The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

for God in establishing his Orders in Israel, did so subject Aaron (in his Priesthood being the figure of Christ) to Moses, that he feared not to call him in judgement, and to constrain him to give accounts of his wicked deed in consenting to Idolatry, as the History doth plainly witness; for thus it is written; Then Moses took the Calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, and did grind it to powder; ¹and scattering it in the water, gave it to drink to the children of Israel, declaring thereby the vanity of their Idol, and the abomination of the same: And thereafter Moses said to Aaron, What hath this people done to thee, that thou shouldest bring upon it so a great sin?

for God in establishing his Orders in Israel, did so subject Aaron (in his Priesthood being the figure of Christ) to Moses, that he feared not to call him in judgement, and to constrain him to give accounts of his wicked deed in consenting to Idolatry, as the History doth plainly witnesse; for thus it is written; Then Moses took the Calfe which they had made, and burned it with fire, and did grinde it to powder; ¹and scattering it in the water, gave it to drink to the children of Israel, declaring thereby the vanity of their Idol, and the abomination of the same: And thereafter Moses said to Aaron, What hath this people done to thee, that thou shouldest bring upon it so a great sin?

1. 1Exod. 32.

Thus, I say, doth Moses call Aaron, and accuse him of the destruction of the whole people; and yet he perfectly understood that God had appointed him to be the high Priest, That he should bear upon his shoulders and upon his breast the names of the twelve Tribes of Israel, for whom ⟨p. 27⟩