204 The Gofpel of the Burnt-Offering. evil Confcience, Heb. zo. 22. they are made clean both within and with- out, and their Filthinefs wafht away through Jefus Chrift. 8. The feveral Parts of the Offering muff be laid upon the Altar and burnt With Fire, till it be confunted and burnt to Afhes. Seeing the Fire which once fell from Heaven, Levit. 9. 24. was to be continually kept and preferved upon the Altar, Levit. 6. 12. and the Ufe of all other Fire forbidden in Sacrifices, Levit. zo. 1. putting of Fire upon the Altar in this Place, can fignify nothing but kindling of it, Diodat. in Levit. 1. 7. See Levit. 6. 9. the Fire burnt all Night. The. Wrath of God is the Fire, and Sin the Wood or Fuel that feeds it. This is the Fire of the Juftice and Wrath of God from Heaven, which feized upon Chrift ; and every part of him ( as all the parts of the Offering ) was burnt ; his Head crowned withThornes, his Side pierced withthe Spear, his Hands and Feet with Nails, his whole Bo- dy did fweat drops of Blood, yea his Soul was heavy unto the Death,, yea burnt to Afhes as it were, brought to the utmoft Extremity of Mifery His Saints alfo endure the fiery Tryal, z Pet. q.. 12. Though theirs is not a Fire of Expiation, as Chrift's was, .Heb. 12. to. but on- ly a Fireof Purgation which they pats through in this Life, to prepare and fit them for Heaven : But after this Life, there is no Purgatory as the Papifts dream. 9. The 4(hes Waft be carried out of the Camp into a clean Place, Levit. 6.1o, 1'i. The contrary isfaid of the Rubbifhof a Leprous Houfe, that the Duft and Stones thereof, (hould be poured forth into an unclean Place, Levit. 14. 40, 41. For they came from a polluted Houfe. But thefe from the Lord's holy Dwelling-place, and were the Reliques of an holy 1 hing which the Lord here manifefts that he hath a fpecial regard of, This Ceremony is applied by the Apoftle to Chrift, Heb. 13. 1 r, 12, r3. Look as the Afhes of the Sacrifice being burnt, fignified the dead Body of Chrift ; fo the carrying of the Afhes out of the Camp, fignified how his crucified Body fhould not be buried within the City, . but carried into a clean Place, into a new Sepulchre where never Any Man Pay before, John 19. 41. So the dead Bodies of all his Saints, when they are fpent and confumed to Afhes, they are regarded and prefer- ved in the Duft by God, as facred Reliques ; and he will raife them up again unto eternal Life. So much for the Burnt - Offering of the Herd,and the Ceremonies ap pertaining to it. There were alto force other A&ions about it, as . that in Pfal. 1 18. 2.7. of binding the Sacrifice with.. Cords, even unto the. Horns of the Altar. But this, as it is not mentioned in this Chapter ; fo
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