t TieGoBret of the Meat -Offering. ibamen, a facred ,Effufon, or a pouring out ; from the Verb Nafak, fitdit, effudit. They were not to drink it ; that might have been an occafionof Intemperance andDrunkennefs, there beingdaily and continual Drink- Offerings ; nay, there was no piece of legal Worfhip wherein they were commanded to drink Wine. But there is an exprefs Prohibition of any fuck Right ; Levit. ro. 8, 9. And the Lord fpake unto Aaron, faying, Do not drink Wine or firong Drink, thou nor thy Sons with thee, when you go into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, left you die. Verf, to. And thatyou may pit Difference between holy and unholy, and between un- clean and clean. 4. The fpiritual Myftery of it. Doubtlefs it had much of fpiritual Myftery in it : The Pfalmift calls it, the Cup ofSalvation. Pfal. 1 L6.13. 1will take the Cup ofSalvation, and call upon the Name of the Lord, for what other Adminiftration under the Law that Expreffion could re- late unto, betides this, I know not : There being no other Ufe ofCups of Wine amongft them in the Worfhip of God, but only in thefe Drink-Offerings whereofwe fpeak. Three Things I fhall briefly note. . Wine in typical and allegorical Scriptures, doth fometimes fig- .tify the1oysand-ConfAlations of the Holy Gho/t : For Wine rejoyces and cheers the Heart, Pfal. tog.. 15. Wine that makethglad the Heart ofMan. Therefore the Apofile, Ephef 5.18. fo fpeaks, Be not inebriated with Wine wherein is excefs, but be ye filled with the Spirit. The Apoftles Antithefisbetween Wine and the Spirit intimates this ; Cant. I. 2. Thy Love is better than Wine. And Verf. 4.. We will be glad and rejoyce in thee, we will remember tby Love more than Wine. And Cant. 2. 5. Stay me with Flagons, comfort me with Apples, for 1 am fick of Love. Stay me with Flagons, that is, with Flagons of Wine. Metonymia fubjeli, con- tinens pro contento. As in the Supper the Cup is put for the Wine, This Cup is my Blood, that is, the Wine in the Cup : So here flay ene with Flagons, theprays for the Senfe of his Love. 2. We find the Saints pouring out their Blood in the Caufe of Chrift, compared to a DrinkOffering, Phil. 2.2.7. 2 Tim. 4.6. And fo in an higher, in a much higher Senfe-the Blood of Chrift is re- prefented by Wine in the Sacrament of the Supper, as his Fleth by Bread: And fo the Meat and Wine in the Meat-Offering, may alfo reprefent his Flefh and Blood. 3. It lhadowed forth the Lord's Acceptance of his People, Shall 1 lea my Wine wherewith I cheer both God and Man ? Judg.9. 13. that °is, which is pleating to God in Sacrifice. -Hence when the Lord dares
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