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SECTION XLVI.
High Priests Garments.
NEXT unto his flesh he had a coat wrought checker work, this reacht down to his* 1.1 heels: such a coat as this each one of his Sons had, Exod. 39. 27. This was made of fine linnen: and it was girded to him about his loyns, with a needle wrought girdle, of divers colours.
About this he put another coat, called the coat of the Ephod, because the Ephod, be∣ing* 1.2 put upon this did gird it. This coat was of all one stuff and colour, namely, of fine yarn dyed purple. This coat he put not on after the ordinary fashion of putting on coats which were open before, but this he put on like a Surpless, over his head, for it had a hole in the top where-through he put his head, and this hole was edged about with an edging of the same stuff woven in, that the hole should not rent. At the skirts of this coat, were made Pomegranates of linnen and woollen of divers colours, and Bells of gold, so that there were a Bell and a Pomegranate, a Bell and a Pomegranate, round about: This coat was not so long as the under coat, for then the Bells would have drawn on the ground, and would not have been heard, which to have missed had been death to Aaron: this represented to the Priests, that the sound of good doctrine, and fruit of good living, must always be about them, as these Bells and Pomegranates: This coat also did fitly resemble Christs humane Nature. First, as this was of one stuff without mixture, so that, without corruption. Secondly, as this was put on after an extraordinary man∣ner, so Christ put on humanity by an extraordinary conception and generation. Third∣ly, as was the edge about the hole to keep it from renting, such was the unseparable uni∣on of Christs two natures. Fourthly, as were the Bells and Pomegranates, such were his life and doctrine.