Next, the worshippers brought their burnt offering, as they had done the other, and laying their hands upon it's head

presented it to God. The blood was sprinkled upon the altar, and the flesh all confumed on it. No part of it was eaten by any one. It was an offering made et paffim. by fire, of a sweet favour unto the Lord.

Exod. xxix. 18.

Numb. xxviii. 3.

Numb. xxviii.5,7.

Of this fort were the two Lambs, which were offered every day, the one in the morning, the other towards the evening; and along with each of them flour, oil, and wine for a meat, and a drink offering.

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than the beast shall be again found which is ef caped into the wilderness, Levit. xvi. 21, 22. The phrafe in the 10th verfe, to make atonement with him, is a mistake in the tranflation, and fhould not be, with, but, over him : the word

is often ufed after, but never, I believe, in that fenfe, in all the Old Teftament. For the reft, we are not to wonder that by the Jewish ritual the atonement was ftill carried on through fo many ceremonies, or even fo many facrifices, one after another, as if it were never complete. It is from a fimilar circumftance to this, that the Apoftle to the Hebrews (chap. x.) draws his fine argument for the imperfection and infufficiency of that whole difpenfation.

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Of this fort are thought to have been the facrifices of the Patriarchs, from the flood to the days of Mofes. Such was

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that of Noah. He builded an altar unto Gen. viii, the Lord, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings upon the altar. Such was the offering of Ifaac, or such it was ordered to be, and fuch was that of the Ram in his ftead. Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering. And Abraham took the Ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering, in the ftead of his fon.

After the fin offerings, and burnt offerings, there ftill remained one fpecies of facrifices more, and these were called the facrifices of peace offerings.

Of these there were various forts, which we need not specify, this principal circumftance being common to them VOL. II.

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all;

Gen. xxii.

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all; that, part being firft given to the altar, and part to those who ministered at it, the reft of the facrifice appertained to the worshippers.

At their first approach with their offerings for fin, they appeared as enemies or rebels; yet repenting, acknowledging the punishment which they had deferved, and fubmitting, by fubftitution, to the infliction of it.

The burnt offering which came next, Iwas a tribute to the heavenly king, a token of their acknowledged allegiance, and renewed loyalty; and placed the worshippers in the light of faithful fubjects, under his fovereign government, and omnipotent protection.

Laftly, having prefented their facrifice of peace offerings, they became, as it were, of the number of his friends and family; feafting of the fame meat,

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and being guests at one common table with the Divinity whom they adored.

Now as all these facrifices, confidered as types, are accomplished, and the beneficial intention of every one of them finally answered, by the facrifice of our Lord Chrift upon the crofs; we are not to wonder if we find him compared in the new Testament to every one of them. And if one part of any fuch comparison fhould lead us to think of one of these kinds of facrifice, and fome words that follow rather turn our thoughts to another, neither is this any mighty difficulty, fince he was prefigured by them. all.

St. Paul speaks of our Lord as an offering for fin. *That he might reconcile Ephef. ii. both (Jews and Gentiles,) unto God in one

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Αποκαλαλλάξῃ τὰς ἀμφοτέρως ἐν ἑνὶ σώματι τῷ
Δι' αὐτῷ ἔχομεν τὴν προσα-

Θεῷ διὰ τὸ ταυρ γωγήν.

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body by the cross: -for through him we both have an access by one fpirit unto the Father. If there can be any doubt of this, it will be made plain by the paral

1 Pet. iii. lel words of St. Peter. *Chrift hath once fuffered for fins, the just for the unjuft, that he might bring us to God.

Yet, the fame Apoftle St. Paul, and in the fame Epiftle, reprefenting our Lord again as a facrifice, makes choice of fuch terms as are not commonly applied to facrifices for fin, but to peace offerings, and the oblations that accomEph. v. 2. panied them: +Chrift alfo hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering,

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and a facrifice to God, for a fweet fmelling 11300 Qc favour. An offering or oblation; it is the meat offering of flour and oil which accompanied the burnt offerings, and peace offer

Χρισὸς ἅπαξ περὶ ἁμαρτιῶν ἔπαθε, δίκαι ὑπὲς ἀδίκων, ἵνα ἡμᾶς προσαγάγῃ τῷ Θεῷ.

† Παρέδωκεν ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν προσφορὰν καὶ θυ σαν τῷ Θεῷ, εἰς ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας.