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‘The Priest,’ (observes Bishop Bull) ‘who is not clothed with righteousness—though otherwise richly adorned with all the ornaments of human and divine literature, and those gilded over with the rays of seraphic prudence—is yet but a naked, beggarly, despicable creature, of no authority, no interest, no use, no service in the Church of God.’ Sermon in Clergym. Instruct, p. 286. The inscription—‘Holiness to the Lord’—upon the costly dress of the High Priest strongly marks the adorning of the profession of the ministers of the sanctuary. Exod. 28.28-30. with 39.30, 31. Compare Lev. 21.21.