The Gofpel of the Peace-Offering. 231. verf. 9, TO And again, laftly, concerning the Goat, vol. r4, t5. Only with this difference, That in the Peace-Offring of Lambs, there is added the whole Rump ; verf. 9. The fat thereof and the whole Rump, it (hall he take off hard by the Back -bane. Whereof fame Interpreters . give this Account, That this in force kind of Sheep is very great and fat, efpecially in thole parts of the World. As Pliny, lib. 8. cap. 48. Therefore it is here commanded to be burnt upon the Altar, with the other Fat and Inwards : So Aynfw. in loc. Others give this Account of it, That there is not the meaneft part of the Craature, but God hath a Right unto it : And though it be a thing never fo contemptible in it felf, God can make it honourable and facred, by applying it to his Service. As the Rump here in the Sa- crifice of Peace-Offerings. And fo the Fore-skin in the Sacrament of Circumcifion, Gen. 17. 1 t. Thus our own Annotators in Lev. 3. 9. Thefe parts of the Peace - Offering mult, be offered : Tal ha yola in holocateflum, for a Burnt-Offering:; as force render it : that is, thefe parts were in fiend of the whole, and had the life and Virtue of the whole Burnt-Offering. Here is pars pro toto, a Synecdochical Offer- ing, as we shall meet with many fuck kind of Adminiittrations under the Law, wherein a part is equivalent and accepted as inftead of the whole. Others interpret it thus, Tal hayola; that is, upon the Burnt -Offer- ing, 'eiri 7 oholovzcctAxTu, as being added to it. The Burnt-Offering was offered firft, before any other Oblation ; and then .thus and other Offerings, fuperadded to it. And fo we may learn this out of it, That we are firft to be reconciled unto God by the death of his Son, applied and re- ceived of us by Faitb, before any Oblation of ours can be acceptable to him. This facrificed part of the Peace - Offering is called the Bread of the Altar, and the Bread of God, verf. r r. Numb. 28. 2. My Offering and my Bread for my Sacrifices made by Fire, 'hall ye obferve to offer to. me. They are called his Bread, becaufe the Fire of the Altar did con- fume and eat them up And fo the Juftice of God devours and feeds upon the Sinner.. The fiercenefs of the Wrath of God againftSin and Sinners burning as Fire, and devouringSouls ; and the necellity of fatisfa1.ion and atone. ment by the Blood of Chrift, in order to our Peace with God; are the general Truths held forth and taught in all the Sacrifices, and fo in this of Peace- Offerings. z. God and the Altar being thus fed and fatisfied in the firft Place; the refit of the Peace-OfFering was divided between the Prieft and the Owner that brought it, to be eaten by theory
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