Psalms — Chapter 109
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Verse 4
A Priest for euer. In two respects Christ is a Priest for euer: in that from the first instant of his Incarnation he was and remaineth a Priest, now also in heauen, and all other Priests are his ministerial Vicars, not successours. So that all Priestly functions which they doe, he by them doth the same, as the principal Priest. Secondly Christ daily offering Sacrifice by the hands of his Priests, doth continually pacific Gods wrath in behalfe of those sinners for whom it is duly applied, euen to the end of the world. Whereas the Priesthood of Aaron and of all others in the old Testament, ceased by those deaths both in the office and in the effect. According to the order of Melchisedech: as Melchisedech King of peace and iustice, without Father or mother or genealogie expressed in holy Scriptures, was Priest of the Highest, offered bread and wine, an vnbloudie sacrifice, communicating with both Chanaanites and Hebrewes: so Christ the true King of peace and iustice, without father of his humanity, without mother of his Diuinity, offereth Sacrifice not only bloudie on the Crosse but also vnbloudie in the formes of bread and wine, and continueth the same by the ministerie of other Priests.