The Gofpel of the Burnt-Oferzng. 195 Numb. 8. t2.-At the Purification of unclean Perfons, and upon feveral other Occafions. 3: At their Rated Feftivals and appointed Seafons, which were both daily, weekly, monthly, and anniverfarr. Of which hereafter. A- mong the rest, there was a con&nt Burnt-Offering every Day., or ra- ther two Burnt -Offerings, the one in the Morning, the ueeotheriat Evening, Exod. 29. 38, 42. Numb. 28. 3, 4. % f cium. -rr h r159 whereof Daniel fpeaks, how it was profanely inter- rupted by Antiochus, Dan. 8. i t, 12. The Endof it ( as of the reft ) was Atonement, reconciliation and remifion of Sin ; Ver. 9. a Savour of Refs, or a fweot Savour. Fcr as a fweet finell refreiheth and quieteth the Senfes : So C.hria:3 Oblation appeafeth pod's Spirit, in Ainfw. in loc. Hence is that Phrafe, Ezra 6. 9, Io. Sacrifices of Reif, or of fweet Savours to the God of Heaven ; fo Ephef. 5.2. Chrift gave himfelf for us, an Offering, and a Sacrifice to God for a,Tweet Pulling Savour. The Laws and Ordinances of the Burnt - Offering were either con- cerning the Matter of it, or the Anions to be performed about it; which being different,, according to the different Matter of it, will come in under the feveral forts of Matter whereof the Sacrifice was to confift, which was in general clean Creatures. This Rule was tobe obferved in all the Sacrifices ; and it was very Ancient; for we read of this Diftinaion of Beafts into clean and unclean, even in Noah's Time, Gen. i. 2. and Gen. 8. 20. There were two forts of Cleanneffes of the irrational Creatures, clean for Sacrifice, and clean for Food. Of the Cleannefs for Food, we read in Lev. 1 I. which feems tohave been then firft appointed; for to the Sons of Noah there is no fuch Reftriaion given, but a large and general Commif[ion to eat any wholefome Flefh, Gen. 9. 3. Every moving thing that liveth,, (hall be Meat for you, But the cleannefs and uncleannefs for Sacrifice, feems to have been from the very firft Inftitution of Sacrifices. TheRule whereof in ge- neral is this, that there were no wild Beafts or Fowls, no ravenous, carnivorous Beafts or Birds of Prey allowed in Sacrifices, but fuch as were of the milder fort. The reafon whereof is thought to be partly from their Properties being more harmlefs and innocent, more ufeful and profitable, and ferviceable Creatures to Man's Ufe, and fo fitteft to fignify. the like Things in Chr , and in his People : And partly becaufe of Man's peculiar Poffe on and Propriety in them, be- ing more fully in his Power and Poffeffion, than the Wild Beans of C c 2 the
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