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A18567	The exaltation of the kingdome and priesthood of Christ In certaine sermons vpon the 110. Psalme: preached in the Cathedrall Church and city of Worcester, in the time of Christmasse: anno Domini: 1596. By Rob. Abbot, doctor of Diuinitie, sometime felow of Baliol Colledge in Oxford.	Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618.	1601 (1601)	STC 51; ESTC S115231	83,503	102

c. but as saith Saint Ierome c Hierony in Psal 110. all Ecclesiasticall writers haue saied that he is saied to bee without father according to his manhood without mother and kinred according to his godhead and therein also without beginning of daies or end of life Therefore as Melchisedec for any thing we reade so Christ verily and indeed continueth a priest for euer seeing he euer liueth as was before saide to make intercession for vs. The honour of priesthood proper vnto Iesus Christ 21 Nowe of all that hath beene spoken this is the summe that the honour of priesthood for propitiation and attonement for sinne belongeth onely vnto Iesus Christ that hee alone it is who for the greatnesse of his person and for the woorthinesse of his sacrifice and for the power of his intercession is sufficient to be our mediatour vnto God that hee onely answereth that that was figured in Melchisedec being for vs both a king and a priest The sufficiencie of the priesthood of Christ is the condemnation of the popish priesthood in whom we haue righteousnes and peace and blisse who neuer ceaseth to stande and pleade for vs before the throne of God Seeing then hee is thus alsufficient in himselfe and abideth euer with God to performe in our behalfe the office of a priest wee learne heereby to looke to another priest or mediatour but onely to him therefore to cōdemne the popish priesthood togiher with all their strange intercessiōs of sacriledge blasphemie as tending to the derogation of the priesthood of Christ and to the impeachment of that sacrifice and attonement that he hath performed for vs. The popish priesthood of no order appointed by God and therefore not of God Of whom it may be demaunded by what order it is that they take vpon them to bee priests and to offer sacrifice for forgiuenesse of sinnes The Scriptures as before is saide name vnto vs onely two orders of priesthood of which theirs is neither The order of Aaron they will not chalenge vnto themselues the order of Melchisedec they dare not because it is noted to be the peculiar and soueraigne royaltie of the sonne of God Or if they dare as indeed what dare they not to serue their turne how or with what colour can they fitte themselues to that order for to be a priest after the order of Melchisedec is to be both king and priest and to be a priest a Heb. 7.3 continuing for euer without father without mother c. But these things cannot be applied to popish priests Therefore priests according to the order of Melchisedec they cannot be If neither according to Aaron nor according to Melchisedec then their priesthood is not of God but they are priests of their owne making and therefore hatefull vnto God The popish priesthood impeacheth and disgraceth the priesthood of Christ 22 And so much the rather for that by this their vsurped priesthood they vilifie and disgrace the priesthood which God by his oath hath established for euer in Iesus Christ For what doe they but mainely detract from the excellencie of his person when in offering sacrifice for sinne they match mate with him euery varlet and pesaunt to whom it pleaseth any Romish bishop to giue imposition of hands and make them priestes to appeere before God and to make attonement for sinne whom men woulde scant thinke woorthie enough for the wiping of their shooes or the keeping of their swine The sacrifice of his crosse that b Heb. 7.27 9.12.26 10.10.12.14 once offering of himselfe which onely and without any second offering the scripture commendeth vnto vs teaching vs that thereby we c Heb. 10.10.14 are sanctified and perfited vnto God so that wee haue no neede of any further offering what doe they but disgrace as vnsushcient when they make a necessitie of offring him vp in sacrifiec euery day to purchase thereby forgiuenesse of sinnes both for quicke and dead and when the holy Ghost most expressely saith that a Heb. 9.24.25 he is entred into heauen to appeere in the sight of God for vs not that hee shoulde offer himselfe often doe yet notwithstanding teach that being in heauen he often and euery day b Rhem. Tesia Annot. Heb. 7.23 concurreth with their priests as the Rhemists speake to offer vp himselfe His intercession they haue made in a manner frustrate and voide by putting in his place other intercessours and mediatours by whome they haue perswaded themselues to haue more ready accesse vnto God euen as many as there are saints to be found in heauen as if Christ were either vnwilling or vnable to procure them fauour with God or were asleepe and had forgotten either the office committed vnto him or this promise whereby as before was noted he hath assured vs in this sort c Ioh. 14 13. Whatsoeuer ye aske the father in my name I will doe it that the father may be glorified in the sonne teaching vs to vse no other but onely his owne name because God in this behalfe hath chosen to be glorified neither in Peter nor Paul nor in the virgin Mary but onely in his sonne To discourse these points at large would be too long and tedious but thus in a word they rob Christ so much as in them lieth of that honour which God the father by an irreuocable oath hath confirmed vnto him and make the word of God of none effect by communicating that to other which the father hath vowed shal be proper vnto him alone And horrible is the iniquitie and villanie that from time to time they haue committed vnder the pretence of this priesthood even d 2. Pet. 2.1.3 denying the Lord that hath bought them and through couetousnesse with famed words buying and selling and making merchandise of the e Renel 18.13 soules of men and whilest they fed them with an opinion of forgiuenesse of sinnes by their priesthood and sacrifice bereauing them of forgiuenesse of sinnes which they should haue found indeede in the bloud of Iesus Christ Let vs not be partakers of their error but refusing all other priesthood and mediation let vs cleaue vnto that onely which God hath ordeined in the person of Iesus Christ He hath f Heb. 1.3 by himselfe purged our sinnes and perfectly fulfilled the worke of reconciliation which was committed vnto him of the father he needeth no aslistants or helpers in this behalfe The comfort that we receiue by the priesthood of Christ 23 But of all this a singular comfort is ministred vnto vs. For seing we haue such an high priest so glorious and great in person so sufficient in woorth of sacrifice so gratious in intercession sitting also at the right hand of the maiesty in heauen so neere vnto God the very sonne of God what good thing is there that we may not hope for at the hands of God by his meanes How should we doubt but

a Tertul. in Apologet. ca. 5. dedicator damnationis nostrae as Tertullian calleth him that is the first that made a law to condemne Christians to death after all his villanies and cruelties being condemned himselfe by the Senate of Rome to be whipped to death to auoid this iudgement fled away by night and complaining that he coulde finde neither friend nor enimie to dispatch him but yet professing that as he had liued a shamefull life so he would die a shamefull death fell vpon his owne sword and killed himselfe Domitian who as Tertullian also speaketh was b Tertul. ibid. portio Neronis de crudelitate for his crueltie a piece of Nero was slaine in his chamber by the consent of his owne wife Hadrian was taught to rue his shedding of bloud by a horrible fluxe issue of his owne bloud wherewith he grew in the end to that exceeding torment as that he called for poison sword to dispatch himselfe Commodus a man for his lewdnesse and crueltie likened to those monsters Nero and Domitian was first poisoned by Martia his concubine and afterward strangled by Narcissus Seuerus the emperour was so cruelly tormented in his whole bodie as that he also desired poison to end his life Maximinus was torne in peeces of his owne souldiours Decius was drowned in a quagmire Valerius as was before said was taken by Sapores king of Persia after much indignitie his skin was flated off salt cast vpon his raw flesh so in miserable sort he ended his wretched life Dioclesian killed himselfe Galienus Aurelianus were slain by others Iulian the apostata after all his both violent and wily practises against Christ and his church in battel against the Persians was woūded to death and taking of his owne bloud in his hand sprinkleth it vpward perforce acknowledgeth the iudgemēt of Christ saying Vicisti tandem Galilaee Thou Galilean yet at length hast gotten the victorie These were tyrants and persecutors of the church and in them as in many more which it were to long to rehearse we see the wordes of the prophet verified that Christ should smite and wounde euen the very heads ouer great couniries Yea these our times haue not wanted verie notable and pregnant examples of this iudgement of the Lord. For if wee looke backe vnto them who haue bene the speciall authors of those massacres and murthers that haue beene committed vpon the professours of the Gospell we shall easily perceiue that God hath returned the bloud which they haue shed vpon their owne heades They haue come to feareful ends by lice by fluxe of bloud by poisoning by stabbing hauing first combined themselues to the destruction of the faithfull haue afterwards fallen to conspiring and practising one against another This is the worke of Christ this is his fearefull wrath that men may learne to stand in awe of him and not to abuse their greatnesse and power to the oppugning of his kingdome The vengeance of Christ ceaseth not to pursue and folow his enimies vntill it haue destroied them 15 There followeth now a word or two to be spoken of the last verse He shall drinke of the brooke in the way therefore shall he lift vp his head The former part of which words is hard to be vnderstood neither will I take vpon me certeinly to determine the meaning thereof I like best to follow them who construe the same to the like purpose in generall as the words before as if the prophet hauing imported Christs victorie gotten against his enemies would further signifie that as a noble conquerour hauing wonne the battell and put the enemie to flight pursueth and followeth the chase with might and maine and the more instantly to presse them will not turne out of the way to refresh himselfe but is content to drinke of the brooke that he findeth in the way and so cutteth them of one and one vntill they be vtterly wasted and ouerthrowne euen so the sonne of God Iesus Christ with all wrath and furie shall prosecute his enemies and hold them still in chase and pursue them by his diuine power and sword of iudgement so that none of them shall escape but all shall fall vnder his hand Certeine it is that iust vengeance is still waiting at the heeles of the enemies of Christ and ceaseth not to follow them vntill it haue vtterly destroied them They may seeme for a time to flie and to escape their pompe and power may seeme to hide them and to shield them from the Lords hand but in the end he will ouertake them and find them out and pull them out of their holes and set his feete vpon their necks and poure vpon them euerlasting confusion Let no man flatter himselfe let no man be secure in enmitie against the Lord. Present standing is no warrant against future falling The sworde that hath not yet striken yet is gone foorth to strike and shall not returne vntill it a Psal 68.21 wound the head of Gods enimies and the curled pates of them that walke forward in their sinnes b 2. Pet. 2.3 whose iudgement long agone as Saint Peter saith is not farre of and their damnation sleepeth not Christs victorie and glorious triumph ouer all his enimies 16 The last words import the glorious triumph of Iesus Christ hauing now subdued all his enimies and cast them vnder his feete for euer Therefore shall he lift vp his head It may be taken either that Christ shall lift vp or holde vp his head or that God the father shall lift vp the head of his sonne Iesus Christ As holding downe the head betokeneth sorow and shame so the holding or lifting vp of the head betokeneth reioycing and triumph and glorie and full confidence of safetie and assured estate Thus shall Christ lift vp the head by way of triumphing and reioycing when he shall haue taken full vengeance of his aduersaries and freed not himselfe onely but the whole body of his church from the assaults and dangers of all enimies We see now that oftentimes though not in himselfe yet in his members he is faine to hang downe the head and to weare the badges of reproch and shame whilest the vngodly vaunt themselues and goe c Iob. 32 26. looking vpon the sunne and in their harts despise the righteous accounting more vilely of them then of the dust of their feete But the case shal be altered the rising of Christ shall bee their fall the lifting vp of Christes head shall be the casting downe of theirs and it shall be fulfilled which is written a Esa 65.13.14 Behold my seruants shall reivice and yee shall be ashamed behold my seruants shall sing for ioy of hart yee shall crie for sorow of hart and shall howle for vexation of minde We may otherwise vnderstand that God the father shall lift vp the head of Iesus Christ in the same meaning as Pharao is saied b Genes 40.13 to lift vp the head of his chiefe butler that is to aduance him to his place of dignitie and honour Which God the father hath done alreadie vpon his first conquest hauing set him at his right hand as hath beene before declared and more fully shall doe when he shall haue c 1. Cor. 15.27 put all things vnder his feete and shall make his glorie manifest vnto all the world and shall so establish the kingdome that he hath giuen him that thencefoorth there shall neuer be enimie to resist the same To this king Iesus Christ togither with the father and the holy Ghost one God immortall inuisible and onely wise be all praise and honour and glory both now and for euer Amen FINIS