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Supposed identity and real name of 3Ielcliis edec, of the Scriptures. This is indeed an interesting problem, the solution of which has perplexed its thousands; most of whom suppose him to have been the Son of God; some angelic or mysterious su pernatural personage, rather than a mere man. Thi s general opinion proceeds on the grdtmd of the Scripture account of him, as commonly understood, being expressed , as follows: "Without father, without mother, without da scent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. (Hebrews vii. 3. liut, without further circumlocution, we will at once disclose our opinion, by stating that we believe him to have been Siiem, the eldest son of Noah, the progenitor of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the Jews, and none other than Shem. We derive this conclusion, from the re search, and critical commentary of the learned and pious Adam Claike, who gives us this in formation from the tradition of the Jew i.-h Rab bins, which, without hesitation gives this hon or to Shem. The particular part of that commentary to whic h w:e allude, as being the origin of our belief on this subject, - is the preface of that author to the book of Job, on . page 7l6, as foilows: "Shem lived five hundred and two years after the delete; being still alive, and in the three hundred and ninety-third year of his life, token Abraham was born; iherofore, the Jewish tradition, that Shem x:as the Mel chisedec, or my righteous king of Salem," which ivord IVIelchisedec was "an epithet, or title of honor and respect, not a proper imine; and, therefore, as the herd and father of his race, Abraham paid tithes to him. This seems to be ivell founded, and the idea is con firmed by this remarkable language: (Psalms ex.) Jehovah hath sworn, and wiil not repent or change, at lah cohenleolam al dibarte .aZ hilsedek. As if he had said: Thou, my only begotten son, first born of many brethren, not according to the substituted priesthood of the sons of Levi, who alter ihe sin of the golden calf, stood up in lieu of all the first born of Is rael, invested with their forfeited rights of pri mogeniture of king and priest: the Lord hath sworn and will not repent, (change.) Thou art a priest forever, after the (my ordef of Mel chisedec, my own original ptimitive) order of primogeniture: even as Shem, the man of name, the Shem that stands the first and fore mostof the sons of Noah. The righteous Prince, and Priest of the Must IJig h God, meets "his descendant, Abraham, after the slaughter of the Kings, with refreshments, and blessed him as the head and father of his race, the Jews in particular; and, as such, he re ceived from Abraham, the tithe of all the spoil. - How beautifully does iaul of Tarsus, writ- 6th. Nor one of another nation. He who was found to have acted contrary to these re quisitions, was, jure divino, excluded from the pontificate, or eligibility to hold that of fice. "On the contrary, it was necersary that he who desited this honor should be able to prove his descent from the family of Aaron; and if he could not, though even in the priesthood, he was cast out, as we find from Ezra ii. 62, and Nehemiah vii. 63. To these divine or dinances the Jews have'added, 1st. .That no proselyte could be a priest. 2d. Nor a slave. 3d. Nor a bastard. 4th. Nor the son of a Nithinnim; these were a class of men who were servants to the priests and LeVites, (not of their tribe,) to draw waterj-iind to hew wood. 5th. Nor one whose lather exercised any base trade. , J "And that they might be; well assured of all t'ais, they took the utmost ' carev to preserve their genealogies, ykfch were regularly kepi in the archives ofme temple. When, if any person aspired if the sacerdotal function, his genealogical tatHe was carefully inspected, and if any of the above blemishes were found in him, hejwas i ejected." " J3uf here thejnatter comes to a point as it respects our .inquiry respecting Melchisedec's having no father or mother. j "He who could not support his prelensiops by just genealogical evidences, was said to be without father. Thus in Bereshith Rabba, j sec. xviii. fol. 18, are these words: For this ! cause shall a man leave father and mother. It is said, if a proselyte to the Jewish religion have mart ied his own sister, whether by the same father or by the same mother, they cast her out, according to Rabbi Meir. But the wise men say, if she be of the same mother, they cast her out; but if of the same father they retain Iter, shein ab la gai, for a gentile has no father; that is, his father is not reckoned in the Jewish genealogies." In this way, both Chiist and Melchisedec were without father and without mother, had neither beginning of days, descent of lineage, nor end of life in their books of genealogies, which gave a man a right to the priesthood, as derived from Aaron; that is, were not descen ded from the original Jewish sacerdotal stock; yet Melchisedec, who was a Gentile, was a priest of the Most High God. That ha was a man, a mere man, born of a woman, and camo into the world after the or dinary manner, is attested by St. Paul's own extraordinary expression, (Hebrews vii. 4.) -"IS"ov cousideilLOw great this man was unto w hom Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.' However wonderfully elevated among men, and in the sight of God; however powerful and lich, wise, holy, and happy; he was, ne vertheless, a mere man, or the tenth of the spoils he would not have received. But the question is, what man was he, and what Nvas his name? "Now consider how to fragments and buried beneath the earthy matter thrown up from depths not so polluted. By examining a map on an artificial globe, it will be seen, the region of country situated between the eastern end of the Mediterranean sea, the Black and Caspian seas, and the Per sian gulf, the country now called Turkey, there are many rivers running into these sev eral waters, all heading toward each other ; among which is the Euphrates, one of the rivers mentioned by Moses, as deriving its origin in the garden, or country of Eden. Moun tainous countries are the natural sources of rivers. From which we argue that Eden must have been a high region of country, as intimated in Genesis, entirely inaccessible on all sides, but the east; at which point the sword of the Cherubim was placed to guard the way of the tree of life. Some have imagined the Persian gulf to be the spot where the garden was situated. But this is impossible, as that the river Euphrates runs into that gulf, from toward Jerusalem, or from north of Jerusalem. And as the region of Eden was the source of tour large rivers, running in different direc tions, so also, now the region round about the present head waters of the Euphrates, is the source of many rivers, as said above; on which account, there can be but little doubt, but here the Paradise of Adam was situated, before the deluge. If the Euphrates is one of the rivers having its source in the garden or country of Lden, as Moses has recorded, it is then prov ed, to a demonstration, that the region as a- 1 hove described, is the ancient and primeval site of the literal Paradise of Adam. The latitude of this region is between 20 and 30 degrees north, and running through near the middle of this country, from east to west, is the range of mountains known by that of Mount Taurus and Mount Ararat. So that we perceive this part of the globe is not only the ancient Eden, from whence the human race sprang forth at first, but that also, it was renewed probably near the same spot, in the family of Noah, after the flood. Thus far we have treated on the subject of Melchisedec,. showing reasons why he is sup posed to have been Shem, the sou of Noah, and reasons why St. Paul should say, "Now consider how great thi3 man was." We will only add, that the word Melchisedec is not the name of that man so called, but is only a term, or appellation, used in relation to him, by God himself, which is the same as to say, my righ teous king. So that; Melchisedec was not the name he received at his birth, but was Shem, as the Jews inform us in their traditions. X ing to the Hebrews, point to Melchisedec, (or I great... this man was," arc words which may -.. . . . , .. . . . . . l t i ,i i : t i 4 5 10 10 50 50 50 100 100 170 a a .( a a a cc ill -I I 1 . 1 v .Tsneni, tne neaa ana idmer ot tneir race,) in vested in all the original rights of primogeni ture, Priest of the Most High God, blessing Abraham as such, before Levi had existence, and as such, receiving tithes from Abraham, and in him from Levi, vet in the loins of his forefathers: Moses, on this great and solemn occasion, records simply this: Melchisedec, King of Salem, Priest of the Most High God, sine gencalogie; his pedigree not mentioned, but standing as Adam, in St. Luke's geneal ogy, without father and without mother, .Idar.i of God. (Luke Hi. 3S.) How beautifully, I- sav, doth St. Paul point, through Melchise dec, to Jehoshurt, our great.High Priest end King, Jesus Christ, whose eternal generation, who shall declare! Ha JWashiach, the Lord's anointed High Triest and King, after the or der of Melchisedec; only begotten, lirst born 4,000 son. ' 2,500 Thus far for the preface on the subject of 2.31 J Melchisedec, showing that he was none other 2.000 than Shem, the son of Noah. We shall now 1,750 j give the same author's views of the same sup 1,500 posed mysterious character, Melchisedec, as 1,250 j found ia his notes on the 7th Hebrews, co;a 1,000 j mencing at the 3d verse. 500 j Without father, mithout mother, without de 400 i scent, having neither beginning of days, nor 300 250 200 1G Drawn Numbers out of 7S. Tickets 20 Halves 1"- Ciut's $5-Eightiis $t"2 50. 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That Jesus Christ was the person prophesied of in the 110th Psalm, which Psalm the Jews uniformly understood as predicting the Messiah. 2d. To answer the objections of the Jews against the legiti macy of the priesthood of Christ, arising from the stock from which he proceeded. The ob jection is this: if the Messiah is a true priest he must come from a legitimate stock, as all the priests under the law have regularly done; otherwise we cannot acknowledge him to be a priest. "But Jesus of JNazareth has net proceeded from such a stock; therefore we cannot ac knowledge him for a priest, the autetype of Aaroa. To this objection the Apostle an swers, that it wras not necessary for the priest to come from a particular stock; for Melchise dec was a priest of the Most High God, and yet was not of the stock either of Abraham (for Melchisedec was before Abraham,) or Aaron, but was a Gentile. 'It is well known that the ancient Jews, or Hebrews, were exceedingly scrupulous in choosing their high priest;--partly by divine command, and partly from the tradition of their common ancesters, who always consid ered this office to be of the highest dignity. 1st. God commanded, (Leviticus xxi. 10.) that the high priest should be chosen from a moug their brethren; that is, from the family of Aaron. 2d. That he should marry a vir gin. 3d. He must not inarrv a widow. 4th. r- person. Nor a divorced th. Nor a harlot. possjbly lead us to the same conclusion, which we have quoted from the preface of the book of Job. We shall recount some of the circumstan ces; and first, at the time he met Abraham, when he returned from the slaughter of the kings who had carried away Lot, the halfbro ther of Abraham, with all his goods, his wife and children, and blessed him-; he was the old est man then on the earth. This circumstance alone was of no small amount, and highly cal culated to elevate Shem in the eyes of man kind; for he was then more than five hundred and fifty yars old. Second: He was then the only rnan on the earth who had lived before the flood; and had been conversant with the nations, the institu tions, the state of agriculture, arts and scien ces, as understood and practised by the ante diluvians. Third: He was the only man who could tell them about the location of the garden of Eden; a question, no doubt, of great curiosity and moment to those early nations, so near the flood; the manner in which the fall of Adam aud Eve took place. Tic could tell them what sort of fruit it was, and how the treo looked on which it grew; and from Shem, it is more than probable, the Jews received the idea that the forbidden fruit was that of the grape vine, as found in their traditions. Shem could tell them what sort of serpent it was, whether an orang-outang, ps believed by some, that the evil spirit made use of to deceive the woman; he could tell thm about the former beauty of the earth, before it had become ruined by the commotion of the wa ters of the flood: the ferm and situation of countries, and of the extent and amount of human population. He corrld tell them how the nations who filled the earth with their vi d rapine, used to go about the situ ation of the happy garden to which no man was allowed to approaen nor enter, on ac count of the dreadful Cherubim and the flam ing sword; and how they blasphemed against the judgments of the Most High on that ac couut. Fourth: Shem could inform them about the progress of the ark, where it was built, aud what opposition and ridicule his father Noah met with while it was building; ha couid speak respecting the violent manners of the antedi luvians, aud what their peculiar aggravated sins chiefly consisted in what God meant when he said, that "all flesh had corrupted its way-before Him," except the single family of Noah. There are those who imagine, from that peculiar phraseology, "all flesh hath cor ropted its way on the earth," that the human form had become mingled with that of ani mals. If so, it was high time they were drown ed, both man and beast, for reasons tao obvi ous to need illustration here; it -was high time that the soil was purged with water, and torn Political. From 'the Index. Xational Omens i" r The American people are a peculiar people. Their fathers lak. the deep foundation of their mighty republic in the winter snows and on the tempest-beaten shore of the dreary ocean.1 The wilderness and the solitary places gave them a' shelter, and the cold blast from the ice- ' berg of Labrador lulled them to sleep. They came from merry England. They had left behind them tho smiling village and the crow ded mart, the lazy lord and the persecuting biggot, the gothic tower and the long drawn aisle, the King in his tapestried chamber, and the laborer dying with hunger upon the soil which his own hand had tilled, and from which a plentiful harvest had been reaped, to find a last and an abiding resting place in a land of savages in a country .covered with the for ests of centuries, and teeming with perils. The sword, tho rack, and fire, were behind them, and an ocean roared in solemn majesty before. Like the Israelites, they crossed the deep and journeyed: in the wilderness; and like them, the fathers saw not the promised land which tho children now behold in that Canaan which 'stretches itself in beauty and fertijity from the rocky shores of the Bay of Fun'dy to the bank of the vine-clad Sabine. And bad they no pillar of fire by night- no cloud by day to guide them amid the desert, aud to hover above theirr resting places Was there no special Providence manifested in the Pilgrims' march to-glory ? ''The, fingef of God marked their path, aud the roo3t scepti cal among the nations of the eaith pronounces them to be a peculiar people. ' Here rest the last hopes.of liberty! Here burn tho altar-fires of freedom, lighted up by the torch of religion, and fanned by the breath of persecution. The blood of martyrs spriuk- led the teble of sacrifice, and the tears of the- oppressed watered the roots of the tree T)fheL: ter. ' ",. '' Our very existence 13 n. miracle our na tion is an anomaly on the page of historrl Let no one, "then carelessly mock th preg nant signs of tho times. Before Jerusalem was battered down by the cohorts of Titus, the son of Judah, as he sat upon the porch of the holy temple, and looked towards the gate call ed " Beautiful," had less to cause him to fear destruction than have the sons of liberty in this year of wonders this day of death to the mighty of a destruction to the high hopes of the proud. The evening before tho battle of Lexiugton a knight in sable armor, with a white plume streaming from his crest, mount ed upon a coal-black charger, galloped through the streets of Boston, shouting in a voice whose sepulchral tones sent a chill of fear to the breasts of the startled citizens, " To arms ! to arms!" Soon the tramp of hoofs died away, and the horse and his rider weregoue, but with tha blush of dawn came pealing upon the ears of the puritanic sleepers the morninc gun of the Revolution. "When we hear the death-watch ticking in our chambers at midnight, who among us is not? startled ? When our business leads us to journey on Friday, who does not endea vor to put it ofTuntil tho next day ? When the l strange dog howls at midnight beneath our windows, or the village1 bell tolls in the night, breeze, or the corpse lights dance amid the tombs of the church-yara, who can hearer see Jhem without feeling a little ashamed of the iorebodings that shadow the future? Man is a superstitious animal by nature. There is a fearful mystery about him. He fears to penetrate the arcana of the future, and as he walks abroad in" the sunshine, he hears the rustling of the wings of the angel of death in the sound of the falling leaf, and mourns a friend by topside of the dying flower. We aye not superstitious, but therenre some times circumstances in tho life of an individ ual as Well as of a nation that lead to think of tbejdays when omens were regarded as in dexes of the future, and to excuse the men of olden time for their credulity. This year has been an epoch of wonders. The political strifes of a mighty people have stirred up society from its dregs, and shown us what elements are within us to make a second revolution, when the foot of the money god shall stamp in dust the neck of the poor and the ignorant, and the merchant princes shall measure justice with a pedlar's yardstick in the high places of the land. Had the hot blood of party beeu spilt in any portion of our country prior to the Sth of Alarm last, now would the melee have ended ? Who would sleep quietly now iu his bed nor see armed men upon the night watch, nor hear the cry of the sentinels by the Capitol. Since the commencement ot this year tne head of our nation the idol of a party-colored party has been removed by death in such a manner as to cause the whole people at me command of a successor to fast and pray, aud the Senate Chamber and the cloister, the pul pit and the halls of learning to echo to the strains of eulogy and the dirges of sorrow. e noticed some time since u iew i mo most prominent omens which marked the ad vent and the event of tho hero of the North west, but since then others equalht interesting and equally marvellous have occurred, aud de mand a passing notice at our nana3. Prior to the election of general Harrrison last fall, he was invited to address a mass meeting at Zauesville, Ohio, and while wait ing for the hour to arrive when be was to com mence speaking, a terrible thunder storm set tled upon the village. Upon a liberty pole of immense height before the log cabin the American flag was floating gallantly, bearing upou its surface the superfluous motto of" Tip pecanoe," when a vivid stream of lightning descended upon the symbol of party, tore it into a thousand pieces, and shivered the flag stafffiom mast-head !o step. General Harri son and his friends started from their festive board as the terrible crash shook the logs around them, and approached the door. At this moment an express dashed into the entry and handed the General a letter informing him of the sudden dath of his son. Soon af ter this a man in Philadelphia by the name of Hague published a horoscope, in which he stated that neither General Harrison or Mr Van Buren would be President of the United States for the ensuing term, but that the ofiice would be filled by one who had not been named for it, and whose acts would disappoint both parties. This was considered as an idle prediction by many at the time, and scarcely any one gave heed to it ; but what was tha result? the fulfilment of the prediction to the letter. Mr Van Buren went into retirement, covered with honor, Geueral Harrison found a quiet chamber in the congregation of the dead' by the side of the murmuring river, and John Tyler, of Virginia, who had never been looked upon as any thing but a make weight in . the contest, stepped into the house of the people, and took the oath of President of the United States. In our former chapter elsewhere we alluded to the supposed loss of the steamer President. What was conjecture then, is history now -Sne left New York a few days after the inau guration, having on board, among many others the eloquent and lamented Cookman, former chaplain. to the Senate, whose last sermon had beeS preached before the President in Wash-ington--bearing the inauguration to England. Weeks and months have parsed away siuce she left; the mouth of the Hudson. '1 he eyes of the widow and the orphan l ave looked for her upon tha misty deep in vain, and the star of hope has set iu the wild billows. She per-. ished amid the music of the storm. Herdeath cry long echoed amid the hollows of the wares and the bearer of the message of tho new Pres ident went down to the cold caverns of the ocean in the wreck of the President about the moment (and who can nay that it was not at tho very moment) when the cold-hearted and selfish Cabinet were closing the dying eyes of him, whose breath had made them, in the noisy chamber of death. If there are Elysiah fields below whore the dead wander until the trump of the Archanffol sounds to judgement and to glory, miy we not suppose that the messenger "4 the mighty one met at the portals and crossed the threshold of eternity together 1 " The Extra Session of Congress was called by the late Chief Magistrate, and it commenc ed on the 31st of May last. Whettit had completed its organization, the first,. official business was the announcement of the death of the honorable Charles OgleJ the man to whom more than tu-any other Gen. Harrison was indebted for hi3 elevation to, the Jiigh" place of the republic. Tbe next act was to shroud tbe arms of tbe House in mourning, and the next to pension the widow of the dead. A short time after this, before the weeds of mourning had fallen from the arms of the.
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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Sept. 4, 1841, edition 1
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