The Gofpel ofthe Sin-Offering 253 ,. There be alfo (even Candlefticks, feven Churches. And indeed the whole Book doth analyfe and divide it felf into three (evens : Seven Seals, fcven Trumpets, and (even Vials. The feven Seals, holding forth the Rate of the Church under hea- thenifh Perfecution, with the iffue thereof in the three firft Centuries. The feven Trumpets under Antichrift,.and other inteftine Troubles. And then finally, . (even Vials of Wrath for the ruine of Antichrift, and other Enemies; for the Churches Profperity. From all which you fee, that there is fomething of myftery in the number of feven. And in this Ceremony, it teacheth us the full and perfeft cleanfing and atonement we have in the Blood of Chrift ; and that our Sins need' much cleanfing, much purgation,.Heb. 9. 13, 14. - Heb. 10. 14. For by one Offering, he bath perfelled for ever them that are fan(tified. 3: We may learn further That Sprinkling tis fignificatsve enough of the fpiritual cleanfing, and perfct virtue that is in the Blood of Ye[u Cbrft. For the Prieft was not to pour out the Blood upon the. Vail, nor to wafh the Vail in the Blood, but only to dip hi > Finger, and fo to fprinkle the ball with it, . l là. 5'2. i 5. i Pet. r. 2. Heb. 12. 24. 2. Another part of the Blood was to be put upon the Horns of the Golden Altar of Incenfe,ver.7. And again, ver. 18. So in the Sin-Offering upon the great Day of Expiation, Lev. 17. t 8, 19. This was ufed only in the (Sin-Offering of Bullocks : but in the Sin -Offering ofKids or Lambs, it was only poured and fprinkled upon the Brazen-Altar, ver. 25. 30134, The Myflery of this Ceremony was this, That Chrift's Intercelfon ie founded in bis own Blood and Satisfaaion. For the Incenfe-Altar was a Type of Prayer : he prays in the virtue of his own Blood and Suffer- ings, and by the Merit thereof, heprevails with God for us. And it is upon the fame Account,that our Prayers alfo do prevail and find acceptance with the Lord; it is becaufe the Incenfe-Altar is fprink- led with Blood. We pray in his Name, and we defire nothing in our Prayers, but what he bath deferved and procured by his Merits ô See Rev. 8. 3. There was given him much Incenfe, that he fhould offer it with the Prayers of all Saints upon the Golden-Altar. And 9. 13, 14, &e. I heard 'a Voice from the four Horns of the Golden- Altar. The Golden- Altar is the Altar of Incenfe : A Voice is heard from thence, as in anfwer to Prayer, commanding to loofa the four Angels : By which Interpreters underftand the Turks. But did ever any Chriftian pray for the coming in of the Turks' upon the Chriftian World ? No, but God anfwers the Prayersof his People oftentimes by wonderful and terrible things, in Rghteoufnef, as Pfal
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