.2, j.6 Th.e.Gofpeiof the Meat-Offering. at hand. The Note upon it is this, I am ready to be offered for aDrink- Offering ; and he allude.th to the pouring out of Blood or Wine, which was ufed in Sacrifices. 3. The Meat -Offering fignified not only their Perfons, but their Ser- vices, thofe Fruits of Grace and Good Works that Believers do per- form, whether towards God or towards Man ; which are often com- pared toFruits, and to Meat and Drink. And the Meat- Offering you know, confided of the Fruits of the Earth, of things to be eat and drunk. Good Works are called Fruits, Phil. I. 6. and again Phil. 4. 17 And Meat and Drink, John 4.32. 1 have Meat to eat that ye know not of; and what was that ? See verf. 34.. My Meat is to do the Will of him that fent me, and to fini/h his Work. As theMeat-Offering confined of the Fruits of the Earth, things to be eat and drunk. To instance in particulars. t. Prayer. Pfal. í4.I.2. Let my Prayer be fet before thee as Incenfe, and the lifting up of my Hands as theEvening Mincha, or Meat-Offering : So when the Lord told the Yews, 1 will not accept a Mincha, or Meat- Offeringat your hands; he addeth, that inftead of them, Mal. t. Io, I I. From the riling of the Sun to the going down of the fame, Incenfe fhall be offered to my Name, and a pure Mincha, a pure Meat - Offering; which is fulfilled when Men pray every where, lifting up pure Hands, &c t Tim. 2. 8. 2. Praife, and thankful acknowledgment of God's Goodnefs and Sove! raignty, and the intereft God hath io us, and in all our Comforts and Enjoyments; which, as they come from him, are thus acknowledged by way of Chief-Rent in Sacrifice. This final] Rent (as a Pepper-corn in fame Leafes) being an acknowledgment of their Homage, that he is the great Landlord and Owner of all the Good they enjoyed : There- fore while his Worfhip was neglected, he blafted them in all their out- ward Comforts, Hag. T. 9, to, et. But when they acknowledged him, he remembred them; Cap. 2. verf. 19. And left a Meat-Offering and a Drink-Offering in the houfe of the Lord, as Yoel 2. 14. This is a fecoud Duty taught in the Meat-Offering. 3. Some conceive here was a prefiguration alfa of the Sacrament of the Lord'sSupper And indeed fomethingof Analogy doth appear : For the Meat-Offering did confia of Bread and Wine, as the Lord'sSupper doth. And as the Meat was eaten by the Priefts : So is the Bread by Believers, who are Gofpel-Priefts. But yet, as is all Similitudes and Types ; befide the Analogy, there be alto fundry difproportions and difparities, between the Type and the thing typified; fo here.: For the Meat -Offering was bath a Feaft and a Sacrifice,
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