ry one
questions, and then you draw the conclusion to suit yourself.

[Sidenote: A Lesson in Logic]

Listen to me, I will give you a better lesson in logic. I agree
with you in saying: All that is typified by the high-priest in
the Old Testament must be fulfilled in the New, as St. Paul says
in I. Corinthians i. Thus far we agree. Now you continue: St.
Peter, or the pope, was typified by Aaron. Here I say, Nay. And
what can you do then? Now show your learning, and call the whole
crowd of Romanists to assist you, bring just one jot or tittle
from the Scriptures in defence, and I will call you a hero. On
what foundation have you builded, however? On your own dreams;
and yet you boast you will argue against me with the Scriptures.
It was not necessary for you thus to play the fool against me, I
should have had a fool to overcome at any rate.

[Sidenote: Aaron a Type of Christ]

Listen to me further: I say that Aaron was a type of Christ, and
not of the pope. And when I say this, I do not utter my own
invention, as you do; but I will prove it, so that neither you,
nor the world, nor all the devils shall overthrow it. In the
first place, Christ is a spiritual priest for the inner man; for
He sitteth in heaven, and maketh intercession for us as a priest,
teaches us inwardly in the heart, and does everything a priest
should do in mediating between God and man, as St. Paul says,
Romans iii, and the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. Aaron, the
type, is bodily and external, but the fulfilment is spiritual and
inward, and the two agree together. [Rom. 3:25]

Secondly, in order not to bring my own thoughts, I have the
passage, Psalm cx, "The Lord hath sworn and will not repent: Thou
art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." [Ps. 110:4]
Can you also bring a passage like that about St. Peter or the
pope? For I think that you will not deny that this passage refers
to Christ, as St. Paul, in Hebrews v. [Heb. 5:6] and at many
other places, and our Lord Christ Himself, in Matthew xxii, so
explain it [Matt. 22:44]. Thus we can see how beautifully the
Romanists treat the Scriptures and make out of them what they
like, as if they were a nose of wax, to be pulled around at will.

Now we have proved by the Scriptures that Christ is the
High-priest of the New Testament. Clearer still is Paul's
comparison of Aaron and Christ in Hebrews ix, when he says: "Into
the first tabernacle the priests went every day, to offer the
sacrif