d pillar shall be
nothing other than Christ himself. And just as little as the
power of any one of these twelve extends over the others, so
little does Peter have power over the other apostles, and the
pope over other bishops and priests, by divine right.

[Sidenote: Wherein the Pope is Untrue to the Type of Aaron]

One thing more, my good, dear Romanists, and then I have done. I
ask most graciously for a correct answer. If Aaron was a type of
the pope in external authority, vestments and state, why was he
not a type in all other external and bodily matters; if it holds
in one thing, why not in all the others?

It is written that the high-priest shall not take a widow or a
divorced woman, but shall wed a virgin [Lev. 21:14]; why do they
not give the pope a virgin to wed, so that the type may be
fulfilled? Nay, why does the pope forbid matrimony to the whole
priesthood, not only contrary to the Old Testament type, but also
in opposition to God, and against right, reason, and nature, a
thing which he has no authority, nor power, nor right to do, and
over which the Church has never exercised authority, nor should
it ever do so. So by his own caprice, without need, he has caused
Christendom to be filled with whores, sinners, and guilty
consciences, as St. Paul says of him, I. Timothy iv: "In the
latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in
hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron,
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which
God hath created, etc." [1 Tim. 4:1 ff.]

Does Paul herein not hit the Roman laws, which forbid the
priesthood to marry, and command all Christians to abstain from
butter, eggs, milk, and meats on certain days, while God Himself
has left it to the free choice of Christians in every estate to
eat or to marry, as they desire? Where are you now, my Romanist
of the observance, with all your ranting that not one detail of
the Old Testament type shall be omitted, and that every iota must
be fulfilled? Yea, where is the pope, the successor of St. Peter,
who was married, as was St. Paul[55] and all the Apostles?

[Sidenote: The Tonsure]

Again, the Old Testament high-priest was not permitted to have
his head shorn [Lev. 21:5]. But why does the pope have a tonsure,
and all the other priests, too? Wherein is the type fulfilled
here to the very dot? Again, the High-priest was forbidden to own