The Gofpel of the Peace-Offering. 235 In the Third day the unclean Perfon was to purify himfelf ; but if he purify not himfelf the Third day, then the Seventh day he shall not be clean, Numb. 19. 12. In the Third day Hezekiah went up into the Houfe of Lord, and re- covered from the Sentence of Death, 2 Kings 29. 5. Hof 6. 2, After two days be will revive us, in the Thirdday he will raife us up, and we fhall live inUs fight. With many other memorable things : All which in- timate fomething of mystery in the Third day. And the greatest Dif- penfation that ever was upon that day, was the Refurreaionof Jefus Christ from the Dead, after he had lain part of Three days in the Grave. Then he was perfeaed, and had no more to do in way of Sacrificeand Satisfaaion for our Sins as after the Third day there was no more of the Peace-Offering remaining. 3. A third Ceremony in the Peace-Offering was this, That they were to offer Leavened Bread with it, Cap. 7. verf. i 3. This is the more re- markable ; for that in all their other Sacrifices, Leaven was ufually very itridly and feverely forbidden : But here it is required. Here we may learn first, That it is not the nature of the thing it Pelf, but meerly the Will of God, whichmakes a thing good or evil in his Wor- fhip. To put Leaven into any other Offering, it makes the Sacrifice odious unto God, and like a fmoak in his Noftrils all the day ; but if it pleafe him to require it in the Peace- Offering, then it mutt be ufed. So for Honey he forbids it in other Sacrifices, Lev. 2. II. But in the Firft Fruits they were to offer Honey ; z Chron. 31. $. The Chil- drenofIfrael brought in abundance of the Firft Fruits of Corn, Wine, Oyl, and Honey, and of all the Increafe of the Field. God herein manifefting his Authority, and the fupremacy of his Will. If it had pleafed our Lord Jefus Chrift to command us to fign Men in his Name, with the fagn of the Crofs, it would have been a Duty, and a blefléd thing to do it : And if he had not commanded us to wafh Men with Water in his Name, it would have been a finful and an unlawful Adminiftration to Baptize. More particularly, Leaven is taken both in a good, and in a bad Senfe : And I find Interpreters do accommodate and apply it both ways, as to the Sacrificeof the Peace.Offerings. 1. In the good Senfe : Thus our Saviour ufeth it in his Parable ; Mat 13. 33. The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto Leaven, which a Woman took and hid in three Meafures of Meal, till the whole was leavened. And you have the fame Parable recorded again by Luke, Cap. 13. 21. The Lord makesufe of Leaven hereto teach andhold forth untous the inward and H h 2 fecret
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