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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74953	The first and second priesthood declared according to the Scriptures, that both priests, professors and people may come to see with the light of Christ, which priesthood this belongs to.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1657 (1657)	Thomason E909_6*; ESTC R207467	6,913	8

against such saying VVherefore ye Priests this commandment is for you if you will not hearken I will send a curse upon you and I will curse your blessing and spread the dung of your solemn Assemblies upon your faces Mal. 2. 1 2 3. Mic. 3. 10 11. Ier. 10. 21. Hos 6. 9. Isa 56. 9 10 11 12. Rom. 2. 21 22 23 24. The Ministry of the second Priesthood witnesseth the Righteous ness of the Law fulfilled within and so comes to the freedom from the Law of sin and death and so comes to receive a blessing from God not a curse Rom. 7. 6. Rom. 8. 2 3 4. Heb. 6. 7. The first Priesthood who offers dayly for the people and themselves though it be much and consisteth in many words and outward Ceremonies yet this is not able to make him that doth it perfect as pertaining to the conscience but the guilt remaineth still upon the conscience both of him and his followers Heb. 9. 9. 2 Pet. 2. 1 2 3. and 14. The second Priesthood who hath for ever perfected them that are sunctified he 's of the heavenly Mansion of the which there are many in the Fathers house whose house are we who are of the body which is the Church which is raised up by the Ministry of the second Priesthood to sit together with Christ in the heavenly places where the unclean cannot come but the living service and prayers are offered up through the eternal spirit Eph. 1. 20 21 23 23. Eph. 6. 2. Heb. 3. 6. Joh. 14. 2 3. The first Priesthood and its Ministry consisteth in reading of the Law that was written in Tables of stone and writings which are without and in preaching of Moses in the Synagogues every Sabbath-day the vail being over the heart and the end of the Law not seen nor him known that 's made under the Law Act. 15. 21. 2 Cor. 3. 13 14. 15 c. The second Priesthood and its Ministry consisteth in ministring life to the seed in prison and opening the prisor-doors that the seed of Abraham may spring out of the barren womb and seal the power of the Son God breaking down that which the Law had power over and so to bring to him that is the end of the Law and to behold with open face the glory of him that takes away the sin and brings in everlasting righteousness Isa 61. i 2 3. Dan. 9. 24. 2. Cor. 3. 18. The first Priesthood hath the Letter but resist the Holy Ghost yet profess Moses and the Prophets writings and make a gain thereby but resist the Holy Ghost and the Spirit of Prophesie the heart being uncircumcised Act. 7. 51 52. Jude 11. The second Priesthood and its Ministry is of the Spirit with the power of the Holy Ghost and the same Spirit that guided Moses and the Prophets and all the holy men of God and so comes to that from whence that was given forth which was preached in the Synagogues ●very Sabbath day Isa 44. 3. Isa 59. 21. 2 Pet. 11. 21. In the time of the first Priesthood the Cherubins covers the Mercy-seat and the Lord communeth with him that is the Minister of the Law above the Mercy-seat which Mercy-seat being both covered and under and the people being both stiff-necked and hard hearted so the power stands above ministring the Law which is to judge and cut down that which causeth the hardness of the heart which is covered with the vail through the transgression of the Law under which the Mercy-seat is and the testimony lyeth under it Exod. 25. 31. Let him that readeth understand Matth. 24. 15. Heb. 9. 5. In the time of the second Priesthood the testimony and witness of God is raised up and the Mercy-seat openened and the hardness of heart broken and so the wall tkat's seperated between him ●nd his testimony comes to be broken down and the Fountain of living Mercies opened and the seed refreshed with the hidden Manna so the seed of Abraham comes to be raised up through the vail by the power of him who is the living Minister within the vail made under the Law to redeem the seed from under the Law and so as this is read in the work of it and so felt and understood the promise of the second Covenant under the Ministry of the second Priesthood is witnessed even as it is written I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people 2 Cor. 6. 16 Jer. 31. 33. Heh 8. 8. to the end Heh 9. 12. Esay 57. 15. In the time of the first Priesthood there is much talking of the Ordinances and many are pleading from the Letter for the Ordinances which say they are to last for ever as circumcision was and also many are crying The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord and yet the Temple is made by such a den of Thieves and a habitation of Dragons and wild subtile devouring beasts of the field who have stollen up another way in the Serpents wisdom then by Christ the Light and the Door and so resist the Holy Ghost being yet in their sins and their faith vain and their minds and their consciences being defiled and they not come to the Doctrine of Repentance the mountains being not level'd and the burning Light not felt nor the Wilderness not yet found nor the way opened for the Seed neither yet him seen that takes away the sin of the world and yet such are crying The Ordinances The Ordinances and the Commands which say they are to last to the end of the world and yet they themselves not come to the beginning of the world nor to feel the power of the Word separating the Light from the Darkness nor yet to feel the entrance into the true circumcision and so the vail remains over the heart that they cannot see to the end of the commands figures and Ordinances which are a shadow of good things to come but the end and subltance is Christ the light life and cornerstone at which they stumble Col. 2. 17. 1 Pet. 3. 21. In the time of the second Priesthood the Kingdom is witnessed which is not in words but in power where the proud boasters are shut out and thk unclean enters not nor the vain janglers who comes with their carnal weapons from the Letter without to fight against the Lamb whose commands are written in the heart where the Holy Ghost is by such resisted who are not come to the second Ministry where all things are compleat in him who is the head the beginning and the end in whom the circumcision made without hands is witnessed so the vail is taken off the heart and the end is seen even he he that takes away the sin of the world and so all Trespasses comes to be forgiven unto them that are buried in the baptism and so dead unto sin whereby also the hand-writing of Ordinances that was against us comes to be blotted out