198 The Gofpel ofthe Burnt-Ofering. bring it to the Door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to be of fered upon the Altar which flood there. For Chrift is both the Door and the Tabernacle, and the Altar, and the Prie.íb : He is the Door of the Sheep, John io. 7. And he is the the true Tabernacle and the San- Zluary which the Lord bath pitched, and not Man, Heb. 8, 2. Agreater and more perfell Tabernacle not made with Hands, Heb. 9. it. And he is the Altar, Heb. 13. ro. which fanttifies the Gift, and makes it ac- cepted, Matth. 23. 19. And Chrift is the Prieft alfo, that prefents and offers up our Sacrifices to the Lord : He is often called a Prieft, and our great High Prieft. This therefore teacheth us, That all our Ac- cefs unto, and Acceptation with the Lord, is only in and through fefics Chrift: It is through him alone that, our Services and Sacrifices are accepted : There is no Acceptance out of Chrift : For he that negle&- ed this, was to be cut off, Lev. 17. 8, 9. 3.They are to bring it hither before the Face of the Lord,or the Pretence ofthe Lord: This refers to the holieft ofall,where God dwelt,and where his Prefence did appear. So the meaning is, that we are to fee God in all our Services, and to eye the Prefence of God, and that he is to be feen, there, and there only, even in and by the Lord Jefus Chrift, Luke i. 75. that we might ferve him before bim --. -Z Cor. 4.6. the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God, in the Face of Yefus Chrift. q.. The Tabernacle was a Type of the Church; which is often cal- led the Tabernacle and Temple and Houfe of God. We are to wor- $hip God in his Church, in the AfJ'emblies of his People, Heb. to. 25. and 12. 22 , 23 So much for the firft Ceremonial Aecion about the Burnt- offering. 2. The Sinner that brought the Sacrifice, was to lay his Handupon the Head of it, verf. ç. this was not required in the Sacrifice of Fowls, but only of Beafts,, fee the like, Exod. 29. to. There is force Contro- verfy here, whether he was to lay on his right Hand or his left Hand, or both : But feeing it is in the angular Number, and feeing it is exprefly commanded, that the Prieft fhould lay on both bi,s Hands, Lev. 16. 21. that is, both for his own Sins and the Peoples : Therefore it it is thought by force not improbably, that when any of the People offered, he laid on but one Hand. But whether the right, or the left? We may fuppofe that whatfoever was not limited by God, was left at Liberty.` This Ceremony relates to the Confefon of Sin, and the Tranflation of the Guilt of it upon the Sacrifice : The Offerer in this Ceremony dif- burthening himfelf Of Sin, and putting over his own Guilt upon the Sacrifice; lb- it is explained, Lev. 16. 2 r.. He (haól -lay' on his Hands, and
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