The Gopel of the Meat-0, e ing.. 5 the myftery of the Meat- Offering, the Scripture is exprefs : a Sam 3. 14. The Iniquity ofEli's Hoare (hall not be purged or expiated nary rtrPull with Sacrifice, or Offering for ever. Neither by flain Sa- crifices, nor by Meat Offerings for ever : So r Sam. 26. 19. If the Lord have furred thee up againft me, let him accept a Mincha. And Pfal. 40. 6. fpeaking of propitiatory Sacrifices, he faith, Zebach and Mincha ; (lain Sacrifices and Meat-Offerings thou wouldft not. The Apoftle applies this to the fufferings of Chrift, for the Expia- tion of our Sins, Heb. to. 5, r o. Therefore when Chrift was come, he did caufe both Zbach and Mincha to ceafe, Dan. 9. 27. both the, (lain Sacrifices, and the Meat Offerings. And it is exprefly faid of the poor Man's Meat-Offering for his Trefpafs, that it (hall make Atonement, Lev. ;5. r r, 13.. This is thought to be fome account of the Apoftle's limitation, Heb.: 9: 22. where he faith, That under the Law almoft all things were purged by Blood. For it was not always-done by flain Sacrifices, _ but fometimes by Meat -Offerings. And as the Scripture is clear for it ; fo indeed the thing it Pelf fpeaks. For there was in the Meat- Offerings an exprefs adumbration of both the parts of that juftifying Righteoufnefs of Jefus Chrift, by which we are reconciled to God. His Sufferings or pa ive Obedience. For there was a deftroying of the Mincha by Fire,and pouring it forth; as well as of the Zebacbim by Fire and Blood. Here was alfo`ar adumbration of his alive Obedience, or fulfilling all Righteoufnefs, whichwas his Meat and,Drink ; John 4. 34. My Meat, is to do the Will ofhim that fent me, and to finifh his work. I know fome have made fome queftion of this, Whether the Meat-Offering were Propitiatory, or only Euchariflicai ? But you fee how clear it is, both from the Scripture, and from. the Analogy of the thing it felf. 2. The Meat-Offering fignified alto the Perfons -of Believers, who (through Chrift) are fanaified and cleanfed to be a pure Oblation or Meat-Offering unto God. They are compared in Scripture to a Meat and Drink-Offering; Ifa: 66. 20. They ¡hall bring their Brethrenfor a Mincha or Meat-Offering unto the , Lord, which was fulfilled in the Con- verfion of . the Gentiles, as the Apoffle fpeaks, Rom. 1 5 , t 6 . and in the Sufferings of the Saints efpecially when they fuffer unto Death and Martyrdom in the Caufe of Chrift. They are a Drink-Offering to the- Lord, exceedingly accepted of him ; Philip. 2.1 7. Tea, if ,l be offered up as a Drink- Offering (fi - pro libamento offerar Beza) upon the Sacri., ftce and Service ofyour Faith, I joy and rejoice with you ail. ° 2 Tim. 4.6. For. I am, now ready to be offered, carirki44,, and the time-of n y dcp rtur.e is ar.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=