signify in the New Testament spiritual and inward
things, which one cannot see, but possesses only in faith. St.
Augustine understood the types in this manner, when he says[49]
on John iii, "This is the difference between the type and its
fulfilment: the type gave temporal goods and life, but the
fulfilment gives spiritual and eternal life." [John 3:14] Now the
outward show of Roman power can give neither temporal nor eternal
life, and therefore it is not only no fulfilment of the type of
Aaron, but far less than the type, for that was established by
divine direction. For if the papacy could give either eternal or
temporal life, all the popes would be saved and be in good
health. But he who has Christ and the spiritual Church, is truly
saved and has the fulfilment of the type, yet only in faith. And
since the pope's external show and the oneness of his Church can
be seen with the eyes, and we all see it, it is not possible that
he can be the fulfilment of any type. For the fulfilment of types
must not be seen, but believed.

[Sidenote: The High-Priest Not a Type of the Pope]

Now see--are they not skilful masters who make the high-priest of
the Old Testament to be a type of the pope, when the latter makes
as much, nay more of an external show than the former, and thus a
bodily thing is made to be the fulfilment of a bodily type! That
would mean that type and fulfilment are exactly alike. But if
this type is to stand, the new high-priest must be spiritual, and
his graces and adornment likewise spiritual. The prophets also
saw this when they said of us, Psalm cxxxii, "Thy priests shall
be clothed with faith or righteousness, and Thine anointed ones
shall be adorned with joy." [Ps. 132:9] As if he would say: Our
priests are types, and are clothed externally with silks and
purples, but your priests shall be clothed with grace inwardly.
Thus is this miserable Romanist routed with his "type," and his
jumbling together of much Scripture has been in vain. For the
pope is an external priest, and they think of him in his external
power and adornment. Therefore Aaron cannot have been a type of
him; we must have another.

[Sidenote: Scriptural Types Interpreted in Scripture]

In the second place--in order that they may realize how far they
are from the truth--even if they had been wise enough to give a
spiritual fulfilment to the type, yet that would not stand the
test, unless they had a clear passage from the Scriptures, wh