Chap.i6. AlnExpofition upon the ,RóokofJOl. VerCzs>. X49° of it, the tranfgrePÚons of life may be called blood, for two reafons. Firtl, Becaufe it deferves death, and is a (late of death, we are dead is fin, and the wags offin isdeath; and as any kind of death may be expreffed by blood, fo a violent death is the pouring out of blood. Secondly, It may be called blood, becaufe fin is expiatedby blood, and without jheddingofblood there is no rfemifón; nonot of the lealt fin. Secondly, Blood fignifies Come notorious, fin or fins. Great fins are not one bloody fins, but (in Seri ture language) blood. m° "gui ;anor. y t P mint inteUgie Ifa. r . i 5 . T'hettye mare manyprayers, I will not hear : Why ? tur peccaium For your bands are full of blood; that is, Ofgreat and foul gravililmum, crimes : For fhouldwe take blood there, fox any fin, according ac deiefiandum to the former interpretation, then whole prayer thali be fuinua heard ? Who$it is that fins not, yea, who is not full offin ? So that by handsfull 8f Blood, he meanes hands flamed with great fins ; or with fins, if fmall in themfelves , yet , (which greatens the leaft fin) loved and unrepented of (Ezek g. g, Thusfaith the Lord, The iniquity ofthe Houfe of Ifrael, and 7udah, it exceedinggreat, and the Landisfull ofblood ; that is, Ofall kind ofwickednefs, Ezek, 24., 7. For her blood is in the middeff of her, floefet it upon the top ofa rock, fbe poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with duff : Which words defcribe, as the fin of ferufalem, fo her impudence in finning. Her blood was in the midit ofher , it was not call behind the door, or put into a corner, Shefet it upon a Kock, and not onely fo, but upan the topofa Kock; as if the had not only cared not who faw it, but had taken care that all might fee it, Shepox- red it not upon táoe ground, to cover it with duff: In which words the Prophet alludes to that Law; Levit. 17. áa3, com- manding that the bloodof a Beall fhould be poured out, and covered with duff. And again Hof 4.2. By (wearing, and kzlt ding, and(lealing., and committing adultery ; theibreakout, and blood toucbeth blood; that is, One wickednefs is heaped upon another. There isan aggregation, or a combination of many Aggregaatpee fins together, their fins are fo thick fet, that there-is not the t0t'' peccatir ieafl fpace, either of time or place between them ; they tin Cale . continually, and they, fin contiguoufly, fin toucheth fin. Thirdlys
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