14-8 The '3ofpelof the Sin-Offering. It is not to be reftrarfied only to fuck Sins of his, as wherein he` e- duceth and draws the People afide to Sin with him, or whereby he brings publick Judgments upon them, as force have rendred it, f de- linquere fecerit populum ; and others, f deliquerit in populi noxam. For then here were no Relief for him, as to all his other failings in the Difcharge andExecution of his Trull and Office in the 'HoufeofGod, and in his own private and perfonal Walkings. Therefore it muff be underftood in the largeft and moll comprehen- five Senfe, for any Sinor Failing of Weaknefs in any of the Priefts. Let him bring a young Bullock for his Sin-Offering. 2.. For the whole Congregation:a Bullock, Verf. 13. the whole Body of the People colleaively taken : The fame that was appointed for the Prieft, though with Some Difference in the Rites. There the Prieft, but here the Elders, as in the Name of the People, being to lay their Hands upon the Head of the Sacrifice. 3. For the Ruler a Kid, a Male, Verf. 22. Nail, Principes, quaff ela- tusfiler alios ; fromNafa,exaltavit, tulit, that is, any Civil Ruler that is raifed or lifted up above others. TheWord is ufed, not only con- cerningKings and chief 'Magif rates, as Ezek. 34.24. but concerning inferior Rulers alfo ; Exod. r6. 22. mind all the Rulers of the Congrega- tion came and told Mofes, &c. Numb. 16.2. 4. For any ofthe Common People, their Sin-Offering is a Kid, aFemale, Verf. 27. or elfe a Lamb, a Female, Verf. 32. to the End of the Chapter. Now from this fecond Law of the Sin-Offering, namely, this various Matter of it for fo many fortsof Perfons that Sin : We may learnrthefe Inftruaions before we proceed to the third Law. i. That the anointed Prieff may err. Therefore the Ri¡hop ofRome if he were an Officer of Chrift, he might err and mifs his Mark ; tho' being Antichrift, it may begranted to him that he feldom errs from Iris Scope, it being-to 'promote the Devil's Kingdom; and to ob- ßtruá the Kingdom, and opprefs the Churchof Chrift. I mnft confefs I have wondred at this Error of Popery , that the Pope cannot err : I wonder, why he may not err in Doctrine, as well as in Life ? Why may he not deny God in Words, as well as in his Works ? That he may and doth err in his Life, and that his Works are Evil, themfelves have not the Impudence to deny : Therefore he may err inhis Faith, as well as in his Life ; in his Words, as well as in his Works. And if youdo but look into a weekly News-book, you will ever and anon find mentionof the Pope's Nepbews,what theydo, Land what:Preferments he provides for them. But who are thefe? It is fit
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