to be intirely and unreſervedly offered or devoted to God's fervices and that the whole Man did deſerve to beutrerly conſumed, if God thould deal ſeverely with him ; and dire&ed us ro ſerve the Lord with all ſingleneſs of Heart, without ſelf-ends, and to be ready to offer to God even ſuch Sacrifices or Services wherein we our ſelves ſhou!d have no part nor benefit, f As being more perfe& than the Female,Mal: 1: 14. and more truly repreſenting Chriſt: g Of which fee Exod; 29: 1. Levit: 22: 24, ©. To lignify, 1, That God ſhould be ſerved vvith the beft ef every kind, 2. That Man repretented by theſe Sacrifices, ſhould aim at all purity and perfe&tion of Heart ard Life, and that Chriſtians ſhould one day atrain ro it, Eph: 5:27; 3- The ſpotleſs and complear holineſs of Chriſt, Heb: 9: 13, 14. 1 Per; I: 18, 19: and 2: 22, h According to this Tranſlation, the place ſpeaks only of free-will-offerings, or ſuch as were nct preſcribed. by God te be offered in courſe, but were offered ar the pleaſure, and by the voluntary devotion of any perſon, either by way of Suplica- tion for any Mercy which he needcd or cefired,or by way of Thankfa giving for any Favour or Bleſſing received. Bur it may feem impro= per to reſtrain the Rules here given to tree-will-offerings, which were to be obſerved in other offerings allo. And the Hebrew: word ig
by the Seventy,Chaldee,Syriack, and drabick,and others rendred to this
purpoſe, for his acceptation,or that he may be accepted with God, or that God may be atoned, as it is verſs 4. And fo this phraſe is uſed, Lev: 23: 11, #Inthe Court near to tbe door, where the Altar ſtood,vers 5, For here it was to be ſacrificed, and here alſo the People mighr behold the oblation of it. And rhis further fignitizd, rhat men could have no entrance,neither into the earthly Tabernacle, the Church, nor into the heavenly Tabernacle of Glory, but by Chriſt,who is the door, Feh.10: 7, 9. by whom alone we have acceſs to God.
4 * And he ſhall put his hand & upon the head of the
burnt-offering /, and it thall be accepred from him to FExX0d:2
make atonement for him ,
k (7. e. ) Both his hands, Lev. 8: 14, 18: and 16: 21,A common Enallage. 1 Whereby he ſignified, 1. that he willingly gave it to the Lord, 2. Thar hedid wgally unite himſelf withit, and judged himſelf worthy of that death vvhich ir ſuffered in his ſtead;and thar he laid his fins upon it in a ceremonial way, and hadan eye to him upon whom God would /ay the iniquity of ws all, Iſa: 535 6: arid that rogether with it he did freely offer up himſelf to God. wm To wit, ceremonially and ſacramentally; as dire&ing his faith and thoughts to that true Propitiatory Sacrifice which in time was to be offered up for him. See Rem: 3: 25: Heb: 9: 15, 25,26. And although Burnt- offerings were commonly offered by way of thankſgiving, Gen:8:20: Pſal: 51.16, 17. yet they were ſometimes offered by way of atone« ment for ſin, to wit, for ins in general, as appears from Job 1. 5. bur for particular fins there were ſpecial Sacritices, as vve ſhall
ſee. 5 And he » ſhall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the Prieſts, Aarons ſons,ſhall bring the blood, and
{prinkle the blood round about upon the altar o that js +; by the door of the tabernacle'of the congregation. +
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$ P- I. | s Either 1: the Offerer, whois ſaid to do it, to wit, by the Prieſt; for men are commonly faid to do what they cauſe others ' ro do, as Joh: 4: 1, 2. Or 2. the Prieſt, asit follows, or the Levize, whoſe office this was, See Exed. 29: 11; Lev; 8; 15: Numb: 8: 19. 3' Chron: 23: 28, 31. 2 Chron: 3o; 16: and 35; 11. 0 Which was Jone in 2 conſiderable quantity, as may be gathered from Zech: 9:15: and whereby was fignified, 1, That the Offerer deſerved to have his Blood ſpilt in that manner. 2. Thar the Blood of Chriſt ſhould be ured forth for Sinners, and that that was the only mean of their reconciliation to God, and acceptance with him. 6 And he hall ſlay the burat-offering 7, to his pieces 9. p Partly for decency,becauſe the Sacrifices being as 1t were God's food and Feaſt, it was incongruous to offer to God that which men refuſed to ear ; and partly to ſignify,that the great thing which Ged required and bar in men was,not their outward appearance,but their inſide ; and that as he doth ſee all mens infides, ( Heb: 4: 13.)ſo he will one day make them viſible to ethers. q To wit,t he head,and fat, and inwards, and legs, wer. 8: 9.
and cut it in-
the altar,and lay the woodin order upon-the fire. r Or, diſpeſe the fire, i. e. blow it up, and pur it together, ſo 2s it might be fit for the preſent work. For the fire there uſed and allowed came down from Heaven, Lov: 9: 24: and was to be care- | —_ preſerved there, and all other fire was forbidden, Levis: 10: I ,
2 c $ Andthe Priefts Aarons ſons shall lay the parts, the " head and the fats, in order upon the wood that 5s in
the fire which is upon the altar.
s All thefat ; which was to be ſeparated from the Fleſh, to be pur together, to increaſe the flame, and to conſume rhe other parts of the Sacrifice more quickly. Others tranſlate it, the trunkof rhe bedy, as diſtinguiſhed from the head, and joints, and inward
arts. : 9 But the inwards and his legs, shall he wash * in wa- ter,and the prieſt shall burn z!l on the altar,ro be a burnt ſacrifice,an offering made by fire of a ſweet fayour x un- tothe LORD.
t To ſignify theuniverſal and perfe& purity both of the inwards, or the heart, and of the legs,or waysor a&tions,which was in C briſt, and which ſhould be in all Chriſtians. Not only the parts now men- tioned, but all the reſt, the trunk ofthe Body, and the ſhoulders, as is apparent from the praCtice or execution of theſe Precepts. x Not in it {e}f, for ſo it rather cauſed a ftink, but as it repreſented Chriſt's offering up himſelf to God as a ſweet-ſmelling (aveur, Eph: 5: 2:and to admonith us ofthe excellent vertne of Divine inſtitution, with- out vvhich God values no vvorſhip, though never ſo glorious, and by which even the meaneft things are precious and acceptable to God: |
' 10 And if his offering beof the flocks, remely, of the ſheep, or of the goats for a burnt-ſacrifice, he ſhall bring it a male without blemiſh.
11 And he ſhall kill it onthe ſide of the altar north- ward y,before the LORD : and the Prieſts Aarons ſons
ſhall ſprinkle his blood round about upen the altar.