The Gofpel oft* e Meat-O riizg. 21 . ral, the Spirit of God in his Graces and Comforts, Ifa. 6t. i. Which Spirit Jefus Chrift did receive above meafure, and from him all Be- lievers in fome degree, do partakeof his anointing. There is, and muff be, this facredOy1 in all our Offerings, the influence of the Spi- rit of God. 3. Frankincenfe. The ufeof this was to make a fweet f/erfume in the Air, when the burning of the other things might have caufed an ill fcent. It figured the acceptablenefs unto God of the Perfons and Ser- vices of his People, through the Mediation and Interceflion of Jefus Chrift : He is fet forth by Pillars of hide, perfumed with Myrrbe and Frantincenfe, with all Powders of the Merchant, Cant. 3.6. And with- out him our Offerings are not acceptable, nor our Sacrifices fweet unto God, fer. 6. 20. Hence there was no Oyl nor Frankincenfe in the Sin Offering, Lev. 5. u. nor in the Jealoufy-Offerings, Numb. 5. i 5. Becaufe though it was for a Memorial, yet it was not to bring the Per- fon, or his Services to remembrance with acceptance before God ; but to bring his Sin to remembrance. 4.. Salt, Verf: 13. Which being required in all their Offerings, and fo in the Burnt Offering, there we fpoke to it,, and (hewed, that is was to teach them the perpetuity of the Covenant of Grace that God, had made with them;. and the wholefòme and favoury carriage and walking of his People. Now put all this together, and it fpells thus much :, That our Meat- Offerings, our good Works, being anointed with the Spirit, and per- fumed with the Incenfe of Chrift's Mediation, are accepted of God, and thatin a Covenant of Salt, through the unchangeable faithfulnefs. of God in the Covenant. So rauch for the Materials of the Meat- Offering, Corn, Oyl, Frank- incenfe, and Salt. 2. The Állions tobe performed about it. And they were Three, yell:. 2 3. r. It mutt be brought to the Prieft. 2. He is to burn a part of it, the Memorial of it before the Lord. 3. The Remnant of it mutt be eaten by the Prieft. r. They were to bring it to the Sons of Aaron the Priefis, verf. 2,.. There was the fame Aaion before in the. Burnt-Offering, and there we (hewed the meaning of it ; that it imports, a voluntary act.. of the Offerer, and a making ufe of Chrift for acceptance, in all our fervices,. and approaches unto God..
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