord1 he said1  ,of all   
thou shall give me ,i will surely give  
the tenth unto thee2--and  hence in his 
posterity we find the tenth of their    
portions were to be  consecrated to the 
,lord1 and this tenth1 so devoted1 was a
 type of ,god's  elect1 ,jews and       
,gentiles1 who were to be devoted to his
 service4  ,god1 by  the ,prophet       
,isaiah1 ,chap4 vi1 says1 ,but yet in it
 shall be a tenth1  and it shall return 
and shall be eaten4  ,abraham giving the
 tenth to  ,melchisedec1 and keeping the
 rest1 7thus dividing the spoil7 was an 
exhibition of what the ,saviour would   
do1 actually1 when he should divide  the
 spoil with the strong2 when he should  
rise up early to the prey1 and  in the  
evening of his death divide the         
spoil--give to ,god's ,law and  ,justice

 infinite satisfaction--to his people   
all the blessings he secured1  and get  
to himself a name above every other1    
that at his name every knee  should     
bow4--,thus he divides the spoil1       
because he poured out his soul  unto    
death4  ,so in the hearts of his elect1 
by the conquest of his grace1  when he  
spoils the works of the ,devil in us1 as
 well as for us1 and by  ,faith1 leads  
us to get victory over every sin and    
every fear1 and enables  us to give him 
the heart in a way of love1 the mind in 
his service1 and  all our powers devoted
 to his glory1 body1 soul1 and spirit1  
time and  talents3 this is giving him   
the tenth4  ,we have got the blessings  
he has  enabled us to get by ,prayer and
 ,faith1 and we give him the glory due  
to  his holy name--while he oft         
refreshes us with himself as the ,bread 
of  ,life1 fills us with the ,wine of   
his love1 and blesses us with communion 
with himself--so we give him tithes of  
all--hence the ,apostle says1 that  he  

now receiveth them4--,thirdly4  ,this   
act may be a type of that  important    
period when our glorious ,high ,priest  
will receive his elect at  his second   
coming1 when the faithful of whom       
,abraham was a figure1 will  come from  
their graves1 and meet ,jesus--and he   
will come from the third  heaven and    
meet them1 introduce them into the      
heavenly country1 the new  heaven and   
earth4  ,here our ,priest will bless us1
 and here we shall cast  our crowns at  
his dear feet1 and sing--,worthy the    
,lamb that was slain4  ,thus we shall   
give him tithes of all4    ,the ,dignity
 and ,identity of this glorious ,person 
may be clearly seen by  the nature of   
his ,priestly ,office--this is what the 
,apostle is proving by  a quotation from
 the #aajth ,psalm--,thou art a ,priest 
for ever1 after  the ,order of          
,melchisedec4  ,how mean is the common  
idea that he was a  ,canaanitish king1  
and that ,christ is a ,priest after his 
order4  ,had  ,christ been constituted a

 ,priest after any ,order of human      
,beings1 it  would have been after the  
,order of ,aaron1 a ,priest of ,god's   
own  appointment2 but ,christ is a      
,priest after his own ,order4  ,when    
,god means  to swear he swears by       
himself1 because there is no            
greater--when he means  to draw a       
similitude of himself he likens himself 
to himself2 and when  ,jesus reveals    
himself as a ,priest after an ,order1 it
 is his own ,order1  and his glory will 
he not give to another4    ,the ,apostle
 in this ,epistle1 is setting forth the 
,divinity and ,glory of  ,jesus1 as     
,god-,man ,mediator2 and shews how far  
he excels angels1 and then  how far he  
excelled ,moses4  ,he then points out   
how far he excelled ,aaron2  and in his 
,office of ,high ,priest1 how far he    
excelled all the ,priests of  the       
,levitical ,order--they were mere men1  
he the ,god-,man--they were mortal  and 
died1 he was immortal1 and ever lived4  
,the fact is1 that the ,son of  ,god    

having finished the great ,work of      
,redemption1 sat down on the  right-hand
 of ,god1 agreeably to what is said in  
the #aajth ,psalm--,the  ,lord said to  
my ,lord1 sit at my right-hand1 for     
,,thou art a ,priest for  ever4  ,this  
makes it evident that the ,priests under
 the ,old ,testament  ,dispensation     
typified ,jesus1 as exercising his      
,priestly ,office before his  ascension2
 but the ,order of our ,melchisedec is  
appearing in a glorified  state1 at the 
right-hand of the ,majesty in heaven1   
representing and  blessing his people4  
,this is the ,order the ,father         
appointed him1 and in  this he          
continues4  ,this he revealed to        
,abraham1 and in the act of  blessing   
him shewed what he was to be and do1    
upon his glorification1  after his      
battle was over1 of which ,abraham's war
 was but a faint shadow4  ,that         
,melchisedec is the ,son of ,god appears
 evident from his call to the           
,priesthood4  ,so the ,apostle has      

coupled these two texts together in the 
#eth ,chapter--,thou art my ,son1 this  
day have ,i begotten thee4  ,as he      
saith1 also1 in another place4  ,thou   
art a ,priest for ever1 after  the      
,order of ,melchisedec4  ,from which we 
must infer that ,melchisedec is  the    
eternal ,son of ,god--for ,god declaring
 ,christ to be his ,son1 was at the     
same time constituting him a ,priest for
 ever1 after his own ,order1 as  ,king  
of ,righteousness and ,peace1 fulfilling
 the one1 and making the other  for his 
,church4  ,upon his ascension he was to 
abide a ,priest and ,king for  ever--the
 eternity of his ,priesthood clearly    
demonstrates the fact--the  term for    
ever--a ,priest for ever4  ,this was    
essential to his ,order1  eternal       
,priesthood1 therefore he must be       
eternal1 which could never be  said of  
any mere man--of course the ,son1 or    
second ,person1 is the  ,melchisedec    
that met ,abraham1 that now liveth and  
abideth4  ,the  ,apostle also declares  

that his ,order is ,perfection1 and the 
,power of an  endless ,life1 in         
opposition to the ,levitical            
,priesthood1 which was  imperfect1 and  
they carnal men4--,the ,father's        
language to the ,son in the  #aajth     
,psalm1 according to the learned        
,morrison's ,scripture  ,dictionary1 is 
rendered literally in the original1     
,jehovah hath sworn1  and will not      
repent1 ,thou art a ,priest for ever1   
upon or according  to my ,word1 ,o      
,,melchisedec4  ,this is addressed from 
the ,father to the  ,son1 and to no     
other ,person4  ,on this verse1 the good
 ,dr4 ,hawker  remarks1 that the        
,psalmist is tracing up the ,subject to 
the everlasting  ,council of ,peace     
between them both1 in ,jehovah          
swearing-in ,christ into  his ,priestly 
,office1 even that of an everlasting    
,priesthood4  ,these  things cannot be  
said of any mere man2 nor does it any   
where assert that  ,melchisedec was a   
type--but the above arguments clearly   

prove he was the  eternal ,son of ,god2 
and to doubt this1 or be ignorant of it1
 the ,apostle  declares the ,hebrews    
were dull of hearing2 and surely so are 
many of  ,god's people1 to this day1    
upon this ,subject--therefore1 ,consider
 now how  great this ,person is--he is  
called the great ,god1 the great        
,saviour1  great ,king1 great ,prince1  
great ,shepherd1 great ,high ,priest2   
great in his  nature1 his love1 his     
mercy1 his wisdom1 his glory1 his grace1
 his power2  and these he delights to   
shew to his dear people1 who are called 
upon to  consider him--these are said to
 fly for refuge to him1 to cast anchor  
within the veil1 either of his flesh1   
and lay hold of his eternal  ,divinity1 
or into ultimate glory1 and view ,jesus 
as an ever-living  ,priest1 carrying on 
their cause1 representing their         
,persons1 pleading the  virtue of his   
blood and righteousness1 and abideing   
till all his foes  become his footstool1
 and the mystery of ,god shall be       

finished2 then the  ,son will deliver up
 the mediatorial kingdom to the ,father1
 and ,god1  ,father1 ,son1 and ,spirit  
shall be all in all4    ,the last       
consideration is1 ,the ,work he carries 
on as a ,priest1 under  this peculiar   
,order4  ,the ,priest under the old     
,law1 no doubt1 typified  him2 but      
perhaps very little further as types    
than his death1 or entering  into the   
,holy of ,holies4  ,here they as types  
fail1 and we see ,jesus of  another     
,order1 and under a different view1 upon
 his glorification1 carry  on his       
,priestly ,office in heaven4  ,aaron the
 ,high ,priest1 in many things  typified
 him1 tho' ,christ was not of that      
,order1 but of the tribe of  ,judah1 of 
which ,moses spake nothing pertaining to
 the ,priesthood4  ,but  our dear ,lord 
is become the author of eternal         
salvation to his people1  and still     
officiates as an ,high ,priest after his
 own ,order--and this ,order  is not to 
make an atonement1 or fulfil the ,law1  

this he had done2 but  exalted to bless 
his people for ever4--,this ,office was 
shewed to ,abraham  when ,christ met    
him1 and refreshed him with bread and   
wine1 a figure of  his body and blood1  
which were to be offered up in          
sacrifice1 and upon  that offering his  
intercession was founded1 and all       
blessings are  dispensed by him1 as it  
followed1 and he blessed ,abraham4      
,hence1 having  purged our sins1 he has 
sat down at his ,father's right-hand to 
bless us  for evermore4  ,this is       
peculiar to his ,order only1 for this he
 ever  lives4  ,perhaps every blessing  
he communicates as a ,priest1 is        
included  in that prescribed form the   
,priests used under the old ,law1       
,numbers #fth  ,chap1 verse #bb1 to the 
close4    ,he met1 and blessed ,abraham 
with ,righteousness and ,peace2 and to  
this day  he gives the same to us1 for  
as many as are of ,faith are blessed    
with  faithful ,abraham4  ,hence the    
benediction1 the ,lord give thee ,peace4

  ,and  the ,apostle says1 ,he is       
exalted to give ,repentance and         
,remission of  ,sins--thy sins are      
forgiven thee2 go in peace4  ,he blesses
 us with  converting grace4  ,god hath  
sent his ,son to bless us1 by turning us
 from  our iniquities1 with a better    
righteousness4  ,david describeth the   
blessedness of the man to whom the ,lord
 imputeth righteousness without  works1 
with the adoption of children--to them  
gave he power to become the  ,sons of   
,god--with spiritual life4  ,the ,lord  
commanded his blessing on  ,mount ,zion1
 even life for evermore4  ,he blesses   
them with his preserving  power2 his    
guiding ,spirit in all his ,offices2 the
 light of his  countenance2 a new nature
 and a new name--these are all included 
in his  ,priestly ,benediction1 which   
the ,priests could only pronounce1 and  
we can  only pray for1 but which it is  
his glory to give1 as our               
,melchisedec--the  ,lord bless thee and 
keep thee--the ,lord make his face to   

shine upon  thee1 and be gracious unto  
thee--the ,lord lift up his countenance 
upon  thee1 and give thee peace4  ,and  
they shall put my name upon the         
,children of ,israel1 and ,i will bless 
them4  ,this act of the ,redeemer's     
intercession and blessing1 is in an     
authoritative way--,father ,i will that 
those whom thou hast given me1 be with  
me where ,i am1 that they may  behold my
 glory--which ,god grant us             
all4--,,amen4                           
99 99 99 99 99    ,thus we have         
endeavoured to prove that ,christ is the
 true ,melchisedec1  without a type or  
figure--that he was not ,shem1 nor his  
,grandson1 nor an  earthly ,king1       
however pious2 but that it was ,jesus   
appearing in the  likeness in which he  
should appear for ever1 before the      
throne1 to bless  his people in4  ,this 
fact we have attempted to prove from    
express  passages1 from his glorious    
titles1 from the peculiarity of his     
,order1  and the nature of his ,work1 as

 a ,priest4    ,for a most judicious    
handling of this ,subject ,i refer my   
,readers to  ,,morrison',s ,,bibliotheca
 ,,sacra--to which ,i am much indebted4 
,,an ,,hymn4          ,,king of ,salem1 
bless my soul6      ,make a wounded     
sinner whole6      ,king of             
righteousness and peace1      ,let not  
thy sweet visits cease4        ,come1   
refresh this soul of mine      ,with thy
 sacred bread and wine2      ,all thy   
love to me unfold1      ,half of which  
cannot be told4        ,hail1           
,melchisedec divine6      ,thou great   
,high ,priest shalt be mine2      ,all  
my powers before thee fall--      ,take 
not tythe1 but take them all4           
99 99 99 99 99                          
,,finis4