Their little can't be spared ; and if they are rich, Their victim is too costly. Away with such low and niggardly thoughts : let the large and liberal spirit of Christianity possess your souls : let nothing that you have endured, move you ; nor any thing that you can endure : be willing to be bound, or even to die, for the Lord's sake. As for your lusts, let them be sacri- ficed, and utterly consumed: the sooner they are mortified, the better. And those things, which, if not called for by God in the way of his providence, you might innocently retain, bring to the altar with your own hands, and, of your own voluntary will, offer them to God : spare not any thing one moment, if it stand in competition with your duty, and the maintenance of a good conscience before God. In a word, " present your own selves to him a living sacrifice ; for that is y our reasonable service ; and it shall be accepted of your God1'."]
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Lev. ii. 1 — 3. And when any will offer a meat-offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour : and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon: and he shall bring it to Aaron s sons, the priests : and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the me- morial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord : and the remnant of the meat- offering shall be Aaron s and his sons' : it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
IN order to a judicious exposition of the types, it is necessary that we should have certain canons of interpretation, to which we should adhere : for, with- out them, we may wander into the regions of fancy, and cast an obscurity over those Scriptures which we undertake to explain. Now it must be remembered, that Christ and his Church, together with the whole work of salvation, whether as wrought by him, or as enjoyed by them, were the subjects of typical exhi- bition. Sometimes the type pointed more immediately at one part of this subject, and sometimes at another; and sometimes it applied to different parts at the same time. The tabernacle, for instance, certainly repre- sented Christ, " in whom dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily:" and it represented the Church also