The Gofpel of the Sin-Ofering. 255 You may fee the Pra&ice of this Ceremony in the SinOffering, at the Confesration of the Priefts, Exod. 29. 14. And as it was burnt without the Camp in their prefent unfixed Po fture: So when the Temple was fixed at ferufalem, it was burnt with- out the Gates of the City. The Apoftle explains it at large, Heb. 13. to, I I, 12, 1 3, 14. and educeth three great Gofpel-Truths andMyfte- ries out of it. 1. That they who ferve the Tabernacle, have no right to eat ofour Altar under the Gofpel, very: to. Our NewTeftament Altar is Chrift. To eat of the Altar, is to partake of the Offerings offered upon it. They that ferve the Tabernacle, that is, the old worldly Tabernacle, Inch as ferve that, that is, fuch as adhere Rill to legal Ways and Ob- fervations, have no right-to Chrift the Altar, and to the Sacrifice he hath offered, and to Salvation by him. Such as cleave to their owns Righteoufnefs, and to their own Wifdom in the Things of God, they deprive themfelves of Communion with Chrift. 2. As the Sin-Offering was burnt without the Camp where they did caft forth the Afhes ; fo Chrift fuffer"ed without the Gates of the City. Theycarriedhim out of Jerufalem to Golgotha, to the Place of dead Aden Sculls, Matth. 27. 33. Andwhen they were come unto a Place gilled Gol- gotha, that is tofay, a Place ofa Skull, which is called, Luke 23.33. Cal- vary. That as it is faid of the Sin Offering in the Place where they pour out the Afhes, there (hall it be burnt, Lev. 4. 12. So Chrift fuf= fered without the Gate, Heb. i3. 12. 3. This Ceremony teacheth alfo the Myftery of our Communion. with Chrift, in bearing his Reproach, Heb. 13. 13. For it was becaufe Sin was upon the Offering, which carries. Shame along with it, that it was carried forth. Malefa&ors were to be put to Death without the Camp, fo the Blafphemer, Lev. 24. 14.. fo the prefumptuous Profaner of the Sabbath, Numb. 15. 35. If you cannot be content to bear the Difg=races and Reproaches- of the World, to be accounted a Pimple Heretick, a Fanatick, no trine Son of the Church ; but a Schifmatick againft the Church, and a Re- bel againft the King, an Enemy to Cefar,*for fo they faid of Chrift;. you refufe to go forth with him out of the Camp, bearing his Re- proach. The Apoftles were accounted the very Filth of the World, ]IepexaMppae7e. Tú .xócNt". 1 Cor. 4. 9. to 13. navlaP aepl4nlxot,lydswpn filch as by fweepiïlg is gathered together, faith the- marginal Note. zó asnav quod detergerefigniftcat, Beza. Wo unto you when all Alen ¡hall 'peak weü.of you ; for fo d:dtheir Fathees>to the falfe Prophets, Luke 6. 26. To theft add, t;< 44 Whereaa:.,
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=