212 The Gofpel of the Meat-Ofering. Wafers, verf 4.. Or baked, verf: 5,.6. Or fryed :a a frying Pan, ver. Or Firft Fruits ; not .fo much as grinding it into Meal or Flower, only dryed and beaten, verf. This Meat-Offering of Firft Fruits was of Barley : Becaufe that was first ripe in that Country : Therefore the name of the first Month in the Year was called Abib, Exod. 13. 4. quaß menfis fpicarum, the Month of Ears of Corn, Out.of all which Corn - matter of the Meat- Offering, I (hail mark Three things, 1. It muff be fine Flower, purged from. the Bran. Which thews the pure effete of Chriff, and of all Chrifìians, with their Services in him, being purged, as it were, from the Bran of natural. Corruption ;. Aynfw. in loc. 1fa. 66. 20. it appears, their manner was to bring them in a clean Vefl'el. We fhould labour in all our Offerings andSacrifices to be pure and clean in his fight, and to come with purged and re- fined 'Spirits : God mutt have the belt. As the Flower muff be fine and not courfe; fo in the Burnt- Offering the Beaffs were to be with- out Blemifh : And whatfoever they offered to God muff be of the belt : All betokening the Purity and Perfe&ion of him, of whom- they were Types; to wit, Y'efus Chrift; and befeeming the Excel- lency of him to whom they were offered :: Engl. Annotat, on Numb, 28. ult. 2. There was a Meat-Offering of Firft-Fruits. What this is,. the Apostle informs us, 1 Cor. 15. zo. Chrift is the Firft- Fruits, by whom the whole Lump is fantiifed. There may be alfo fome further accotiimo- dations of it, whereof we may fpeak further, when we come to the Feaft of Firft-Fruits. 3. It muff be ground, (ifted, baked, fryed, beaten, and the like ; force . filch bruiting and contufion of it there mutt be. So Chrift was briied for our Iniquities, and beaten with ftripes for our Sins, Ira. 53. 5. Where- in his Members are partakers with him, Col. i. 24. Hence Ignatius fweetly and fpiritually, when he was to fuller Martyrdom, by being devoured of wild Bealts, he fpeaks how his body was the Lord's Corn, and muff be ground by the Teeth of the wild Beafts, to be prepared for the Lord ; As in the Meat- Offering,, the Corn was to pals under fome filch preparation. 2,. The fecond Ingredient in the Meat-Offering,. was Oyl, very 4, , 7, 15.. The quantity of Oyl is not expreffed, but the meaning- was,, there fhould be a quantum fufficit, a fit proportion of it mingled with the Flower. Much life of Oyl there was under the Law, and. ft.we. Nall have .occafion.to fpeak further to it. It fignified.in.gene- ral,,
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