-0)6 The Gofpel of the. Burnt-00ring. We are to note here what Birds they were; and what were the Cert. monïal .Aîtions about them. The Birds were not Ravens and Vultures and filch like ; but Doves and Pigeons and Sparrows, at leaft in that peculiar Cafe of the Leprofy, Levar. 14. The Dove is often commended in the Scripture, for Inno- cency and Harmleffnefs ; Matth. io. r 6. Be ye wife as Serpents, and harm- lefs as Doves. The Spirit appeared as a Dove, Mat. 3. 16. So are the Saints, Pfal. 74. 19. deliver not the Soul ofthy,Turtle Dove and often in theSong of Solomon, my Love, my Dove. All the practical Appli- cation I (hall make of it, (hall be this ; Believers themfelves are living Sacrifices unto God : But if thy Sacrifice be accepted, thou mutt be a Dove, not a Birdof Prey, but harmlefs as Doves. The ceremonious Actions about them, aim at the fame general Scope 'with the ceremonious AAions about the Burnt- Offering of Cattel, whereof we fpoke before, and divers of them are the fame. There be only threediffering Ceremonies in the Burnt-Offering of Fowls, where- of weare now to fpeak. i. That the Prieft ¡bail wring off his Head, verf.'r 5. which the old Geneva Note explains thus TheHebrew Word lignifies to pinch off with the Nail, ?Dim ungue fecuit. It occureth only here, and in Levit. 5. 8. where the fame Rule is given concerning the Trefpafs - Offering. The Rule concerning theBurnt-Offering of Cattel, is only to kill them ; that is, with the facrificing Knife to cut the Throat, and fo let out the Life and Blood of the Beaft, and then cut off the Head, and cut all the Parts afunder,, as verf. 5. 8. The reafon of this Difference in the outward Ceremony, feems to be from the different Matter of the Sacrifice : Both aiming at the fame general Scope, viz. to fhadow forth the Sufferings of Jefus Chrift, and theViolence done to him for and by our Sins. For as the Blood of the Turtle Dove was wrung out with Violence: So was the Blood of Jefus Chrift, when he made his Soul an Offering for Sin. Some note 'further, that the Head was not to be quite wrung off, as the Parts were to be divided afunder ; of which by and by. 2. The Prieft was to pluck away his Crop, with bis Feathers, andcaft Wide the Altar, on the Eaft part by the Place of the Afhes, verf. r6. Why to the Eaft ? They had a Place on the Eaft Side of the Court, to which they carried forth the Afhes. Becaufe this was the furtheff off from the Holy of Holies : For the Temple flood direáiy Well, as you may fee Ezek. 8: 16. Which the Lord did in Oppofition to the coitnon Idolaters of thofe Times, who were wont to Worfhip to a-
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