Ido The Gofpel of the Burnt-Ofering.,. tuation of the Temple was on the North Side of the City, Pfal. 48, Aloud Sionon the fides of the North. Moreover here is no regard had to the San, and to the Eafl, but thi- ther the Allies were carried forth, as verf. 16. Whereas the Heathen were .accultomed toSacrifice, and to direst their Worfhip towards the Eaft, and towards the Sun, which they made an Idol of. In Oppofi- tion towhich Idolatry, (as force conceive) the Lord appointed his Per). ple to Sacrifice towards the north. And laftly. the Gofpel hath prevailed more in the Nothern Hemif phere of the World,(which allo is more inhabited) than in the Southern. :Ezekiel in his Vilion of theholy City, doth firft d.efcribe the North .1Gates of the Holy City refiored ; which fore think is not without fome- thing of Myftery, Ezek. 48. r, r6, 3o. Tydings out of the North, Dan. II. that is (fay force) the Reformation in thefe Northern Countries, the Tydings whereof is Evil News to Antichrift, and the continual Progrefs of that Work, hath been a continual Trouble to hint thefe hundred and fifty Years. But I think we may acquiefce in what was firft mentioned ; Aynf- worth bath this Note on Lev. 6. 25. hereby was figured that Chrift our Sin-Offering, fhould be killed by the Priefts in 7erufalem and Mount Sion, which was on the fides of the North, Pfal. 48. 2. Crucified on Mount Cavalry, which was on the North -Weft fide offernfalem ; as by the Yews Tradition, the Morning-Sacrifice was killed at the North.. Weft Horn of the Altar. 4. The Blood muff be poured forth at the Foot of the Altar, and fprink- led upon it round about. The former indeed is not expreffed in this Chapter, but it is necefrarily implyed, and you find it exprefred Chap. 8.15. for we muft borrow Light from other Scriptures; pouredforth, Lev. 8. 15. fpririkled in this Chapter verf:.5. And almoft all things in the Law were purged by Blood : Heb. 9. 22. and without fhedding of Blood there is no Remif ion. This was a great Myftery; a Type of the Blood of Chrift; -it leads us to the Elfulion, and to the Application of the Blood of Chrift. I. The Effufion of it, to the Satisfa uion of Divine Juftice.; Ifa. 53. 12. He bath poured oot his Soul unto death. z6. 28. my Blood which isflied for many, for the remiffion ofSins. Jefas Chrift did often bleed for us in the Days of his Humiliation, under the Guilt of our Sins. As at his ,Circumcifion, then were the firth drops of that pure and precious Blood fhed,that Sin-Expiating,that Soul-Saving blood : and in his Agony in the Garden, he did fweat clodded Blood : and when he was fcourged, -then he bled again for us : and when Crowned with Thorns ; and eahis
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