This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... Chap. VI, THE PRIESTHOOD. The investiture of the Priesthood, laid down in the two following chapters (Exod. xxvii. xxix.), is deeply interesting, though both clothing and consecration have scanty measure dealt out in the "Typology." Aaron had to be clothed with special vestments for drawing near to the Lord, as representing the people whose names he bore: the type of what Christ does for us in heaven, hidden in God, like the high priest in the most holy place on the great day of atonement. A priest supposes miseries, infirmities, failures; he is a mediator to intercede for and represent the people before God. By this gracious provision our wretchedness becomes the occasion, not of judgment, but of the display of God's compassion and tenderness, while our great High Priest presents us to God in His perfection. The detail of this appears in these types. Redemption is supposed as the ground. Priesthood is not to redeem, but to maintain those redeemed in spite of failure. The garments, &c, figure that which is real in Christ, exercising His priesthood for us. The Ephod was characteristically the priestly garment. It was made of the same materials and colours as the veil, save that no cherubim are here, for it was the emblem of Christ's essential purity and varied graces, apart from His judical rights. Gold, too, was here, not in the veil--the emblem of divine righteousness, which has its appropriate place, when the veil was rent in Christ, the heavenly priest. It had two shoulder-pieces to it, and stones of memorial, which bore the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. There was an embroidered girdle which accompanied it, the sign of service, and a breastplate, which was to be carefully secured to the ephod, and which also bore twelve...