262 The Gofpel of the Trefpafs-Offering. Atonement withGod there. There is no Expiation ofSin in our Amend- ment or Reformation, but in the Blood of Christ. 3. The third Cafe is General, concerning Sins unknown, and Sins of Weaknefs, Verf. 17. 18, t ç. And the Remedy provided is a Ram. Though he miff it not, yet he is guilty and (hall bring a Ram. That is, when it comes to his Know- ledge. The former Cafes, Verf. 4. and t 5. fpeak alfo of Ignorance. But force state the Difference thus, That this is for Sins never known certainly, but in a doubt and fufpenfe. There is to be a doubtful Trefpafs-Offering, vid. Ainfw. in loc. 4. The fourth Cafe is in Cap. 6. to Verf. 8. wherein there is a bundle ofgrievous Sins put together, all againft Light and Knowledge. 1. Injustice and Theft. 2. Force and Violence. 3. Lying, Fraud and Deceit. 4. Perjury, or Swearing falllyabout it. E Ifa Soul Sin and commit a Trefpafs againft the Lord, and lie againft his Neighbour' For Sins againft our Neighbour, are alfo Sins against God. Pfal. 5 t . 4. Againff thee only, that is, thee chiefly. For he had finned againft Vriah and against Bathfhebah, and had done themboth irreparable wrong. But that which lay heaviest upon him, was the Injury done to God, 1have finned, Luke 15.18. againft Heaven, that is, againft the God of Heaven. The Remedy appointed is Three -fold ; the two former are not for SatisfaEtion to God, but to the Party injured, without which there can be no effeEtual Application of the Atonement to thy Confcience. 1. Reffitution, Verf. q.. This is the ground of that faying, non remit- titur furtum, ni/i reflituatur ablatum : The Theft is not forgiven, with- out Reftitution. 2. Addition ofa fifth Part, Verf. 5. This is when the Sinner out of the Convi&ion of his own Confcience, doth it of his own Accord. For if he were Convicted by the Magistracy and P iblick Justice of the Land, he muff reftore Four-fold in force Cafes, and double in other Cafes : See Exod. 22. i, CO 4. 3. ARamfor a Trefpafs-Offering, Verf. 6. Some general Inftru&ions from the whole. r. We may here learn and fee in the Trefpafs-Offering, and the Laws and Ordinances thereof, howmuch there is of the Will of God in the Matters of his Worfhip; for there are divers Things in this, as well as in the other Offerings and Sacrifices, whereof there can no Account be
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