_But made like the Son of God_. This expression, _like_, seems dark to many at first sight, but when we look at the Subject altogether, it is very clear that none can be like God but God himself. None can be like such a Priest, after such an Order, but the High Priest, Jesus himself. The body he was to assume from the beginning, he frequently assumed a likeness of. Hence Nebuchadnezzar saw one like the Son of God in the Furnace. Now no christian can for a moment disbelieve that this was Christ; and that, long before his incarnation, the likeness that appeared was the likeness of his body, now glorified. This appeared to Joshua, to Moses, to Lot, to Abraham, Jacob, Ezekiel, and John.—These all saw the likeness of the body that is now in heaven. So that this Son of God appeared like the Son of God, after his glorification. He loved our nature so well that he anticipated the assumption of it; he rejoiced in the habitable parts of the earth, and _his delights were with the Sons of Men_. This the dear Redeemer shewed frequently, by his visits to our earth, in the likeness of that body which is now raised and glorified, and to which likeness the bodies of God’s elect are predestinated to be conformed. I would make the remark here, as we have answered the above objection, so another is started, _How_, _and in what sense could this Melchisedec receive tithes_? And, if a divine Person, _What did he do with them_? On this I must confess there is a difficulty. Paul says he _met_ Abraham—yet the word (as say the learned) means _being in company together_. We shall now investigate this Subject a little, and attend to its signification.