NUMBERS X I X biostd mhicb was on hie finger roar smlawfull to frinke with ; therefore at every prinking he wiped his finger on the body of the he ff r. When he had made an end of fprinkl eeg , he wiped his bands on the beifërs body and came damn from the pile , and kindled the fire with fmall ticks , which he put under the flicker of the pile, and the fire began to Game, and the Pri fl flood a f erre ff, and obferved it , till the fire burned upon ber and ber belly cleft efunder. And afterward he tools; Ce- dar wood and lyffpe, not leffè than an handbredth, and waoll diedin fè.rrlet', five fhekels weight , &c. And he betendthe hyffòpe with the Cedar with the tongue [or long-piece] of carlet, and cat them into her belly, (Num- bers 19. 6.1 And he cat them not in, before the fire was kined upon the bulk of ber body, nor after that fhe was burnt to after ; and if he did, it was tsn- larofell fir it is faid, into the midi of the burning, not before the fire it kindled on ber body , nor after fee is turned to afees. Maimony in Pharah àdunlmah, chap. 3. fed.. 1, 2. 7 Verfe 7. Waft hit clothes] which was a figs of purification from uncleannes, as is noted on Lev. 11.2 5. & 15.5. The fame was concerning him that burned the heifer, v. 8. and the clean man that gathered up her afhes,verf.9,1o.Hereby the imperfeítion of the legal Prierabood was mewed, in that the Priels which prepared the meanes of fanlification for the Church, were themfelves polluted in the preparing and doing of them, as may be gathered by proportion front Heb. 7.27, 28. & 10.1,2,3. The finne alloofthe Priefts,and others that procured the deathofChrift(though it was the lite of the world) feemeth hereby to befignified, Mat.26.65 66, &c. A &.2.22,23,'38. & 3.14i15,17,18,19. Albeit, by the tradition of the Hebrewes , they were very carefull about the cleannelfe of the Prices, when they did this worke: for ,the Prieds that burned this heifer, They feparated him (front his houle) to a chamber prepared in the Court (of the Temple) which was called the Stone chamber, besaufe all the vef/s thereof were of ten, which doe receive no uncleanneff, and he mini fired in a vef /I of tone , all the fever daies that he wou feparated, and bee brethren the Fritts might not touch him , for the more care of his eleannete. Seven daies before the burning of the heiffer, they feparated the Prie i that burned her tom his boffe , at they feparated the high Frief for his fervice on Atonement-day, (wher- of fee the notes on Leviticus 16. 33.) Alfo they fè arated him from his wife, let he faould have her cliff: e, and floe be unclean liven dates, (as Leviticus t 24.) Every of shoji fever dries tf his fiparation, they fprinkled him with the water of purification (let he feould be unekam by the dead, and not ¡gnaw it.) and with the afar of the heifer that bad been burned already (before.) Maimony he Pharah,ch.2. Not - wtthltanding all this care, Whofoever bufe them- fives about this heff r from the beginning to the end, doe make their garments unekàne, and are bound to mafk themfelves, and are unclean till she evening. And wherefxever the Law ffreaketb of wafhitig of clothes fir uncleanneffl, it is to -teach ut, that not the clothes only upon him are unclean, but every cloth or veffll which this uneleane perfon foal touch, whiles his un- .- [ a .,.+aa..=r..ar 119 cleanneff is on him , it made oarless. And not this heifer only, but all Sits-feting! that are burnt (with- out the campe) whether bullocks or goats ; he that bur- ned., them, defiletb hit clothes, the time of the burning of them, till they be turned to afees : (Leviticus 16. 28.) Maim. ibidem, chap. 5. Verl 9. a man that is Beane] this man is Paid in Thargum Jonathan, to be a Priefl. the after] It is reported , that After they had firrified the burning of ber, they beat ber withflaves , her and all the wood of the pile wherewith fhe was burned.and ffted all withfenes: and what f ever was black , which poffible they could pound and mall it affres, either of ber flefh, or of the wood , they pounded it till it was made afhes ; and that whichhadno afhes in it, they left the fame; and every of her bones that remained unbiernt, they pounded. Mai- mony in Pharab, chap. 3. feft.3. As the burning of the heiffer fignified the fufferings of Chrilt, Heb. 13.1 x, t 2. fo the afees were the monument of his moll bate and ntmolt afiliftions; for afees were u- fed as greaten fgnes of furrow and mifery, 2 Sa- muel 13.19. Job 30.19. & 42.6. Jer.6,26. and to be brought to afees upon the earth, is noted for the extremitie of Gods fiery judgements, Eze.z 8,18. But the memoriall of Chrills mot ignóminious death,is to be kept as a mora glorious monument of our life , juilification & Lin&ificatioth through faith in his name, I Cor.1 x:24, 26. Gal. 6.14. Phil.3. 8,9ì 1 o. without the campe] to lignifie, that they which would have part in the death of Chrin, nmragoe forth unto him , without the canope, bepringhie reproach, Heb. 13. 13. in a cleaneplace] figuring a cleane heart,. and pure confcience , in which onely the monuments of Chrifts death are referved by faith, A&. 15.9. Hebrews to. 22. Ephel 3.17. The Hebrews fay , They gathered not any of her afees to lay up in the Court (of the Sanftna- rie;) but they divided all the afees imo ihr,e parts. One part they put in (the place called) the Clxil, [the Fort or Frontier] and another part, in mount Olivet, and the third was parted to all the Wards (or Curao- dies of 'the Levites.) That which mar parted to all the Wards, the Priefo fanliifed therewith; and that which was put-in mount Olivet , the Ifraelites fprfnkled with it : and that which was put in the Cheil, was referved and laid up, as it is written, AND IT SHALL BE FOR THE C O N G K E G A T I O N F O E A R E - S ER VA Ti O N; to teach that they laid up (fame) of it And thus they laid up Tome of every /stiffer which they burned, in the Cheil. And they did (borne) nine red heifers,, after they were com- manded this Precept, till the defolatian of the fecund Temple. The till was done by Mofes our wafer, the frond by Ezra, and limn after Ezra, till the Tem- ple was defroytd. And the tenth fballbe done by the King Chris , who be revealed with ked, Amen, So be the good rage of God. Maimony in Pharah, chap. 3 feftion 4. This lark fpeech of the Jew', (hew - eth their zeale without knowledge; for, ere know that the Sonne of God is come, and bath given ue an undertanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in bit Sonne,le- fro Cbrif, a Joh.5,zo. and by him was this legali type
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