M. Hardinge.
Moses was not onely a Ciuile Magistrate.‡ 1.1 but also a Prieste. In that he had both offices,* 1.2 it pro∣ueth that a Priest may haue both: but not cōtrariwise, that a King may haue both For the greater may include the lesse, but the lesse can not include the greater.‡ 1.3 The office of a Priest is the highest of al. * 1.4 And Christe comming naturally of the Kinges line from Dauid in the tribe of Iuda, yet estemed that honor nothinge in respecte of that he was a Prieste according to the order of Melchisedech. Therefore Melchisedech also beinge both Prieste and Kinge, was not yet saide to be the figure of Christe so mutche concerninge his Kingedome,* 1.5 as his Priesthoode. For Dauid said of Christe, Thou art a Prieste for euer after the order of Melchtsedech. As for his Kingedome, it was included in his Priestes office. And therefore when we speake of Christes Kingedome, though in euery respecte he be the very Kinge in dede of al Kinges,* 1.6 and Lord of al Lordes: yet we assigne it also to haue ben vpon the Crosse, vbire∣gnauit à ligno Deus, where God reigned from the woodde. Accordinge to the same meaninge, whereas the people of Israel were called Regnum Sacerdotale, a Priestly Kingedome: S. Peter writing to the Christians, tourned the order of the wordes, calling the Churche of Christ, Sacerdo∣tium Regale, a Kingely Priesthoode. Moses was both a Prieste and a Ciuile Gouernoure, as beinge a figure of Christe, who ioined both together, makinge the tribe of Iuda, which was before kingly, now also to be Priestly. Therefore S. Augustine vpon those wordes of Dauid, Psal. 98. Moses and Aaron are in the number of his Priestes, concludeth, that Moses muste nedes haue benne a Prieste.‡ 1.7 For (saithe he) if he were not a Priest, what was he? ‡ Nunquid maior sacerdote esse potuit, could he be grea∣ter then a Prieste? ‡ As who shoulde saie, there is no greater dignitie, then priesthoode. And, seinge Mo∣ses had the greatest dignitie, for he ruled al, and consecrated Aarō high Bishop, and his sonnes Priestes, therefore him selfe muste nedes haue ben a Prieste.* 1.8 Nowe if Moses were bothe, and his chiefe office was Priesthoode, it foloweth by that example, that the Pope maie rule temporally, but not that a Kinge maie rule spiritually. This you haue gained nothinge by this example.