He showed that the power of the Melchisek p’d [priesthood] was to have the power of an “endless lives[”] he showed that the everlasting covenant could not be broken, and by the sacrifice required of Abraham the fact that when God offers a blessing or knowledge to a man and he refuses to receive it he will be damned— mentioning the case of the Israelites praying that God would speak to Moses & not to them— in consequence of which he curse[d] them with a carnal law. [p. [103]]