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A15991	Three partes of Salomon his Song of Songs, expounded The first part printed before: but now re-printed and enlarged. The second and third partes neuer printed before. All which parts are here expounded and applied for the readers good. By Henoch Clapham.; Bible. O.T. Song of Solomon. English. Clapham.	Clapham, Henoch.	1603 (1603)	STC 2772; ESTC S116334	255,503	332

of that in Melchi-tsedek a Kingly priesthood And so our Lord and great priest came not of Leuies tribe as did all the legall priesthood but of King●y Iudah as is euident hebr 7.14 15. And as this legall priesthood was onely tied to Leuies type during their ceremoniall seruice so not euery Leuite offred this sacrifice but such sufficient-ones onely as were of Leuies sonne Kohath As for the two yonger houses Gershom and Merari they were shut from the Altar and employed in inferiour places and seruice● Numb 3. and 4. Wherein though darkely might be represented Christ the elder brother in whom the sacrifice satisfactory rested together with his two yonger brethren for we are all so called to be priests Reuel 16. Pet. 2.9 Rom. 22.1 namely Minister and Lay-man who are employed in inferiour seruices subordinate to Christ Iesus our hie-priest Which priesthood of ours consisting in offring vppe our selues a reasonable sacrifice is as farre differing from that of Christs as Gershoms and Meraris from that of Kohath Gershom and Merari with Israel were called a Kingdome of Priests as now all Christians are termed to the same God Kings and Priests but as he was To die the death whatsoeuer hee was that touched the arke with Vzzah though a Leuite but not of Kohath and Aaron so whatsoeuer he amongst Christians that shall vsurpe vpon Christs sacrifice or with Apostate Papisme encro●h on his office they stand condemned of high treason conspired against the Lord and his Annointed for M●ssiah is the Sacrificer absolute hauing trod the wine-presse alone They and wee are but S●crificers Respectiue so termed in respect of conforming our selues vnto him who hath beene so sufficient for vs as members not vn-naturall must needes conforme themselues to their head This generally of the Office shadowing and shadowed now to the three particulars before specified his Enstalment his Garments his Action For his Enstalment first Moses bearing the person of God he causeth Aaron and his Sonnes for he was to haue them ioyned therein to come from amongst the people assembled in whose presence he declareth Iehouahs wil touching Aaron and his sonnes for s●crifice-hood Secondly Moses w●sheth them with water Thirdly he putteth on them the prescribed ceremoniall garments Fourthly he filleth their hands with obl●tions frumentall and animall shaking them before the Lord and then offering them according to the ceremonie prescribed putting of the blood on their right eare on the thumbe of their right hand and on the great toe of their right foote annoynting them with the sacred oyle Fiftly they feasted at the Tabernacles dore with the consecrated bread and fl●sh Sixtly they were to watch seauen d●yes a●d seauen nights at the tabernacles dore for that was the time of their consecration as they would avoyde to haue sodaine death inflicted from heauen vpon them All his installment according to ceremoniall appearance it was passing glorious and notablie shadowed forth the super-excelling installment of Messiah to the worke of Redemption Did not Aaron take this office vnto him but was he caled of God thereto So neither did Christ take this honour to be made the hie-priest but he that said vnto him Thou art my Son this day I begot thee euen he gaue it him And being consecrated was made the Author of eternall saluation vnto all them that obay him and is called of God an high priest after the order of Melchi-tsedek Only where the Leuiticall priesthood had Co assistants in that sac●ifice Christ Iesus had no helpe for looking about as Isaiah●aith ●aith if there were any to helpe him loe there were none and so his owne at me sustained him Assistants he had in the Gospels publication namely his Apostles Euangelists and Prophets but in the worke of our absolute redemption he had no fellow which further was shadowed forth in the Hie-preist who only might enter into the Sanctum sanctorum for making attonement For Moses his washing them that shadowed the immaculate and vnspotted estate of Iesus For such an hie-priest it besemed vs to haue as is holy harmeles vndefiled seperate from sinners hebr 7.26 The annoynting them with such sauoury oile it shad●wed the Holy Spirit with his sauory operations by vertue whereof euery thing in him was to his fathers nos●thrills redolent The blood sprinkling oblations burning did fore-type the sufferings of our hie-priest for without his blood was no purgation That feasting at the Tabernacles dore it shadowed with what cheerfulnes our Messiah came to do his fathers wil. As for the seuen dayes and their nights they so continued it well resembleth our Sauiors consecration for this busines to the whole seuen ages of the world for he is the Lamb slaine from the beginning of the world Christ ' yesterday to day the same for euer This instalment was preached in Paradise belieued of Adam shadowed in his Abels sacrifice and so continued almost 4000 yeares what time he appeared in our nature for effecting of that amongst men which otherwise to his father was from the beginning in Act seeing with God there is no time past or to come but all things present This breifely of the installment into office Lect. XXII FOr the Garments of his office they are numbred Eight first A breast plate secondly An Ephod thirdly A Robe fourthly A broydered Coate fiftly A Miter sixtly A Girdle seauenthly A plate of pure Golde and lastly linnen Breeches With these eight was Aaron clothed what time he was to exercise his Arch-function Of the which erant quatuor vt annota●it Beda minoris ordinis sacerdo●ibus concessa foure of these eight were grant●d to Priestes of the lower order namely the breches the broidered coate vnworthily turned a strait linnen in the old latine as Arias and Pagnine haue obserued then the Girdle and Miter And if the M●tter and forme of this sacred attire be considered O howe truly Pontificall were they But thereof only a taste Their Coates their mitred ornaments and breeches were made of pure-fine linnen termed Bisse So were their girdles but perfected vp also with blew silke and purple scarlet and needle-worke But for the other garments wherin the Minor-priests had no interest there behold more The Robe called of the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a garment to the foot such a one as our Sauiour is repres●nted in Reuel 1.13 it was to be altogither of blew silke and the hole for the head of wouen worke strong as the coller of an Habergeon Vpon the skirts whereof were tached Golden-bells and Pomegranates The number of whch Bels and the Pomegran●ts must be no l●sse are of Clemens Alexandrine s●d to be 166 but Beda affirmes them to be but 72. from the testimonie of Iosephus the Priest in his Antiquities For my part I rest where the scripture resteth It affirmeth nothing of the number nor will I. The Ephod a shorter garment drawne ouer the Robe it was made of Golde and blew silke and