{"id":"18.1","chapter":18,"number":1,"text":"This Priesthood was not legall, or temporary, but according to the order of Melchisedec; not by a carnall commandement, but by the power of an endlesse life; not by an order that is weak and lame, but stable and perfect; not for a time, but for ever, admitting no successor, but perpetuall and proper to Christ, and of him that ever liveth. Christ himselfe was the Priest, Sacrifice and Altar: he was Priest, according to both natures, hee was a sacrifice most properly according to his humane nature: whence in the Scripture it is wont to be attributed to his body, to his blood; yet the chiefe force whereby this sacrifice was made effectuall, did depend upon his divine nature, namely, that the Sonne of God did offer himselfe for us: he was the Altar properly according to his divine nature, it belonging to the Altar to sanctifie that which is offered upon it, and so it ought to be of greater dignity then the Sacrifice it selfe.","segments":[{"text":"This Priesthood was not legall, or temporary, but according to the order of Melchisedec;","proofs":["Hebrews 7:17"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 7:17","osis":["Heb.7.17"]}],"note":null},{"text":"not by a carnall commandement, but by the power of an endlesse life;","proofs":["Hebrews 7:16"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 7:16","osis":["Heb.7.16"]}],"note":null},{"text":"not by an order that is weak and lame, but stable and perfect; not for a","proofs":["Hebrews 7:18–21"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 7:18–21","osis":["Heb.7.18-Heb.7.21"]}],"note":null},{"text":"time, but for ever, admitting no successor, but perpetuall and proper to Christ, and of him that ever liveth. Christ himselfe was the Priest, Sacrifice and Altar: he was","proofs":["Hebrews 7:24–25"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 7:24–25","osis":["Heb.7.24-Heb.7.25"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Priest, according to both natures, hee was a sacrifice most properly according to his humane nature:","proofs":["Hebrews 5:6"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 5:6","osis":["Heb.5.6"]}],"note":null},{"text":"whence in the Scripture it is wont to be attributed to his body, to his blood; yet the chiefe force whereby this sacrifice was made effectuall, did depend upon his","proofs":["Hebrews 10:10","1 Peter 1:18–19","Colossians 1:20, 22","Isaiah 53:10","Matthew 20:28"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 10:10","osis":["Heb.10.10"]},{"printed":"1 Peter 1:18–19","osis":["1Pet.1.18-1Pet.1.19"]},{"printed":"Colossians 1:20, 22","osis":["Col.1.20","Col.1.22"]},{"printed":"Isaiah 53:10","osis":["Isa.53.10"]},{"printed":"Matthew 20:28","osis":["Matt.20.28"]}],"note":null},{"text":"divine nature, namely, that the Sonne of God did offer himselfe for us: he was the","proofs":["Acts 20:28","Romans 8:3"],"refs":[{"printed":"Acts 20:28","osis":["Acts.20.28"]},{"printed":"Romans 8:3","osis":["Rom.8.3"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Altar properly according to his divine nature, it belonging to the Altar to sanctifie that which is offered upon it, and so it ought to be of greater dignity then the Sacrifice it selfe.","proofs":["Hebrews 9:14","13:10, 12, 15","Matthew 23:17","John 17:19"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 9:14","osis":["Heb.9.14"]},{"printed":"13:10, 12, 15","osis":["Heb.13.10","Heb.13.12","Heb.13.15"]},{"printed":"Matthew 23:17","osis":["Matt.23.17"]},{"printed":"John 17:19","osis":["John.17.19"]}],"note":null}],"relations":{"flcf1646":["18.1"]},"diffs":[{"source":"flcf1646","type":"later","segments":[{"text":"not by a carnall commandement, but by the power of an endlesse life; not by an order that is weak","position":null},{"text":"lame, but","position":null},{"text":"admitting no successor, but perpetuall and proper","position":null},{"text":"and of","position":null},{"text":"himselfe","position":1},{"text":"most properly","position":null},{"text":"the","position":4},{"text":"wont to be","position":null},{"text":"o","position":37},{"text":"chiefe force whereby","position":null},{"text":"was made effectuall,","position":null},{"text":"namely, that","position":null},{"text":"Sonne","position":null},{"text":"did offer himselfe for us:","position":null},{"text":"properly","position":2}]}],"page":"B2r","leaf":6}