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¶Common places with their expositions, collected and gathered out of the workes of diuers singular Writers. And brought Alphabe∣ticallie into order. (Book a)
AARON.
How long Aaron was before Christ.
AAron the sonne of Amram, nephew to Leuy, and bro∣ther to Moses, was borne about the yeare before Christs incarnation 1609. at what time as Ame∣nophis was king of Aegypt. Lanquet.
How Aaron is a figure of Christ.
And he stood betwéene the dead. ¶Aaron is héere a figure of Christ, which is the mediatour betwéene God and the Church,* 1.1 which restraineth the iust vengeance of God for the sinnes of the world, which helpeth the chosen when they be in miserie. T. M.
A comparison betweene Aaron and Christ.
Aaron was in nature a perfect man, and so was Christ and more excellent in propertie, being without sinne. Aaron mini∣stred not for the peoples sake, but for his owne also being a sin∣ner: Christ for the people onelie, himselfe néeding nothing. Aa∣ron offered Sacrifice, but other things none of his owne: Christ offered his Sacrifice, his owne, and himselfe. &c. Deering.
What Aarons Bels signified.
As Aaron with his succession was a liuelie figure of our Sa∣uiour Christ Iesu, who is the high Priest for euer, after the or∣der of Melchisedech, by whom they had all a full & perfect salua∣tion, that by him do come to God, liuing alwaies to this end, that he maie appeare in the sight of God for vs.* 1.2 So the golden Bels that he was commanded to haue in the hem of his Tunicle did signifie the earnest & liuelie preaching of the Gospell, whereby Christ our sauiour and his Apostles did waken the world out of the sléepe of death, as all good & faithfull ministers of the Church following his example, and the example of the Apostles, ought to doe. So doth Origen expound it saieng: Let also the high soue∣reigne Priest, haue bels about his garment, that when he goeth into the holie place he maie giue a sound, and not enter into it with silence. And these Bels that ought alwaies to ring, are put