Emmanuel, or, God-man a treatise wherein the doctrine of the first Nicene and Chalcedon councels, concerning the two natures in Christ, is asserted against the lately vented Socinian doctrine / by John Tombes ...

SECT. 13. (Book 13)

Heb▪ 7. 3. Is urged to prove the Eter∣nal Son-ship of Christ.

TO what is said, Heb. 1. I shall add what is said Heb. 7. 3. concerning Me••∣chizede••, that he is mentioned without Fa∣ther, without Mother, without Genealogy, that is without speech of his descent or pedi∣gree, neither having beginning of daies, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God, remaineth a Priest for ever: Which intimates, that the Son of God, was without Father, without Mother, without Genea∣logy, neither having beginning of daies, nor end of life, that is, as he was the Son of

God he was Father or Mother among me••▪ in which respect there is no Genealogy of him, that he is without beginning of daies, or end of life, therefore he was before any creature was made, begotten of the substance of his Father, not made of nothing, very God of the same substance of the Father, by whom all things were made: For as the Son of man and according to his office he had begin∣ning of daies, and had a Mother: Nor can the sense be right, that the beginning of daies is meant of the Priest-hood of Melchizedec, for the other part, nor end of life, is to be expounded of his Being, not of his Priest-hood; and therefore also his not having be∣ginning of daies must be meant of his Be∣ing, as the Son of God, not of his Priest∣hood.