The Gofpel ofthe Meat-Offering. 221 read' of any Drink-Offering alone, but only in Conjun&ion with. Meat-Offerings, and SlaughterOfferings.. As Numb. 15. 5. And the fourth part of a Hin of Winefor a Drink -Offering (halt thou prepare, with the Burnt- Offering, or Sacrifice for one Lamb.. And verf, 7. For a Ram, thou ¡halt offer for a Drink-offering the third part ofa Hin. And again, verf it. For a Bullock. And Numb. 2.8.. 7. The DrinkOffering thereof (hall be the fourth part of an Hinfor one Lamb, &c. Levit. 23.18. They (hall befor a Burnt-Offering unto the Lord, with their Meat - Offerings, and their Drink- Offerings. And in Hezekia's Time, when he purged the Houle of God, it is faid 2-Chron. 29. 35. The Burnt-Offerings were in abundance, with the Fat of the Peace-Offerings, and the Drink-Offeringsfor every Burnt- Offering, I (hall fpeak to three Things upon the Drink-Offering., I. The Matter of it. 2. The Rite and manner of Oblation.. 3. The Myftery of it. 1. Firft then for the Matter ofit, it wets Wine; Numb.15.5 Wine foi a Drink - Offering (halt thou prepare. Called Shekar in Numb. 28. 7. from whence the Greek $ikera, that is; a ftrong inebriating. Wine; our Tranflators here render it ftrong Wine. Hence. Hof. 9. q.. They (hall not offer Wine-Offerings to the Lord.. Hence 7udg.9. 13. in Nthaes Parable the Vine faith, fhould I leave my. Wine which cheereth God and Man ? How doth Wine cheer God? It cannot befaid. to cheer God otherwife, than in Offerings and Sacrifices. TheHeathen fell into an horrible Corruption, as to this ; for they mingled Blood, in their idolatrous and fuperftitious. Rage, in Drink Offerings, whereto the Pfalmif.alludes, Pfal. 16. q... and declares how he abominates fuch a Pracife ; Their Sorrows (hall be multiplied that ha- ften or give Gifts to another God : Their Drink- `fferings ofBlood will 8:` not offer: It is not unlike the Health- Drinkers of our Times, ofwhom you may have heard ; fome (in their ragingProfanenefs) have ming- led their own Blood with Wine, and fo have drunk it in Healths to the Devil, and to the Confufion of Sion, and Sion's King.. 2. The Rite andmannerofOblation was, by pouring itforth before the Lord, Numb. 28. 7. In the holy Place (halt thou .. caufe flrong Wine to be,: poured out unto the Lord for a Drink Offering, that is, upon the Altar fay fome, but not upon the Fire ;,. or as others, befde.the Altar : For it is likely the Wine of the Drink-Offering was to be poured forth, where the Blood of the flaughtered Sacrifices was poured forth : But that _ was at the bottom of the Altar, as you have formerly heard upon Cap, a. withCap. 8.15. ,pag. 252 Hence it bath its Name in Hebrew .Ned..
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