202 The Go, pet oft e Burnt-Offering. taken off;. and the Body of the Sacrifice muff be cut afunder, yet not meerly chopt in pieces and mangled, but according to the feveral Joynts and Pieces of the Body ; for God will bave Order in the Things of his Worfhip. The Skin was the Priefts Portion, fee Cap. 7, S. As to the Myflery of this, I would not make too curious an Appli- cation ofit ; but there may be Four Things we may Obferve and Learn out of it. 1. It related in general to the Sufferings of Chris; for great Suffer- ings are fet forth . by fuch Expreflìons,. Micah. 3. 2, 3. Who bate the Good and love the Evil, who pluck off their Skin from off them, and their Flefh from off their Bones : Who alfo eat the Flefh of my People, andflay their Skin from of them, &c. Pfal. zz. i g, i 6'. 2. Something we may note here as to fpiritual Clothing : Skins were firft ufed for Apparrel, God clothed Adam with Skins, Gen. 3. 2'. And much of our Clothing at this Day, is either the Skins of Beafls, or the Hair and Wool taken from thofe Skins. As the Sacrifice being . dead and flain, did leave a Skin for clothing to the Prieft by whofe Hand he died : So fefus Chrift our true Sacrifice, who was lead as a Sheep to the Slaughter for our Sins, yet being dead, leaves a Garment ofRighteoufnefs to cloth Believers with ; therefore we are fail to put on Chrift as a Garment. Rom. 13. 14.. Pot ye on the Lord fefus Cbrift. 'Eativ cOe. Jacob got the Bleffing, having his Hand and his Neck covered with Goat-Skins, and being clothed in the Garments of his Elder Brother. So Believers are Blefl'ed of God, beingclothed with the Righteoufnefs of5efus Cbrift. 3. Whereas the Sacrifice in this Anion was laid open, and the in- ward Partsof it difcovered to open View ; fo is 5efus Chrift fury and openly difcovered in the Preaching of the Gofpel, Gal. 3. i. before whofe Eyes Yefus Cbrift bath been evidently fit forth, crucified among you, like a Sacrifice that is flayed and cut afunder. Moreover God fees the inward part of every Service, of every Sacri- face we prefent unto him. As the Sacrifice was yv & 1e x is 'vo flayed and cut up, Heb.4.t 2, r 3.. fo all Things are y before him witb whomwe bave to do. The Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God fearcheth the Heart, as the facrificing Knife did the Bowels of the Beaft ; there is no Skin, no cloke of Hypocrify that on hide thee from the Lord. 4. The Skin of the Sacrifice went to the Prieft : It was part ofhis Main- tenance. See Cap. 7. 8. and the Prieft that offereth any Man's Burnt-Of- fering, even the Frill (hall have to bimjelf, the Skin of the Burnt -Offers g
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