Hebrews — Chapter 1

to be onein moit excellent (ore. Firft then,a Prieft muft not be an Angel, orofany othernature butmans. Secondly, euery man is not 2 Prieft, bur fuch an one asis tpe- cially chofen out of the rett,and preferred before other of tne community, feuercd,aflumpted, and exaltedinto ahigher ftate and dignitie then the vulgar. Thirdly, the cauie and purpofe why heis fo fequeftred and piked out trom the refidue, isto take charge of Diuine things, to deale asame- diatur betvvixt God and tue people, to be the Deputie of men in fuch things as they haue to craue orro receiue of God, and to prefent or giueto him againe. Fourthly, the moft proper and prin- cipal part of a Priefts otfice is, to offer oblations, giftes, and facrifices to God for the dinnes of the people: yvithout which kind of moft foueraine dueties, no perion, people, or Commonwealth can appertaine to God : and which can be done by none, of wvhat other dignitie or calling foever he be inthe vvorld, thatis nota Prich: diuers Princes (as vve readin the Scriptures) punif hed by God, and king Saul depoted from his kingdom, {pecially for atrempting the tame. And generally vve may iearne bere, that in ys qua junt ad Deum, in all matrers rouchirg God, . his feruice, and religion , the Prieft hath onely charge and authority: asthe Prince temporal is the The Princes peoples gouernour, guider, and foueraine, in the tuings touching their vvorldly affaires: Wvhich *¢™poral au- muft for al that by him be direGted and manneged no otherwvile, buras isagreabie tothe dus thoririe how vvorfhip and feruice of God. againft vvhich it the rerrene Povyers commitany thing, tne Pneits £27 35 exten ough: co admonifh them from God. Ceth. Vve learne alfo hereby, that every oneis nora Prieft, and thatthe pecple muft alvvaies hare ; certaine perions chofen out from among them, to deale ip their futesand caufesvvith God, to There isape- pray, to minifter Sacraments, and to dacnfice for them. And vvhereas the Frotcftants vvil have no Prieft, Priefthod, nos (acrince, bet Chrift and nis death, pretending -hefe vvordes of the Apoftle zo be verified oneiy’ in the Priefthod and Seruice of the old lavv, and Chrilzes perfon alone, and T'riefts of the after him of no moe: therein they Chevy them telues ro be ignorant of the Scriptures, and ofthe new. T efta- {tare of che nevv Teftament, and induce a plaine Atheitméand Godleinefle intro the world. for, Ment. fo long as man hath ro aoe vvitn God, there mult needes be fome deputed , and chofen outfron: Friefts and fa- among the reft, to deale according to this declaration of the Apoftls, in things pertaining to Gad, “rifice necefic- and thote mult be Pricfts. forels,itmen needeto dealeno more, burimmeaiatly with Chnft, me iniue new yvhat doe they \ vith their Minifters ? Vvhy let they not cuery man psay, and minifter for him fel:, T efiament yc and to him fei: :Vvhat doe they vvith Sacraments.teing Cinriltes deathisas vveliuficientvvithou: Nothing cero- them,as vvitneut tacrifice? Vvny ftandeth not his deatn as vvel vvith Sacrince,as vviin Sacraments: farorie to as vvel vwith Pricfthod,as vvith orher Eccletiaftical tur@io? There is no other cauie inthe vvorld, Chrifts pricit- but chat (Sacrifice veing the moft principal a@ of religion that man ovveth to God, both by his hod or dacri- Lavy,and sy theiavy ornature) the Diuel by thefe his minifters , vider pretence of detertirg or nce. attributing the more to Chrites aeath,vvould abolith iz. This definition ot a Pricft and his funétion, vvith al the properties thereto belongirg holdeth The diference notone!. inthe lavv of Moyles, and order of Aarons Prielthod, butitvvastmebciore, inthe and cxcellen- javy of nature, inthe Patriarcnes, in Melchifeaec, and novyin Chrift, andclinis Apcfties,and cie of C brifts Prietes oftne nevy Teftament: lauing thatit isa peculiar excellencie in Chrift,that he onely offered Priefthod. for other mens finnes,and nocatail tor his ovyne, as all ouher doe. [BOOK_CORRECTED: Phlm→Heb by manual review]

redemption and remifsion, as the Hebrues (againft vvhom the Apoitle difputeth ) did thinke, and had had no relation to Chriftes facrifice on the Croffe orany other abfoluce and yniuer{al oblation or remedie for finne, but by andor¢ their owne etficacie could haue generally purged and cleanted man ofall finne and dam- nation: then they fhould neuer haue needed to be fo often repeated and reiterated. For being both’ generally available for ail,by their opinion, aod particutarly applied (in as Thelevyes f- ample fort as they could be) to the feueral infirmities of euery offender , there had been cniices vvere no finnes left. But innes did remaine, euen thofe finnes for yvhich they had offered facri- nor ablolute & fices before, notvvithf{tanding their facritices vvere particularly applied vrto them. For, independér, be- offering yerely they did not onely offer facrifices for the new committed crimes , bureuen caute theyvvers for the oid, for vvhich they had often facrificed betore : the facrifices being rather recor- often repeated. des and atteftations of their Ganes, then aredemptior or full remifsion, as Chriites death is. Vvbich being once applied to man by Baptifme, vvipethaWay all Jinnes pait, God neuer remembring them any more, nor cuer any: facrifice or facrament or ceremonic being made or done for them any more , though for new Gnnes other remedies be datiy re- quifite. Their facritices then could not of them {clues remiite fianes , much letle make the general redemption vwvithout relation to Chriftes Pafsion. And foyou fee itis plaine euery The Apoitt vvhere, that the Apoftle proveth not by the often repetition of the lewifh facrinces, that roue h P the they vvere no facrifices at all, bucthat they vvere not of that abfolute force or cificacie , to Pen . tin make redemption or any remifsion, vvithout dependance ofthe one vaiuer {ai redemption of the eereg by Chrift: his vvhole purpofe being , toinculcate vntothem ihe necefsitie of © hrittes factifices, not death, and the. oblation of the new Teftameant. As for the Churches holy tacrince, it is that they vvere cleane of an other kinde thenthofe ofthe ]ewes, and therfore. be maketh no oppolition none, but that beiwixt it,and C briftes death or facrifice on the Crofle, in allthis Epiftie: butrather asa) overe not {equelc ofthat one general oblation,. couertly alvvaics inferreth the fame: as Leing ina nb olate & fuf- different maner the very felffame hoft and offering that vyas done vpon the Crofie, ang con- Fiene tinually is vvrought by the felf fame Prieft. ; . 4: impoffible.} The hoites and facrifices of the old law, yvhich the carnal lewes made Kkkk ij the facriice of 628 THE EPISTLE OF S. DAVL Cra. X _ ali che count of,vvithour relation to Chriftes death, vvere not onely nos perfect and abfo- The old facri- jure (ufficient in them felues, bur they did nor, nor could not remit any finnes at all, bein fices remitted put onely fignes therof, referring the offenders for remifsionin deele, to Chriftes bat not Gnnes, but fon. For the bloud of bruit beaftes could haue no other effect, nor any other element or vvere only creature , before Chriftes death. the fruite vvhereof, before-it vvas extant, could bene fignes therof- orheryvife properly applied vato them, but by beleefe in him. [BOOK_CORRECTED: Phlm→Heb by manual review]

peopiein things pertaining to God, that they take not that honour os office arthcir ovvne and preachers hands. burt by la: viul calling and contecration,cuen as Aaron did, By vvhich cianicifyou examine ™ nft Le law- Luther, Caluin, Beza, and tie like, or ital fuch as novwva daies intrude them feluesin‘o facred fun- fully cated étious, locke into their confciences, great and foul matter of damnation wvil appearc. thereto. §- Did not giorifie him fel, “Tne oignity of Priefthod mult needes be pafling highand fone- Toe dignine raine, vvhenit \vasa promotion and pretcrment inthe fonne of God him feltaccording to his & fercion c¢ manhod, and vvhen he vvould nor viuspe, portake vpon him the fame, vwthouthis farhersex- i-riehinod 35 Hhhh prefic culiar order & calling of 610 THE EPISTLE OF S. PAVL CHa, Y. notto be vfur- ; 4 prefle commifion and calling therevnto. Aa ererna! example of humility,and an argument of con- ped. demnation toal moztai men, that arrogate vniultly any fundtion ur po. ver tpiritual, that is aor _ giuen them from aboue,and by lavvtul calling.aod cummillon ot their tuperiors. [BOOK_CORRECTED: Phlm→Heb by manual review]

Apoitle vrgeth (peciai:. uis Prieithod , as the more Prieft & king: excellent and preeminent ftate in him , our Redentption being vvrought & atchiewed dy {acrifice, but his Prieft- which vvasan ad of his Priefthod, and noi of his kingly povver. though ne vras properly a king hod more ex- allo, as Melchifedec yvas boch Prieit, and king, being a retemblance of Chrittin both , but much ilent of the Morein bis Prictthod. And our Lord had this excellent double dignitie (as appsareth by the aif ce courte of S, Paul, and his allegations here out of the Pfalmes) at the very firlt mumentorhiscon- Pfats a. Cheifta Prieft S¢Ptom or incarnation. for you muft bewvare of the vvicked heretie of tne Arians and Caluinifts 109+ he is man (excepcin cheic later it be racher an errour proceding of ignorance)thag fticke not to fay that Chrift as s he is vvas a Prieit, or did facrifice, according to his Godhead. Vvhichis to make Chrift,God the fathers not 3 Prieit , and noc his fonne , and to doe sacritice and homage to him as his Lord, and neras his equal God. in dignity and nature. Thertore S. Augpitine {aith in Pjal. 109. Thas a be vussman, hevves Prisft : as God,hevvas not Prie/t.And Theodorete in PLalro9. o45 man, he aid offer facrifice:out as God, be did receine jacrifice. And againe,Chrijt toching bis humanity yvas called « Prie/t and he offered no other hoft bus bis avune body. ec. Dialog. 1 circa med, Some of owr nevy Maiiters noc knovving fo much, Repeng, did let fall out of cheir pennes the contrarie, and being admonithed ofthe errour, and tnat it vas 3 very Arianifme, yet they periift in it of mere ignorance in the groundes of Diuinitie. he (acrifice 7. With a ftrong erie, Though our Sauiour make intercetfion for vs,according to his humane The tac ffe nature, cOtinually in heauen alforyer he doch notin any external creatures make facritice,nor vie the on he prin. praiers tacnificall,by vvhich our redemption vvas atchieued,as he did in the time of his mortal life, vi Geo and in the a of his Pailion, and moft principally, vvhen vvith aloud voice, and vvith this praies, cipal ace, gy. (7 mans suas commends (pirttum meum , he voluntarily depoied his foul , yelding icin mott proper Lue. 233, Chrifts prielt- (ore fora tacrifice. for in that latt point of his death,contuiteth fpecially his high Prieltly office,and 46 hod. the very vvorke and confummation of our redemption, . . Obierue more ouer, that though commonly ewery faithful perfon pray both for him felfand Priefts Prat ochers,and offer his ptaiers to God, yet none offereth by othce,and {pecial deputation,amd appoint- 3 avian ~ ment,in the perfon of the vvhole Church and people, fauing the Prieft. Vvhote praiers thertore be more effectual in them felues, for that they be rine voice of all fairhful men cogether,made by him As Pri thac is appointed and receiued of God forthe peoples legate, And of this kind vvere ail Chriftes Chrifts Prie- 5 saiers, ia all his life and death, as all his other actions werezhis fa(ting, vvacching, preaching, infti- fily actions. = wring, miniftring,or receiuing Sacraments: euery one being donc as Priettly adions, , . 7- For his reneronce.j Thete vvordes hauc our Englifb Tranilators perniciouily and moft pre- _ Notori0us timpruoutly corrupted, turning them thus, im shat vvbich he feared , comtrari¢ to the verfion and Heretical t4- fenie of alantiquity , and to Eraimus alto, and contrasie to the ordiuarie vfe of the Grecke vvord, ae ty~ flatio to Main~ 4; Beza him felt detineth it Lue, 2 v.25 : and contrarie to the propriety of che Greeke phrafe,asnot Agsaag teine Caluins onely the Catholikes, but * the beft learned Lutherans do thevv and proue by many exampies. Flae. illyr, horrible bial They folovv hereia the tngular prefumption of Caluin, vvno vvas the firtt (as his fellowy Beza vpon tow conteffech) that ewer found wut thisinterprecation, Vvhich neither S.Cliryioftom, nor any other, places as perfect Gracians as they vvere, could euer efpic. Vvhere,onely to haue made choife of that im- pious and arroganc Sedtaries fenle, before the iaid fathers and ail the Churches betides, had been thameful ynough:but to fee the fame dovwvne for very Scripture et Gods bleiled vvord, thar is into- lerable, and pailech alimpiecy, And wve {ce plainely thac they haue no conicience, indifferencie, nor other purpofe, butto make the poore Readers beleeue, that their opinions be Gods ovvne yvord, audto dravy the Scripturesto foundafter the fantalic oftheir herefies. Butif the good Reader knevv , for vvhat poinc of doctrine they haue thus framed their tranflacion, they vvould Caluins blaf. abhorrethem tothe depth of Hel. forfooth itis thus: they vvould haue this Scripture meane, that hemie that Chrift vvasin horrible teare of damnation , and that he vvas not onely in paines corporal vpon the Chriit fuffe- Crosle (vvhich they heid,notto haue been iuficient for mans redemption) but that he vvas in the red hei paines very forovves & diftreifes of che damned, vvuthout any difference, but that it vvas not eueriaiting, vpéthe croffe, as theirs is, ; . — and that his For this horrible blafphemie (vvhich is their interpretation of Chriftes defcending into Hel} death other- Godsholy vvord muft be corrupted, and the facrifice of Chriftes death (vvhereot they talke to vvife Were in- prelumpruouily) mutt not be ynough for our redemption, except he be damned for vs alfo to the Catticrent. paines ot Hel, Vvobe ro our poore Countie, that muit haue tuch bookes, amd read {uch trae lations. See Caluin and Beza in their Commentaries and Anmorations vpon this place, and you Chal (te,thac for detente of the faid bla{phemies they haue thus tranilated this text. sec the Anno- Chrift yelding tations betore, 4H. 1, 27. and Nat. 27, 46. vp the Ghoft, 9. Conjwmmaze.] The ful vvorke of his sacrifice, by vvhich vve vvere redeemed, vvas vvholy accomplitiied confummate and accomplifaed, ar tae yelding vp ot his tpisic to Ged the Fatner, yvhen he faid, our redemp- Con,sunmasuen eff. taough for to make tie fame cttectual to the faluaciog of particular men,he eae 10019. 50» 40a. phemic. Cra. VI. TO THE HEBREVVES, 61 felf did diuers things, and novv doth in heauen, and our felues alfo muft vfe many meanes, for the application thereot to our particular neceilities. See the next Annotation, [BOOK_CORRECTED: Phlm→Heb by manual review]

thou are permanent : and they shal al He?.1. waxe old as a garment. (m, Be chauged.in qualitie, And asa velture thou shalt change them; and they shal be changed: 28, but thou art the felfc-(ame,.and thy yeares shal not faile,

Gen. 12, 4.13, 43. Cua. XI. TO THE HEBREYVES, 631 Aan. 17, [BOOK_CORRECTED: Phlm→Heb by manual review]

Cua. X. TO THE HEBREVVES, 627 Abac, 2, 3- Rot, [BOOK_CORRECTED: Phlm→Heb by manual review]

} Euer obferuc, thatthe abrogation of the old law,is not att abe- lifhing of al Prietthod, but an introductié of a new, conteining the hope of eternal things, vv here the old had but temporal. [BOOK_CORRECTED: Phlm→Heb by manual review]

This uthe fignifieth the infallible and abfolute promis of the eter- nitie of the new Priefthod and {tate of the Church: Chrift by his death ,.and bloud fhedin the facrince of the Crofle, confirming it, (ealing it, and making him (elfche {urety and pledgetherof. Forthough the new Teftamente vyas initicuted, giuen , and dedicated in the Supper, yet the vvarrant, confirmation , and eternal operation therof,vvas acchieued vpon the Cro#ie,ia the one oblation and one general and euerlafting redemption there made. [BOOK_CORRECTED: Phlm→Heb by manual review]

be offered againe, neither needeth he fo to be offe- Clift once of- red any more: hauing by that one adtion of facrifice vpon the Croffe, made the full ranfom, re- fered in bloud- demption,and remedie for the finnes of the vvhole vvorld. Nevertheleffe, as Chrift died and vvas dy fort, but vn- offered attera fortin al] the facrifices of the Lavy and Nature, fince the beginning of the vvorld blouddily ofté, (ai vvhich vere fgures of this one oblation vpon the Croffe) fo is he much rather offered in the namely in the facrifice of the altar of the nevy Teftament,incomparably more neerely , diuinely , and truely exe faciifice of the preifing his death, his body broken, hisbloud {hed, then did any figure of the old lawv, or other akar. facrifee that euer vvas: as being in deede (though in hidden, facsamental , and myfticall, and vue blouddy maner) the very felfiame B. body and bloud, the felf fame hoft , oblation and facrifice, that vvas done vpon the Croffe. he “acrifice of And this tuth ismoft euident by the very forme ef vvordes vied by our Sauiour im the infti- The tear be tha tution and confecration of the holy Sacrament , and by the profeifion ofall theholy Do@ors. abe acter & Ie, Our jacrifier, faith S.“Cyprian , 4s eorrefpondent to the Pafsion of Chriff. And, The fasrifice har vve offer, on the Lachey iy Paftion of Chriff. ep. 63. na. 4. & nu, 7, S. Auguftine de fid, ad Pet. c. 19. Inthofe carnal facri- both onc, fices vvas the prefiguring of the flefh of C brift , vubich he uvas to offer far finnes, and of the-blend , vvbich be vuas to (heade. but in this Sacrifices is tie commemoration of tne flefb of Chrift vubsch be hath novu ginen , and of the bland vubich he bath fbed: inillis prenuntiabatut occidendus, in hoc anountiatur ‘occi(us. In them bevuas forfbevved as to be killed : in shefe he is (oeuved , as killed. And, Gregorie Nazianzene faith, vat. in morbum,that the Prieft in this facriticr, immijcet fe magn Chriffi Pafiiowi- bu. S Ambrofe li, 1-Offc. ¢..48, Offertur Chrifius in imagine quafirecipiens pafionem. Alexander the ferfl, ep. adomnes Orthodox. mw. 4. t9.1- Cone. Cuins corpsser jangurs conficitnr, pa/iio etiam selebvarur. S Gregoric, bo. 37 in Enang. So often as uve offer the hoft of ins Papion,foeften uve renevve hu Pafion, And, He siffereth for us againcin myfterie, And Hychius, &. x, 8 in Lewst, poft med. By the facrifice ef ake Cra. X. TO THE HEBREVVES. 625 the onely-begetten many thinges are ginen'unte Us, to Vvitte, the remifion or perdoning of al mankinde, and the fingular introduction or brin ing in of the my freries sf thancvv Teltament. Ce te and And the {aid fathers and others, by reafon of the difference in the maner of Chriftes prefence The fathers call x ape * and oblation in refpect of that on the Croffe , calied this the unblouddy facrifice, as” Caluin him felf it the vnbloud- > 7. confefleth , but an{vvereth them inthe pride of heretical! {pirtc . vvith thete vwordes: Nihil moror dy sacrifice of quod [rc loquantur vetufti feripreres, thatis, I palfe not for it,thas the auncient uvriters do fo foeake : calling tne altar. the diftinaion of blouddy and vnblouday tacrifice, fcholafticaliand frimolous , and diaboiicum Caluinscontép? sommentum,a diuelifh deui(e, V vith fuch ignorant and blafphemous men vve nawe to Jo,thattbinke of the F. tere they vndesftand ché Scriptures berrer then ali the fathers. mere Cuarp, XX, Because in the yerely feaft of Expiation vas only a commemoration of finne: . therfore iu place af al thoie old sacrifices the Pfaime telleth us of the obiatson of Cnriftes body. 10 Uvbieb he offered blouddily but once (the Lenitica! Friefts offering foenery day) becaulernat once vvas fufficient for ewer, 15 m that it purcha- (fed (as the prophet alfo uvitneffeth ) remifsion of finmes, 19 After ad this be profecnterh and exhorteth them unto perjencrance,partl, vvith the opening of Heauen by our bigh-prief, 26 partly yvith the terrour of damnation if they fallagaine: 3. bidaing them remember hevy much they bad juffered aiready, and not lofe their revuard, OR the lavw hauing * a fhadovy of 1 Leu. 16, ood things to come,not the very image [BOOK_CORRECTED: Phlm→Heb by manual review]