in Cottírtbíttg o(.,(aáiL'0En£mption. 135 with the Sacrifice. As when a Man was (lain, and the Ch. XIII. Murderer was not found; the Elders of the Citynext r J to the dead Body, were to kill an Heifer in a Vally, and to pray that innocent Blood might not be laid to their charge: otherwife the Land couldnot be cleanfed from the guilt of Blood, but by the Blood of the Murtherer. 2. The Efeas of there Sacrifices declare their na- Thofe ef°ell, ture : And they are anfwerable to their threefold re- e expre f lfby e& to God, to Sin, to Man. To God, that his ,ar and P t..iuri with Anger might be appealed ; to Sin, that the fault might he H `ewers, be expiated; to Man, that the guilty perron might ob- ccòs,xxvaec- tain Pardon, and Freedom from Punithment. Thus alas, daoru- when a Sacrifice was duly offered, 'tis Paid to be of a terms vith the Geeet;s. fweet favourunto the Lord, and to atone him, Lev. t. Lev. 4.20,26, 17. and theRemithonof Sins, with the lieleafe of the 31" 35' Sinner followed; ThePrieflflrall expiate it, that is de- claratively, and it ,/ball be forgiven him. Now there was a double Guilt contracted by thole that were under the Mofaical Difpenfation. z. Typical, From the breach of a Ceremonial Con- flitution, which had no relation to Morality. Such were natural Pollutions, accidental Difeafes, the touch- ingof a dead Body, &c. which were efleemedvicious according to theLaw, and the Defiled were excluded from sacredand CivilSociety. Now there Impurities,, confidered in themfelves, deferved no puni(hment. For involuntary and inevitable Infirmities, and corporeal things, which do not infect the inward man, are the marks of our abject and weak fiate, but are not in themfelves finful. Therefore Ceremonial Guilt was expiated by a Ceremonial Offering. For 'tis accord- ing to the nature of things, that Obligations should be diffolved by the fame means, by whichthey arecon- traded. As therefore thofe Pollutions were penal H h 2 merely
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